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But as good as he was in his brief stint, questions remain whether he is the player to best complement the Anthony and Amare Stoudemire. Perhaps that would be Kidd, who has played with both on USA Basketball teams and teamed with Chandler on the Mavericks' 2011 NBA championship team.
Chandler said he was talking to Kidd throughout the summer about him coming to New York, but thought it was a long shot.
"People say things about his age, but with a guy like Jason Kidd you can throw his age out of the window because not only is he capable of doing great things still on the basketball court, but he's invaluable off," Chandler said. "Locker room, huddles, film, I mean he's going to be invaluable to our team."
The Knicks have other decisions to make at guard. Landry Fields, the starting shooting guard most of the last two years and Lin's best friend on the team, has agreed to an offer sheet with Toronto that would pay him about $20 million over three years. New York has to decide whether to accept that and also is trying to keep free-agent JR Smith, who declined the second-year option on his contract but could return.
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