Mark Jackson
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3.2K7Andrew Bogut pokes fun at Mark Jackson during Twitter Q&A
When Mark Jackson called the Warriors’ win over the Cavaliers a month ago at Oracle Arena, two specific quotes got more attention than anything else he said. “Steve Kerr has done an outstanding job. They’re sitting, the best team in basketball today. He deserves a lot of credit. I think while giving him credit, there’s […]
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3.8K5NBA reporting gone mad: Real GM commenter out-scoops Bucher, M-Jax replacing Kidd in Brooklyn?
Want to know how much news gathering has changed? Ric Bucher is apologizing for reporting stuff that didn’t come to fruition, and an anonymous poster at Real GM is nailing even crazier stories with uncanny accuracy. First, the Bric Ucher thing. Source: Toronto looking to S&T Kyle Lowry to Miami for cash and future picks. Part […]
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Andre Iguodala on first year with Warriors: “Sometimes it was good, sometimes it was bad.”
Yesterday Andre Iguodala was named to the NBA All-Defensive First Team for the first time in his career. Iguodala went on KNBR’s Fitz and Brooks show to discuss the honor, which signals a bright spot in what was a trying season for Iguodala in some ways. Iguodala started the season looking like he was born to be a Warrior. […]
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Mark Jackson on rumors he made homophobic comments while coaching Warriors: “Lies!!”
SFBay.ca issued a pretty explosive report on Friday afternoon about former Golden State Warriors head coach Mark Jackson: On April 29, 2013, Jason Collins announced to the world that he is gay. In February of this year, the Brooklyn Nets made Collins the first openly gay player in the NBA. During a shoot-around on a road trip before […]
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Jackson’s firing changes Curry’s mindset from Warrior-4-life to … well, let’s wait and see
I wasn’t able to attend Stephen Curry’s press conference today, although I caught the formal presentation of his KIA Community Assist Award on Warriors.com. It’s an honor Curry absolutely deserves, as he’s one of those rare professional athletes (or people, for that matter) who seems to do the right thing at all times. At this point, Curry might […]
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3.5K6What Warriors think Kerr will bring that Jackson didn’t: Humility and assistant coaches with experience
The beginning of Tuesday’s press conference that introduced the new head coach of the Golden State Warriors was your standard Fitz-fest, a celebration of Steve Kerr’s basketball lineage. The main (only?) newsworthy component came from general manager Bob Myers (Joe Lacob didn’t take the stage today — he was seated in the front row, as you can see in […]
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4.1K23Eric Byrnes: 2013-14 was David Lee’s “most miserable basketball season”
Current/former(?) KNBR host Eric Byrnes went on with Tom Tobert and Ray Ratto yesterday afternoon, and in the course of some Warriors smalltalk dropped a “juicy, juicy, juicy” (as Byrnes himself might say) nugget. “One thing I heard, and this was interesting. And I don’t know what the reason was. Now I heard this secondhand, […]
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7.4K24Jim Barnett on Warriors coaching change: “I think they made the right decision, quite frankly”
Apparently Mark Jackson’s problems with communication went further than his relationships with the front office and certain assistant coaches. Jim Barnett went on KNBR’s “Murph and Mac” show this morning, and made it clear that he was 100% in favor of the Warriors’ coaching change. “I think they made the right decision, quite frankly, for […]
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2.9K6Warriors’ coaching search is off to a rough start, but there are plenty of other fish in the sea
On the day Mark Jackson was fired, Bob Myers met with reporters and made it sound as if replacing their former head coach with someone better would be a piece of cake. “I would put this up there against any vacant job right now in the league as far as its attractiveness,” Myers said. The […]
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Mark Jackson goes on the sports talk radio offensive
Yesterday was Joe Lacob’s opportunity to explain the Warriors’ position, and he used over 3,000 words in doing so. The two quotes that stood out, at least to me: “This is Bob Myers’ decision. I have the final say, but (Myers) gets input from Jerry (West) as a consultant and advisor and from Kirk (Lacob) and […]
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After taking a gamble on Mark Jackson three years ago, Joe Lacob bet on himself today
I’m in the venture capital business and have been for 25 years. We do a lot of diligence and a lot of assessing of things. We do our homework. We’re analytical. But in the end, you’re starting businesses when there’s a lot of unknowns when you do start-ups. No matter how much analysis you do, […]
