Jason Kidd

What thrills me about Jason Kidd is that he staked his career on making teammates better rather than scoring himself. A 193 cm guard out of San Francisco who had the frame to be a featured star, he chose instead to be the craftsman racking up triple-doubles and lighting up everyone around him. The All-NBA and All-Defensive nods, the leap from Rookie of the Year to head coach, all of it tells the story. To me the most valuable player in basketball is the one who summons wins without needing the spotlight. Kidd saw the floor from a higher vantage point, and connoisseurs revere him for it.

Name (English)

Jason Kidd

Name (Japanese)

ジェイソン・キッド

Reading

じぇいそん・きっど

Born

March 23, 1973 (age 53)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Ox

Origin

San Francisco, California, United States

Height

193 cm

Occupation

basketball player / basketball coach

High school

St. Joseph Notre Dame High School

University

University of California, Berkeley

Awards & achievements

• USBWA National Freshman of the Year
• NBA Rookie of the Year Award
• 1995 NBA All-Rookie Team
• 1999 NBA All-Defensive Team
• 1999 All-NBA Team
• 2000 All-NBA Team
• 2001 NBA All-Defensive Team
• 2001 All-NBA Team

• Official sitehttp://www.jasonkidd.com
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/coachjasonkidd/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason%20Kidd
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%82%A4%E3%82%BD%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AD%E3%83%83%E3%83%89
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q221341

Tags

• California
• basketball player
• basketball coach

Last updated

2026-06-11

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.