NET NOTES
Jason Kidd went to the doctor again yesterday. And at this point, no news is good news.
Actually, there was some good news as the Nets’ All-Star point guard indicated he still intends to play in the playoffs, a scenario that has been under some doubt of late.
There was no change in the status of Kidd’s ailing left knee, team officials said, but Kidd claimed his intention is to be ready for the first round.
“Yeah, I hope so, unless something changes,” he said.
Kidd offered that no one has told him he would not be ready. Kidd sat his sixth straight game last night with what is being called a “bruised left knee, noting he is “just rehabbing, that’s all.”
Coach Lawrence Frank says he won’t allow himself to look ahead to what or who will be available in the playoffs, looking instead at what’s on hand – “Right now we’re planning on our team the way it is,” he said. And he won’t get all giddy by what appears to be a favorable doctor’s report.
“Good,” was Frank’s summation of Kidd’s morning doctor’s appointment. “There’s nothing new. It’s basically the same path we’ve been taking. We still have to find the best possible remedy, just kind of be as proactive as possible, but yet there’s nothing really to say right now … It’s just, what avenue are you going to take to relieve the pain?”
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Kenyon Martin on the prospects of playing the Knicks in the playoffs: “I don’t care, man. You know me. It’d be cool for y’all. It’d be cool for the area. It’d be great for the area, us playing in the playoffs. It’d be exciting, definitely that. Had they ever played in the playoffs before?”
Yes. In 1994 and 1983 first rounds. The Knicks took them, 3-1, in ’94, swept them 2-0 in ’83.
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Nets’ first rounder Nenad Krstic has changed agents and selected Davis Bauman of SFX. The Nets are hopeful that the 7-0 Krstic will be able to join them for their summer league games in Orlando in July.
Nets face Wizards in Washington tomorrow. . . . Nets set rebounding as a prime objective last night. Friday in Boston, they were clobbered by nine off the boards, giving up 14 offensive boards. Celtics were next-to-last in the league in rebounding.