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Jason Kidd is a professional basketball coach and former player who is the head coach for the Dallas Mavericks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Widely regarded as one of the greatest point guards of all time, Kidd was a 10-time NBA All-Star, a six-time All-NBA Team member, and a nine-time NBA All-Defensive Team member. He won an NBA championship in 2011 as a member of the Dallas Mavericks and was a two-time gold medal winner in the Olympics with the U.S. national team in 2000 and 2008. He was inducted as a player into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. In October 2021, Kidd was honored as one of the league’s greatest players of all time by being named to the NBA 75th Anniversary Team.
Kidd’s ability to pass and rebound made him a regular triple-double threat, and he retired ranked third all-time in the NBA for regular season triple-doubles with a career total of 107 and third in playoff triple-doubles with a career total of 11. He ranks third on the NBA all-time list in career assists and second on the NBA all-time list in career steals.
On June 28th, 2001, after five seasons in Phoenix in which the team made the playoffs each year, Kidd was traded, along with Chris Dudley, to the New Jersey Nets for Stephon Marbury, Johnny Newman, and Soumaila Samake. Kidd joined the franchise as the team was constructed around a sophomore Kenyon Martin, veterans Kerry Kittles and Keith Van Horn, along with rookies Richard Jefferson, Jason Collins, and Brandon Armstrong coming from the draft-day trade for the seventh pick Eddie Griffin. The 2001–02 season saw Kidd lead the Nets to a 52–30 finish, a 26-game improvement from the season before and the first 50-win season in the franchise’s NBA history. He was voted to the All-NBA First Team and finished second to the Spurs’ Tim Duncan in MVP voting.
Under Kidd’s guidance, the young Nets team prospered through the playoffs, won the Eastern Conference title and advanced to the franchise’s first-ever appearance in the NBA Finals. Along the way, they had some memorable moments including a double overtime victory against the Indiana Pacers in the decisive Game 5. Indiana’s Reggie Miller forced the first overtime with a 35-foot three-pointer at the buzzer and the second one with a two-handed dunk, but the Nets eventually survived and beat Indiana 120–109. Kidd scored 20 of his then playoffs-best 31 points in the fourth quarter and overtimes. After defeating the Charlotte Hornets 4–1 in the second round, the Nets then faced the Boston Celtics in the conference finals. In that series Kidd and the Nets experienced the biggest fourth quarter collapse in the playoffs’ history, when the Celtics came back from a 21-point deficit to win the pivotal Game 3, taking a 2–1 series lead.[27] However, the Nets then won three consecutive games, while Kidd averaged a triple double for the entire series. In the NBA Finals, the Nets were swept in four games by Shaquille O’Neal and Kobe Bryant’s Los Angeles Lakers.
New Jersey enjoyed another stellar season under Kidd’s leadership in the 2002–03 season, during which the team finished 49–33 and reached the NBA finals once again. Kidd had his highest scoring season with 18.7 points per game and led the league in assists with 8.9 per game. This time Kidd was selected to the All-NBA Second Team. In the playoffs after splitting the first four games with the Milwaukee Bucks, the Nets recorded a 10-game winning streak, while sweeping the Celtics and the Detroit Pistons on the way to their second consecutive NBA Finals. In the Finals, New Jersey lost to Tim Duncan’s San Antonio Spurs in six games, even though the series was tied after the first four games.
Featured is a Jason Kidd New Jersey Nets Jersey with everything pressed on signed by Hall of Famer, Jason Kidd. The Jersey was meant to resemble the New Jersey Nets Mitchell & Ness 2006/07 Hardwood Classics Swingman Jersey. The Jersey has Mitchell and Ness Tags, but is not an authentic Mitchell and Ness Jersey. The 10-Time NBA All-Star signed the back number ‘5″ in black. The autograph includes an official PSA/DNA hologram for authenticity purposes.
***This Jersey has Mitchell and Ness Tags, but is not an authentic Mitchell and Ness Jersey.
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