So joining us now on the ticket hotline to talk about his big birthday is the Mavs head coach.

Happy birthday, Jason Kidd.

Hey, guys, how you're doing?

Good.

We're doing great.

Good to talk to you on your birthday.

Thanks for making time for us.

Well, I don't know if I have the ability to make time. I mean, it's still only 24 hours in the day. I can't add a few more hours just to make it more convenient for you. I don't know how you think I can summon some sort of temporal power like that. No, no, no. I didn't think anything like that. Just a saying.

Yeah, you did.

Well, happy birthday.

How do you feel about your 53rd trip around the sun?

Well, now, I don't know that I made a trip around the sun.

It's old up there a little bit.

I don't even think the astronauts have you even made a trip around the sun yet.

I mean, maybe you're thinking of the moon because I know that astronauts have gone around the moon.

But they, as far as I know, they've never invited anyone from the NBA to go with them as some sort of goodwill ambassador to spread the passion for hoop to the Martians that live on Neptune or Venus or other asteroids in our solar systems.

So you may be confused me with someone else who has climbed aboard a space shuttle and gone

around the sun to play basketball.

It just means another year.

And, okay, what about how you celebrate?

What about presents or birthday spankings?

Wait, no.

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