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My Take
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.
Overview
Kenneth Smith (born March 8, 1965), nicknamed "the Jet", is an American sports commentator and former professional basketball player who played for six teams during his 10-year career in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He won back-to-back NBA championships with the Houston Rockets in 1994 and 1995.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- 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)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Pisces / Snake
- Origin
- Queens, New York, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- 190 cm
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- basketball player / sports commentator
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Archbishop Molloy High School
- University
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Awards & achievements
- 1988 NBA All-Rookie Team
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
Basketball player — see all → · Sports commentator — see all → · More people from United States →
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.