Kenny ‘The Jet’ Smith
Posted by Cosandra Calloway on Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Kenneth (Kenny) "The Jet" Smith (born March 8, 1965) is a retired
National Basketball Association player and current TV basketball analyst,
primarily for Inside the NBA on TNT.Smith was selected by the Sacramento
Kings with the sixth pick of the 1987 NBA Draft. He played in the NBA
from 1987 to 1997 as a member of the Sacramento Kings, Atlanta Hawks,
Houston Rockets, Detroit Pistons, Orlando Magic, and Denver
Nuggets. In his professional career, Smith scored 9,397 points and
recorded 4,073 assists. He won two NBA championships with the Rockets in
1994 and 1995. In the first game of the 1995 Finals against the
Orlando Magic, Smith made seven three-pointers, including a game-tying
shot which sent the game into overtime. The Rockets won the game
120–118.