First, the career round of his life to beat a reporter/blogger (shortly before he reported for practice last fall), only to be followed nine months later by a trip to the NBA Finals! How cool is that? I’m sure the former was the highlight of his year!
Jason Kidd is an excellent human being, an incredible athlete and an even better golfer.
I’m tired of writing those words (even if I believe them), but it’s honestly humiliating. But here’s another video from the golf course. At this point, I’m still one-up, but I had started to lose my focus. According to J-Kidd, the video camera was my Kryptonite — including when I was holding it.
Jason Kidd is an excellent human being, an incredible athlete and an even better golfer. I will be starting every post with that sentence for the next week because I lost our wager. (Watch the video after the jump.)
“Make sure she gives you enough strokes,” said Allan Henry (who was my friend until Tuesday morning) to Jason Kidd, who had just pulled up in his black Jeep Rubix to pick me up for our friendly match at TPC Scottsdale.
“Yeah? I’ll need them,” the Dallas Maverick point guard replied.
“What’s your handicap?” asked Allan.
“10,” said Kidd.
“I played with her the other week, don’t let her fool you. If it were me, I’d make her give me two a side.”
As if my summer couldn’t get more surreal, I’m in Scottsdale, AZ. Now why on earth would anyone travel to Arizona in late August? That’s what I’m wondering, too, but I couldn’t turn down the opportunity to play (a friendly but cutthroat) round of golf with Dallas Mavericks point guard Jason Kidd at TPC Scottsdale Whisper Rock — you know, the club where the likes of Phil Mickelson, Geoff Ogilvy and Paul Casey (just to name a few) call themselves members.
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