In ESPN's latest list of the 100 NBA all-time players, Jason Kidd is ranked 35th. Kidd has had an illustrious career, with the second-highest number of assists in NBA history, the second-highest number of steals all-time, the third-highest number of triple-doubles all-time, and the fifth-most total number of three-point hits in history.

An NBA champion, a five-time league assist leader, a six-time All-League selection, a nine-time All-Defensive All-Defensive selection, and a nine-time All-Star.

Today, let's return to Kidd's legendary career.

In 1990, Kidd joined the University of California, Berkeley, after completing his four-year stud at St. Mary's High School.

The fledgling Kidd quickly showed an overly playmaking flair, was named to the All-American First Team in his sophomore year, and won the College Player of the Year award in 1992 named after James Naismith, the "founder of the game."

With a 0-point roll in the All-Star Slam Dunk Contest and a textbook point guard game, Kidd entered the 1994 NBA Draft.

The Dallas Mavericks, who already have Jim Jackson and Jamal Mashburn, who averaged 20 points per game, had a 13-69 record the previous season, and the team was in dire need of a guard who was good at passing and pointing, so they drafted young Jason Kidd with the second pick in the first round.

Kidd's arrival has spurred Mashburn and Jackson on the offensive end, with their scoring averages soaring from 19.2 to 24.1 and 25.7, respectively, and the Mavericks have won 23 more games than the previous season. Since all three of their names start with the letter "J", they were nicknamed "Dallas 3J".

Kidd, who was obsessed with pop music at the time, invited Donnie to dinner, but Jimmy Jackson snatched Downey with love. The love triangle was so much that Kidd even came close to getting into a big fight with Jackson in the locker room.

Downey, who eventually became famous, said: "I wouldn't kiss any of them. The story didn't end there, after Kidd's "with me without him", 3J was sold, and Kidd moved to the Phoenix Suns.

The newcomer Kidd didn't feel jerky and quickly took Kevin Johnson's place. But over the course of five seasons with the Suns, the Suns have repeated the cycle of "50 wins in the regular season — a first or second round of the playoffs — to start the new season."

Kidd himself only continued his record of three double-doubles every year since his rookie season, and then sat at the top of the league's assist leadership for three years in a row.

Just when fans felt that Kidd and his Suns were boring, the sequel to the story of Kidd and the woman is here again. In 2001, Kidd and Jomana erupted in the fourth year of their marriage that shocked the nation.

On the evening of January 12, Kidd's wife, Jomana, was going to the gym to work out, and she asked Kidd to feed her child, Kidd, but Kidd snatched her son's food and put it in his mouth, and Jomana reprimanded Kidd for not doing it.

Annoyed, Kidd spat food in his wife's face and slapped her, sending blood from the corner of Jomana's mouth before police arrived at the scene. In the end, if Jomana forgives him, Kidd will face jail time.

At this time, the Suns management had had enough of Kidd, and they sent Kidd to the New Jersey Nets in exchange for Stephen Marbury.

At that time, the New Jersey Nets were in ruins, and they had been in the league for some years, but Kidd's arrival suddenly rejuvenated the originally disheartened team.

Under Kidd's leadership, the Nets instantly rose from a 26-56 team to a 52-30 league powerhouse. His aerial relay with spring man Kenyon Martin became a great wonder of the league for a while.

In the 2001-02 season, the New Jersey Nets also made history by reaching the Finals, averaging 17.5 points, 11.2 rebounds and 10.2 assists per game in the Eastern Conference Finals.

However, the Nets met the Los Angeles Lakers, an invincible division with O'Neal and Kobe Bryant in their heyday, 4-0, and the Lakers lifted the O'Brien Cup cleanly.

Kidd's championship dream passed him by once again, and this time, it was a guy in the Spurs' No. 21 jersey who beat him. A year before that, this hateful guy had just snatched the regular season MVP trophy from him, and he was Tim Duncan.

In the summer of 2003, Popovich took Kidd for a ride through the streets of San Antonio in a limousine, and Kidd was faced with two paths: to join a team of defending champions with Tim Duncan and Manu Ginobili, or to go it alone and win a championship that was just for him.

Tony Parker, the Spurs' leading point guard at the time, was angry after hearing about Kidd's arrival, and Duncan tried his best to comfort Parker's emotions, but Parker still released the words "Kidd will leave when he comes".

Fortunately, Kidd finally chose to stay in New Jersey, leaving fans with infinite room for reverie like "if Kidd had gone to the Spurs back then".

Kidd, who stayed in New Jersey, didn't accomplish much in the years that followed, but this time Kidd was the victim.

In January 2007, Kidd's divorce complaint report stated that his wife, Jomana, used 8-year-old Kidd Jr. as an excuse to sneak into the Nets locker room and rummage through Kidd's cellphone. Then he walked to the court alone and began to abuse Kidd across the court. Before that, Kidd's wife had attacked Kidd with furniture in her home, which was also written into the divorce lawsuit.

Kidd originally made a kiss gesture with his hand before the free throw in order to show his love to his wife. Since then, Kidd's gesture has changed to kissing his hands and then silently buttocks, which means "kiss my... ”

In the 2007-08 season, the chaotic New Jersey Nets made a change when they sent Jason Kidd to the Dallas Mavericks, and Kidd returned to where his dream began.

But in the first round of 2008 against Chris Paul, Kidd looked stretched on both ends of the offensive and defensive ends, and was completely at a disadvantage, and finally the Mavericks were eliminated in the first round.

In 2010-11, Kidd's record of three doubles in every season of his career came to an end, but it was in this year that Kidd reaped the O'Brien Cup, a holy object he had always dreamed of.

On June 13, 2011, Kidd finished with 9 points, 4 rebounds and 8 assists, shattering LeBron James and his Miami Heat championship dreams and winning the first championship in the history of the Dallas Mavericks.

After a year with the Knicks, on June 4, 2013, Kidd officially announced his retirement, ending his 19-year career.

After retiring as a player, Kidd transitioned to a coach, and on June 13, 2013, less than 10 days after Kidd retired, Kidd agreed to a three-year contract with the Nets. During his time at the helm of the Nets, Kidd was twice named Coach of the Month.

A year later, on June 30, Kidd was traded to the Milwaukee Bucks, and in the following year, Kidd once again completed the feat of bringing a non-playoff team to the playoffs, becoming the only coach in league history to bring two different teams to the playoffs in two consecutive years.

In 2016, Kidd was 43 years old, and the legend continues.