Kidd booed in return to Brooklyn; said he had no relationship with GM King

NEW YORK - Jason Kidd revealed a distrust of the Brooklyn Nets' front office and a desire to get past his messy departure from the franchise in his return to to New York on Wednesday as coach of the Milwaukee Bucks.

Wednesday's game versus the Nets was Kidd's first against the team he led to two NBA Finals as a player and coached to the second round last season.

But he sought the Bucks job in the summer and the Nets eventually let him out of his contract by acquiring a couple of second-round picks from Milwaukee.

Kidd said he was almost out of the position months before his eventual exit.

"I think it really helped me to see what I was dealing with, what type of people I was dealing with." Kidd said, according to Devin Kharpertian of The Brooklyn Game. "Give me a fair chance to coach a team that had injuries, we make a big trade. But I think, understand that they did want to fire me in December. So I think it just shows what type of people I was dealing with."

The people he was dealing with, Kidd said, were ones he wasn't getting along with.

"He’s management," Kidd said about general manager Billy King. "My relationship with Billy was to figure out how to get things right when he was around. So, there was really no relationship."

Kidd, once again, shot down allegations that he was seeking more power within the organization.

"Sometimes things don’t end the right way," Kidd said. "Sometimes things, one side talks, the other side goes about his business. Again, I think you’ve heard from their side, it’s business. It happens."

Kidd was booed when he came onto the floor and again when he was announced as Milwaukee's coach.

-With files from theScore