Kenny Smith

What I respect about Kenny Smith is how cleanly he split his life into two winning chapters. As "the Jet" he won back-to-back NBA titles with the Rockets in 1994 and 1995, and that ring-stamped credibility is exactly what lets him talk the way he does on TV now. A lot of ex-players coast on their playing days; he reinvented himself as a sharp, fast-talking commentator, and that to me is the harder act. The North Carolina pedigree and that 1988 All-Rookie nod tell me the basketball IQ was always there. He just found a second court to use it on.

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Name (English)

Kenny Smith

Name (Japanese)

ケニー・スミス

Reading

けにー・すみす

Born

March 8, 1965 (age 61)

Origin

Queens, New York, United States

Height

190 cm

Occupation

basketball player / sports commentator

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Snake

High school

Archbishop Molloy High School

University

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Awards & achievements

• 1988 NBA All-Rookie Team

• Official sitehttp://www.kennythejetsmith.com
• Xhttps://x.com/thejetontnt
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenny%20Smith
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B1%E3%83%8B%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B9%E3%83%9F%E3%82%B9
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1168929

Tags

• New York
• basketball player
• sports commentator

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.