Jason Frederick Kidd was born on March 23, 1973 in San Francisco. He was raised in Oakland, California. His parents are Anne and Steve Kidd. He studied at the St. Joseph Notre Dame High School in Alameda. Since that time he has started his long career way in basketball. Under the leadership of coach Frank LaPorte, he reached a Naismith Award and got his first success. Afterwards, he joined the University of California, Berkeley. During the college years he started playing for the Golden Bears team.
In the 1994 he was chosen as the second pick overall by the Dallas Mavericks team. During his debut year in professional basketball, he averaged 11.7 points, 7.7 assists and 5.4 rebounds. In the 1996 he was traded to to the Phoenix Suns along with the other two players. In the next season, his team won 16 games thanks to his an incredible skill.
In the 1998 season he averaged 10.8 assists per game and move out Rod Strickland team from the place of the league's assists leader. The 2000 was not so good for Kidd mostly because of his arrest due to domestic abuse, but on the games he was pretty good and even scored 30-plus points six times during the year. At the end of the 2000-2001 season he was traded again to the New Jersey Nets.
After he signed a new contract he made an impressive start and voted to the All-NBA First Team but finished second, when many critics said that he deserved to win the award. Kidd played with a serious knee injury during the game against the Detroit Pistons in the 2003-2004 season.
In the 2008 he became a player for the Dallas Maverick team again. He played there until he signed a new deal with the New York Knicks in the 2012. It was a pretty short experience period because the next year he decided to retire. In June he announced that he joined the Brooklyn Nets team as a coach. In the 2014 he joined the Milwaukee Bucks. Under his leadership the Bucks became one of the successful team during the 2014-2015 season.
During his incredible career he was awarded with the NBA champion title, USBWA National Freshman of the Year and NBA Co-Rookie of the Year. He also was NBA All-Star for ten times as well as All-NBA First Team for a five times. In the 2012 and 2013 he reached the NBA Sportsmanship Award. The stats of Jason Kidd in not found at the fangraphs site.
Jason was married twice. In the 1997 he married to Joumana. Along with his wife they have three kids named Trey Jason, Miah and Jazelle. Jason and Joumana got to divorce in the 2007 because of cases of a domestic abuse. Jason married again in the 2011 to Porschla Coleman, who was a former fashion model. The couple is blessed with two children. He has a net worth of 75 million dollars. His salary is unknown yet.
| Birth Date: | 23 Mar, 1973 |
| Age: | 47 yrs |
| Occupations: | Basketball player Basketball coach |
| Citizenship: | United States of America |
| Birth Place: | San Francisco |
| Education: | St. Joseph Notre Dame High School University of California, Berkeley |
| Gender: | Male |
| Description: | American basketball player and coach |
| Spouse: | Joumana Kidd[1997-2007] |
| Net Worth 2021: | 75 million |
