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This performance by the Lakers has impressed many, who now believe they could be real championship contenders this season. One of them is 2003 NBA champion Stephen Jackson, who praised the duo of Luka and Reaves, giving them a new nickname. “JJ [Redick], Austin Reaves, and Luka [Doncic], I’m proud to say this—this is my first time in my life saying this—white power,” Jackson said on the All the Smoke podcast. “These mf’ers are balling. I don’t care what anybody says. The way they play, it doesn’t matter what LeBron [James] does—these two keep averaging 30, they’re going to be alright.” Jackson also stated that he has no doubt Reaves will be an All-Star this season. “He will be an All-Star,” Jackson said. “If he’s not an All-Star, then hey, it’s my first time seeing politics work on that side.”
Stephen Jackson: So whether your father was around every day or not, you’re still gonna resemble him in some way. And Ja’s dad? He is not a violent person, not a ghetto person, nothing like that, bro. Has not one ghetto side. He is a respectful dude. He about his money and he's a silent person. Everybody he come around, he smiled and speaking to him. So for Ja to eventually get to Memphis, shout out to Memphis. It ain't got nothing to do with Memphis. It's just he got to Memphis and tried to embrace that culture and became somebody he's really not. Yeah, I said he's he he betrayed and he's been in some situations where he was around people that he didn't normally hang around. You J just wasn't that person. So now he's trying to assume that character of 'I got to be this tough guy. I got to point guns. I got to do all this [ __ ]' You're not NBA YoungBoy. You ain't never shot at nobody. You ain't never been in no [ __ ] like this. Ain't nobody never shot at you. So leave that away from basketball. Yeah, you made some mistakes. Let the mistakes go. But the but the the persona you trying to carry now like you just hard dude or something like that.
While hosting fellow ex-NBA star Jeff Teague and Bishop Henn of the popular Club 520 on his own show, "All The Smoke", Stephen Jackson called out Draymond Green while defending his take that there are no players currently in the NBA who are successful podcasters and successful NBA players at the same time. "Keep it foggy, half the players that's playing that got a (podcast), they can't do it," Jackson said. "I ain't seen nobody be successful doing it yet. They might be successful in the media space, but talking about some on the court and on a podcast. Nobody's been successful on both."
When Henn suggested Green's name as a potential pushback during the debate, Jackson made his opinion on the four-time NBA champion quite clear. "(Draymond's) role is super limited to what he got to do, bro," Jackson said. "He's not like the guy on the team, like the go-to guy to star. You just thought around to do the dirty work, you're starting (expletive).
Speaking on the latest episode of the All The Smoke podcast with Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson, Mobley reflected on his time with Yao in Houston and expressed that the 7-foot-6 center was more than just a dominant post scorer. “What people don’t understand about Yao. He could pass the ball, like Joker, he could've done that,” Mobley said. “It’s just the offense didn’t. Say we would’ve had Rick Adelman, for a fact, you would’ve seen more of Yao Ming. Like that Chris Webber, that Vlade Divac, Brad Miller type of passing. He had all of it.”
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How much did you feel that people they felt counted you and your teammates out during the 2006-07 “We Believe” Golden State Warriors team run in the NBA Playoffs against the Dallas Mavericks? Jason Richardson: Aw man! We felt EVERY bit of that! Every bit of that, man! We had an UNBELIEVABLE fan base out there in Oakland. They were tired of losing; it was 13, 14 years without them going to the playoffs and they just had this energy about us that just… almost propelled us going into the playoffs, you know — making the playoffs first of all. And so, we understood that people counted us out. Everybody had something against them, you know? They were saying that Baron [Davis] was “injury prone”; Stack Jack (aka Stephen Jackson) was coming off the situation in Detroit with the ‘Malice in the Palace’; they had me as a good player that’s getting numbers on a bad team… There were just so many things that we had that we wanted to prove people wrong and I think we put all of that aside and we played for each other and the only thing that we wanted to do was like, Hey we gonna let you know that one: We’re a good team and we’re good players…
Stephen Jackson on Malice at the Palace brawl: "I definitely regret it because that didn't happen too. That incident cost me a lot of All-Star games. You know what I'm saying? $3 million and court fees and all that stuff. So, yeah, I definitely regret it. If anybody that was involved in that say they don't regret it, they lying. I definitely regret it because it put a cloud over me, too. But what I don't regret is being there for my teammate, right? You throw a beer in anybody’s face around the world, that's assault. But it's not assault when you're dealing with a tall, black, rich, black athlete. You know what I mean? So, I get it. But I would rather be there for my friends and be known for that than being one of the guys walking off and one of my teammates getting stumped out in the stands."
Stephen Jackson: I didn't admire Michael Jordan. I admired Kobe Bryant because he was the same age as me. And the dedication that he put as a teenager, I didn't think was real. Like, you know what I'm saying? Like he was just so different. McDonald's, we all at the McDonald's game. All there for the same reasons. I should have won MVP that game. We going to McDonald's after practice. He says ‘I see y'all. I'm not eating that sh*t.’ This is in high school. Everybody eat McDonald's in high school! Everybody still eat to this day. I don't, but everybody eat McDonald's in high school! The Big Mac and two fries and strawberry shake, apple pie. Everybody had that. Not Kobe. Not Kobe Bean Bryant.
Byron Scott. Game seven. You need a bucket. You got two players. Which one of these two you gonna give it to? MJ or Kobe? Stephen Jackson: I’m giving it to Kobe because just off the simple fact that I know he’s going to get us a good shot. I know it. And I know we going to get an attempt. You know, you might double him and we seen him get doubled and make the pass, the right pass. If Kobe gets the ball, we going to get a shot up. I don't care if it might be over four or five people and the odds of him making it than the other four people on the court is totally different. So I'm going with Kobe. Off the top.
Matt Barnes: What's the difference between those two in your opinion? Craig Hodges: Right hand. Barnes: Why? Hodges: Because Kobe would be going to the line to shoot two, MJ was going to shoot the and one. So a lot of them knocks that Kobe had to shoot with two hands when that knock would happen, MJ put that bad boy over here. You know what I'm saying? Stephen Jackson: Oh, that's the difference, huh? Okay. Hodges: That is the only difference, it’s that gripper. Him and Dr. J (Julius Erving).
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Reggie Miller got emotional during his appearance on the All the Smoke podcast when Stephen Jackson started the conversation with an apology for his part in the brawl between the Indiana Pacers and the Detroit Pistons and their fans, the Malice at the Palace. “I’ve never had a chance just to tell you that I’m sorry,” said Jackson, who was suspended 30 games after the most infamous night in NBA history. “We all understood what our motivation was for that season. It wasn’t for us. It was for you. It was the whole motivation for getting things done the right way and getting a championship for you. I never got a chance to apologize to you for my actions. With me saying that, I love you even more because you defended me because you knew that I was just being a loyal teammate.”
Miller immediately got choked up and his eyes began to water after hearing his former teammate’s heartfelt words. “I did not want to go there. You don’t have to say that to me, man,” Miller told Jackson. “Come on, man. You don’t need to apologize to me. You young cats, Jamaal (Tinsley), Jermaine (O’Neal), Al (Harrington), yourself, Ron (Artest, now Metta Sandiford-Artest), made those last few years in Indiana my best years. I didn’t have my superpowers but I felt and you guys made me feel like I was Superman.”
Stephen Jackson: We all make mistakes but I heard you made a mistake and accidentally hit Horace Grant over the head with a dumbbell trying to hit Gary Payton. Vernon Maxwell: I was trying to get GP upside his motherf*cking head with a dumbbell and hit my boy hard, that's my boy… Jackson: And put him out two weeks! Maxwell: Yeah it was my fault. I bruised him pretty bad. That's my boy. GP, he jumped on my young boy, hit my young boy Shammond Williams for no reason.
Matt Barnes: LeBron has a new running mate. Stephen Jackson: Yep. Barnes: I had a hard time believing, Stack, because we've been in this game a long time that LeBron had no idea that this was going down, I had a really hard time believing that but I've just been hearing more and more sh-t… Jackson: I say I don’t. Barnes: You don't believe it? He knew, he had to know, right? There ain't no f—— way. Jackson: No way. Barnes: There ain't no way! Jackson: No way. Barnes: There ain't no way that LeBron… But on the flip side people are saying hey maybe this is the Lakers finally putting their foot down and not really have to check in with Bron no more, you know what I mean? So you hear that side and it's just like but I just don’t. A trade of this magnitude and LeBron being who he is and he's always been so instrumental on whatever team he is obviously with just cause, to having a say on what happens, so I just don't see something this big going down without Bron knowing.