Grant Hill announced his retirement on TNT this past Saturday night before game 6 of the Eastern Conference Finals. Now the man who shared the 1995 Rookie of the Year award with Hill, Jason Kidd, is also retiring.

Kidd announced his retirement today after 19 years in the NBA. He joins fellow 1994 NBA draftee, Grant Hill, just a few days after Hill announced his retirement on TNT. 

TNT will probably air a special on Kidd tonight before the Miami Heat and Indiana Pacers do battle in game 7 of the Eastern Conference Finals.

Aside from splitting the 1994/95 NBA Rookie of the Year Award with Grant Hill, Kidd was a 10-time NBA All-Star, a four time All-NBA Defensive 1st Team selection, a four-time All-NBA 1st Team selection, and made the 2nd Team All-Defense five more times.

Jason Kidd was also named Player of the Week 17 times, Rookie of the Month once, and the NBA's Player of the Month three times. Kidd led the league in assists four times over his career as well. 

Kidd also finished second in MVP voting during the 2001/02 season.  

Kidd is third all time in 3-point field goals made, after struggling to shoot the ball for much of his earlier career. He is second all-time in steals and assists.

Jason also dragged a drastically undermanned New Jersey Nets team to the NBA Finals two years in a row: 2001/02 & 2002/03 only to fall to the Lakers and Spurs in the Finals.  

In 2011, Kidd won his first and only NBA Championship as the starting point guard for the Dallas Mavericks. 

Unlike Grant Hill, who injured his ankle days before the 2000 playoffs and never recovered the explosiveness that made him one of the best players in the NBA in the late 1990s, Kidd never experienced any significant injuries over the course of his consistently brilliant career.

Kidd had been hampered by back problems over the last season with the Knicks, which probably played a large part in his retirement announcement. 

Many consider Kidd one of the best point guards of all time and certainly one of the hardest working and smartest basketball players in league history.

Basketball-Reference.com has his Hall-of-Fame probability at just a shade under 95 percent. He'll likely be selected the first year he's eligible, in 2019.