Quote (Benny21 @ Jan 23 2016 05:05pm)
In light of stories about how LeBron had schemed for Mark Jackson as a replacement for Blatt. Here is a list of all of the scandals he was involved in
- Staged a coup of John Stockton while he was on the Jazz, causing Stockton to retire.
- Cheated on his wife with a stripper, then getting blackmailed by the prostitute + some other guy, while at the same time being a born-again pastor
- Bristled at Mike Malone being the assistant coach under him (ownership wanted him to be the Associate Head Coach, like Gentry was with Kerr, but when Jackson found out he said NO WAY
- Didn't let assistant coaches do interviews with press because he thought they were gunning for his job
- Pushed Malone out because Jackson thought Malone was gunning for his job
- Demoted Brian Scalabrine to D-League coach because he called out Jackson's lack of work ethic!
- Instilled a "us vs them" where the "them" was the entire front office. He would tell the players that the front office didn't want them to win so that Mark Jackson would look bad. C'mon that's lunacy
- Barred Jerry West and Jim Barnett (the beloved TV color guy) along with everyone else from practices so they couldn't hear the crazy shit he said to the team
- Told the team Ezeli was rooting for them to lose so that Ezeli would look better (he was injured). This culminated in Ezeli in tears saying that there was no way he would do this, when confronted by the team
- Told the team that Harrison Barnes was possessed by a demon, which is why he regressed
- Darren Erman, the assistant responsible for the defense after Mike Malone left, was recording Mark Jackson surreptitiously to try and capture the crazy shit like the Harrison Barnes demon thing and the Ezeli thing, but was caught and fired
- Noted homophobe, including the "I'll pray for him" when discussing Jason Collins coming out. This doesn't fly in the bay area when a lot of the team staff is gay and so is the front office, including the COO/President Rick Welts
- Didn't want to hire actual good assistants, instead, he hired yes-men like Pete Myers and Lindsay Hunter, who backstabbed Alvin Gentry in Phoenix to get the head job
- All the coaching staff were allying themselves with star players instead of the players who actually needed their help/development, so a lot players like Barnes didn't get the development time and help they needed
- He put players against each other, telling a star player "hey that bench thinks he's better than you" and then telling the bench guy "hey that star guy thinks you're shit, go take his job"
- Didn't get along with anyone in the front office, including Jerry West, Bob Myers, and actually the rest of the employees (marketing, PR, etc)
- No preparation. He said in the Clippers series that he didn't need to prepare extra hours, when Doc Rivers was up all night devising schemes
Complete fucking lunatic. Glad he is gone. Complete cancer. The offense under him was atrocious. Winning the year after his firing was just fucking perfect. Disgusted with how he treated Malone. I wish Malone nothing but the best. Hope he can get Denver going in the right direction. It looks like he already has.
Jackson is a salty faggot.