{"id":771,"date":"2013-06-03T12:56:36","date_gmt":"2013-06-03T16:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/?p=771"},"modified":"2013-06-03T12:56:36","modified_gmt":"2013-06-03T16:56:36","slug":"jason-kidd-retiring-after-19-years-in-the-nba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/2013\/06\/03\/jason-kidd-retiring-after-19-years-in-the-nba\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason Kidd retiring after 19 years in the NBA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-772\" alt=\"jasonkidd\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2013\/06\/jasonkidd.jpg\" width=\"674\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2013\/06\/jasonkidd.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2013\/06\/jasonkidd-300x191.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 674px) 100vw, 674px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jason Kidd is retiring from the NBA. Kidd, 40, began to think about retirement at the All-Star break but did not make a decision until last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it is the right time,&#8221; Kidd told ESPNNewYork.com. &#8220;When you think about 19 years, it has been a heckuva ride. Physically, I want to be able to participate in activities with my kids so it has taken a toll. It is time to move on and think about maybe coaching or doing some broadcasting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>During his playing career Kidd was a 10-time All-Star who led the NBA in assists five times and ranks behind only John Stockton in all-time assists and steals.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jeff [Schwartz] and I and my family had been talking this past weekend,&#8221; Kidd added of his agent. &#8220;We talked a lot and we felt it was the right time to move on and so we notified the Knicks. They were kind of taken aback. We told them [earlier] that I wanted to come back and play. But this weekend was when we got a chance to relax [and really think about it]. It is the right thing to do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kidd had two years remaining on his current contract which would have paid him just over $3 million a year. He won an NBA title with the Dallas Mavricks and two Olympic gold medals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Kidd is retiring from the NBA. Kidd, 40, began to think about retirement at the All-Star break but did not make a decision until last weekend. &#8220;I think it is the right time,&#8221; Kidd told ESPNNewYork.com. &#8220;When you think about 19 years, it has been a heckuva ride. Physically, I want to be able [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[73],"coauthors":[3],"class_list":["post-771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","tag-jason-kidd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}