Still less than a year removed from the final games of his playing career, Jason Kidd is more well-positioned than most coaches to understand the grind of a playoff series and what it takes to keep players fresh for the games that follow. So when his Brooklyn Nets came out [...]
With his team down 26 points to the Toronto Raptors late in the third quarter of a pivotal Game 5, Brooklyn Nets coach Jason Kidd had a decision to make. Coach Kidd could have turned the game over to his reserves and given his starters some rest as the team [...]
Of the four times the Brooklyn Nets met the Toronto Raptors, three of those games were decided by small margins in the final seconds. So when Coach Jason Kidd’s squad drew the Raptors in the first round of the playoffs, he knew they would be in for a battle that [...]
In their first playoff game with a new coach and two veterans with decades of playoff experience, the Brooklyn Nets showed the toughness and mettle the franchise lacked in last year’s failed playoff run. Jason Kidd got his first playoff win as the wily Nets survived everything the Toronto Raptors [...]
The last time they opened up a playoff series in Toronto, the Nets resided in New Jersey and point guard Jason Kidd tallied 15 assists to lead them to a 96-91 win over the Raptors in Game 1, on their way to a series win in six. On Saturday afternoon, [...]
As the Brooklyn Nets finished off their regular season on Wednesday night in Cleveland, much remained unknown about where and when they would begin their postseason. But rather than push his starters in the season’s 82nd game in an effort to secure the No. 5 seed in the Eastern Conference, [...]
After years as one of the players his teams would look to find rest for in the final days of the regular season, Jason Kidd finds himself on the other side this season. Now it is on Jason's plate to balance the minutes of a bevy of veterans and toy [...]
Forty-eight hours after the longest home winning streak in franchise history was snapped, Coach Jason Kidd’s Brooklyn Nets began a new one. The Nets bounced back from a Friday night loss to the Atlanta Hawks that ended their franchise-best streak at 15 games with a 97-88 victory over the Orlando [...]
When Jason Kidd took the job as coach of the Brooklyn Nets, he did so with the knowledge that much of his team’s gameplan would center around its All-Star center, Brook Lopez. However, when Lopez went down with a season-ending injury, the plan changed. With Lopez gone and just Andray [...]
In the Miami Heat’s "Big Three" era, the list of those who have consistently outperformed Miami’s All-Star trio is small. But Jason Kidd’s name is at the top. Since LeBron James and Chris Bosh took their talents to South Beach the Heat have been nearly unstoppable, with three consecutive NBA [...]