The Mavs have discussed trade for Carter

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PHOENIX – The New Jersey Nets and Dallas Mavericks have discussed a trade that would reunite Vince Carter and Jason Kidd, with Carter joining the Mavericks, a league source familiar with the discussions said Thursday night.

The proposed deal, which isn’t imminent, would send Carter, Keyon Dooling and Eduardo Najera to the Mavericks for Josh Howard and Jerry Stackhouse.

Nets executives are still reluctant to trade Carter, but are determined to let teams make their best offers all the way to next Thursday’s trade deadline.

The Mavericks have lost guard Jason Terry to a broken hand and desperately need perimeter scoring to stay a contender in the Western Conference. The Nets’ and Mavericks’ front offices engineered the Jason Kidd-Devin Harris blockbuster at the trade deadline a year ago. Nets GM Kiki Vandeweghe and Mavs GM Donnie Nelson have been active trading proposals, league sources say.

Carter, 31, has inspired significant interest throughout the league. The San Antonio Spurs are pursuing him and have discussed a proposal that would include Roger Mason, Bruce Bowen and Fabricio Oberto. While the Spurs also have interest in Detroit’s Rasheed Wallace, a Pistons source says the teams have not had any conversations.

For the Nets, the motivation to move Carter is mostly financial. The franchise is losing tens of millions of dollars a year and moving Carter would clear more cap space for 2010. Nevertheless, Nets president Rod Thorn wants to make the playoffs and believes he has his best chance with Carter on the roster. Carter is in the second season of a five-year extension that pays him close to $80 million through 2012. Only a fraction of the contract’s final season is guaranteed.

Carter is having a good season, averaging 21 points, five rebounds and five assists. The Nets are 24-29 and one game out of the final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference.

Hell Yeah !!! hope this trade will happens

It makes sense for Dallas since they are trying to offload Josh Howard before he does anything else to damage his trade value. If Nets help themselves financially and get rid of Carter, it would be cool to see some sort of Howard-Carter swap happen.

If this happens the Mavericks will look like the Lakers of Shaq-Kobe-Malone and Payton

And they won't became champions. QUOTE THIS

If this happens the Mavericks will look like the Lakers of Shaq-Kobe-Malone and Payton

That team was sick, untill the finals. You can't compare them to the team with Dirk, Kidd, and Carter.

Josh Howard is a good player. Kidd and Carter don't play that good together. Sounds like another "Thank you, Mark Cuban kind of deal".

Sounds like Cuban is just trying to keep Dirk happy by surrounding him with aging stars.

It doesn't strike me as a deal that's going to work out all that well for the Mavericks, no more so than keeping Howard anyway. For both sides it seems like a "Let's trade stars and hope something good happens" kind of deal but if it favours anyone I'd pick it to favour the Nets.