When it comes to Jason Kidd, the first thing that comes to mind for many new fans may be his high-IQ image as a coach who deliberately makes people touch their water glasses in order to gain extra time to set up tactics.
It is undeniable that he does have a hand as a coach and can think of many tricks on the spot to turn the team into a victory, but in fact, his true image is not the gentle and elegant he was as a coach, but a feared controller.
Because Jason Kidd was a well-known thorn in the side when he was a player, not only forcing the coach away one after another, but also often falling out with teammates and team management. If it weren't for his ball quotient and really high ball skills, it's hard to say how he would have gotten involved in the NBA. Today, we're going to take a look back at the basketball career of stinger Jason Kidd.
The thorn attribute has been shown before it entered the NBA, and it is suspected to be affected by Gary Payton
Jason Kidd was born in 1973 and grew up in Oakland, California. It's an area with a lot of basketball vibes, so it's only natural that Kidd was exposed to basketball.
And when Jason Kidd came into contact with basketball, Gary Payton, who was born in the same state and was four years older than him, was already a well-known local basketball kid king. As a result, Kidd would often follow Payton to play on the streets of Oakland.
After playing with others, Payton would drag Kidd to play one-on-one from time to time, and constantly challenged Kidd's psychological bottom line with his body and "trash talk".
This incident is not good or bad, because according to Kidd himself, he was once suspicious of his life at that time, and he couldn't help but think about whether he was suitable for playing basketball, and almost gave up the sport.
Of course, Kidd didn't give up on the sport, but gradually found his style of play and learned a lot from his confrontation with Gary Payton.
One thing to say, playing next to Gary Payton, the NBA's famous trash talk king "Glove", even if he was just a child, it is difficult for him not to be influenced by him, so as to get some habits. Presumably, Jason Kidd's thorny attribute was germinated because of this.
In high school, Kidd attended St. Joseph's High School. At that time, he was already a national high school basketball star, attracting the attention of many scouts.
Probably influenced by the time he once played with Gary Payton, the more famous he became, the more competitive Kidd seemed to become, so much so that while he was in college, his leadership style became more and more extreme, even though he and his teammates helped Berkeley excel in the NCAA Tournament.
In particular, his straightforward and even critical attitude towards his teammates and coaches has gradually made people evaluate him with mixed reviews.
Overall, Kidd's thorny attributes are a double-edged sword, with his self-drive and high standards driving the team's performance and friction with his teammates and his coaches stiffening on the other.
Entering the NBA, the thorn attribute is undoubtedly revealed
In the 1994 NBA draft, Kidd was selected by the Dallas Mavericks with the second overall pick and officially started his NBA career.
In his debut season, Kidd averaged 11.7 points, 5.4 rebounds and 7.7 assists per game with an excellent score of 10+5+5, allowing him to share the NBA Rookie of the Year honor with Grant Hill from the Detroit Pistons. After becoming famous, he was nicknamed the "3J" of Dallas along with two other Dallas players, Jim Jackson and Jamal Mashburn, and the trio averaged 61.5 points and 15.1 assists per game in their first season. Unfortunately, the best result of the "Dallas Three" in three years was only 36 wins and 46 losses.
As for why, it's Jason Kidd's thorny attribute
The 95-96 season, which is the second season of the 3J group, and the well-known American actress Tony Breston fell in love with Kidd and was ready to date him, but the day before the date, he suddenly turned around and looked for Jackson for some reason. So, feeling insulted, Kidd and Jackson got into a fight in the locker room without listening to any explanation.
Although it turned out later that this incident was entirely due to Breston's own watery Yanghua and even seduced Mashburn, the relationship between the two was very stiff after this incident. So much so that in the middle of the '96-97 season, the trio parted ways, that is, Kidd transferred to the Suns, Mashburn transferred to the Heat, and Jackson was sent to the Nets.
After a brief transition with the Suns, Jason Kidd, who woke up from the absurdity, finally cashed in on his talent with the Nets, leading the team to two Finals at one point. Unfortunately, due to the team's own lack of strength, the Nets returned home twice, and Kidd's thorny attributes continued to show.
He questioned that the failure was due to the lack of coaching ability of the team's head coach Scott, so he teamed up with his younger brother Martin to get rid of him the following season. Specifically, the Nets only finished 22-20 halfway through the season, and during the period when substitute coach Frank replaced Scott, Kidd led his younger brothers to help him win 13 games in a row, directly forcing Scott to step down.
Unfortunately, the Nets lost at the time not because of the head coach, but because of their owner.
Due to their own financial factors, the Nets changed hands to Brooklyn real estate businessman Leitner the previous summer, and this businessman didn't care about the team at all, only planned to build a Nets-centric business empire in Brooklyn, so reducing the Nets' current salary became his policy to run the team. As a result, over the course of the season, Kidd's teammates were sent away one by one and traded for cash and chips.
Kidd, who realized this, was extremely angry and directly and publicly stated that if the boss did such nonsense again, he would leave the team!
In the following seasons, Kidd's thorny attributes continued to show
In December 2007, Kidd refused to play in the Nets' home game against the Knicks on the pretext of a migraine, but according to insiders, Kidd actually planned the strike on the team's flight home from Cleveland.
After that, Kidd was traded by the Nets to the Mavericks, where Kidd had another conflict with "Little General" Avery Johnson. Although because of the Mavericks' championship in 11, Kidd has disappeared a lot of negative news. But Kidd himself didn't stop, and even after leaving the Mavericks, he had a war of words with Maverick owner Cuban.