“Joe Prunty will take over, and he will run the team. But nobody gets out of their lane. Joe will still be offense, and Sweeney will still be defense.”

American former professional basketball player and coach, born 1973

Jason Kidd is an American former professional basketball player and coach, best known as a Hall of Fame point guard whose career spanned the modern NBA era. He was born in 1973. Kidd was a 10-time NBA All-Star, a six-time All-NBA selection, and a nine-time member of the NBA All-Defensive Team. He won an NBA title with the Dallas Mavericks in 2011, earned Olympic gold with the U.S. national team in 2000 and 2008, and was named to the NBA 75th Anniversary Team in 2021. He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2018 for his individual career and again in 2025 as part of the Redeem Team.