Congrats Kidd, NBA 4th All-Time Assists Leader

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Originally Posted by Bayliss

If Jason Kidd is serious about playing until he is 40, then he has a realistic shot at catching John Stockton.

Do you think so? Kidd is still around 6,000 assists behind Stockton. He will probably amass something like 650-700 assists this season. Until he's 40 (turning 36 in March), he has four more seasons to go (+ the rest of this one). Even he would score each time 700, that would make "only" 13,200 assists, still 2,600 behind Stockton. Stockton was a real beast. The only one who might have reached him was Magic if he hasn't been tested positive for HIV which caused him to end his career immediately in 1991 (I don't count that small tenure in 1996).