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Filed under: Nets, Mavericks, NBA Rumors, Dallas, New York

As assumed since Devean George got his monkey wrench on, the heart of the Jason Kidd trade still beats (pending all that sure-to-be-whitewashed Jerry Stackhouse stuff). Marc Stein of ESPN (who has owned this story, by the way) quotes Nets exec Rod Thorn about the likelihood of eventual consummation, with or without Devean. "There are a lot of different scenarios that might be feasible," Thorn told reporters Friday.We laid those out Wednesday night; it appears convincing George to relent is the preferred option, with a golden handshake for Keith Van Horn as the firewall. Stein reports George and agent Mark Bartelstein spoke with NJ officials at length, though nothing seems to have come from that yet.

One other nibble: We mentioned yesterday that Devean was delusional if he thought keeping his Bird rights would actually ...

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