Jason Kidd
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52 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard 2 May
Jason Kidd’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You're invited and we're going to order everything. Sounds good.
Well, when you talk about Ryan, that's we were at a crew cup playing golf and we were playing against each other. And we're just talking about the love of golf. And he's actually involved. They're actually involved in Roma. And so he was like, hey, you got to come over. You got to come over. But he was serious about coming over. And, you know, unfortunately, my schedule didn't let me get over.
But we kept in touch. as I said, relationships, you never know what can happen. And so we stayed in touch and I started to hear rumblings about them getting involved in Everton. So I asked, I wasn't shy. I said, Ryan, are you getting involved? And he goes, I think we might. And so that's why I left it. And he came back and goes, hey, do you have any interest? And I said, I would love to.
I was honored that he thought about me. And so when you get the opportunity to invest with not just a great team, but also great people. And so I'm very excited to go along this journey with them.
I think it's really important first to, you know, in life, write down your visions, write down your dreams, being able to have an opportunity in ownership is something that I wrote down a long, long time ago, but also understanding patience in the process. I think the process when we're young, we only think about land and wasn't worried about what I was doing on the court.
I wasn't worried about what he was doing on the soccer field. He's the GOAT of U.S. soccer. And so he achieved everything because you're working. But if you take a time out to fill your dreams of what you really want to accomplish, being able to understand ownership is a very powerful thing and nothing to take for granted.
And we've all have been players that have had great owners and owners who maybe didn't live up to what we thought could be possible. And so I've taken notes of being around the Cubans of the world, of understanding what it means to be a successful owner. And hopefully I can do that, have that opportunity with the freaking group. That's awesome.
Oh, Landon, great question. I think there's a lot of comparisons. Growing up, soccer being my first sport, dribbling, right, with your feet, not with your hands. Understanding passing, playing in small spaces. Unfortunately, when I was, I wanted to score like you. And so being a forward, center forward, I wanted to just kick it and I tried to use my speed.
I thought I was fast and could outrun everybody and tried to, you know, I wanted to score. It's almost the opposite of my basketball game. I was just going to say, that's not what you were. And so when you look at the things I learned in soccer about passing, you know, give and go was something that I learned in soccer. It was one of the oldest plays in basketball as a third grader. And so
And then just taking dribbling from my feet to my hands. And so being able to be coordinated with the lower half of your body as a third or fourth grader, a lot of times we're not right. It's the other way around. We learn how to use our hands first instead of our feet. So I felt I had the advantage there. of coordination.
And so there is a lot of similarities when you talk about angles, passing, creating space, being able to create lanes, and then patience, being able to execute the play. And so that goes for both soccer and basketball.
You know what that is? I think that's Nash's a soccer game in, um, in the park in New York. I think it's something anyway, you look good.
Yeah, I think one, anytime you're asked to represent your country, I think it's an honor. Any ill will or hard foul or a buzzer beater, those things are never brought into the meeting room day one. We all leave that out. I think there's a great story with Coach K in 08. He wanted the egos to come into the room.
He felt that he can manage those big egos when you talk about Kobe, LeBron, D-Wade, Melo. He wanted that because he felt that we needed that to be able to be successful, and he was 100% right. But I think it's when you can have one goal, and that's just winning the gold medal. There is no who's the leading scorer, who's the leading assist, or who leads in rebounds or minutes.
one goal is just to win the game and that's it and move on to the next game until you are holding that gold medal and listening to that national anthem. And so I've been very fortunate to play on two national teams in 2000 in Australia and then 08 in China. And I thought that both teams have one goal and that was just to win a gold medal. And it was
Now, practice was fun because guys wanted to get after it. Guys wanted to prove that they were better than the next. When you talk about Kobe and LeBron, they were on separate teams. Coach K knew that was going to be an incredible practice. And so when you talk about the chippiness that you see this in the playoffs this this season, I love it.
I love that the officials are just out there getting cardio. I love that they're letting the players, you know, decide the game. Was that a foul or not a foul? That last shot by Timmy, you know. They said they made a mistake and missed the foul. But I think up to that point, that was an incredible game by both teams making big and difficult shots. The shot making in that game was incredible.
And physically too, right?
Yeah, I think you bring up a great point. I think a lot of it is mental. Right. I think when you're around talent and you believe you're one of the best, you get over being tired because, you know, when you go to practice, Chris Paul, Darren Williams, they're coming after you. When you talk about Gary Payton, he's going to embarrass you. And he's going to do a lot of talking anyway.
He's going to tell you about it. Exactly. So I think when you have those opportunities to play for your national team, even if a long season, if you win a title, if you lose a title, I think just when you love competition, you're getting the best in the country. And so I think you kind of shift into another gear. And the best comes out. Whenever you can go against the best, you tend to
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