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After Brown held his introductory press conference on Tuesday, Jackson sent a cryptic message on Instagram. "You're more than qualified, your resume says you're more than qualified, your body of work says you're more than qualified, so it's easy to get depressed," Jackson said. "It's easy to get discouraged, it's easy to get down, it's easy to have doubt and start questioning. I don't know who I'm talking to. "You even prayed about it, asked about it, and it didn't happen," Jackson continued. "Well, it didn't happen for a reason. The worst place to be in this world is outside the will of God... What's yours is yours. Stay ready, so you don't have to get ready."
Cameron Johnson on Tom Thibodeau’s firing: “It’s a copycat league and some teams have done it with a lot of success. You look at Golden State going from Mark Jackson to Steve Kerr, championships, dynasty run. You look at um Toronto going from Dwayne Casey to Nick Nurse and immediately coming up with a championship. So, I think that's kind of set a a precedent that like this can be a successful a a formula for winning to getting over the hump."
A 1990 trading card of Erik and Lyle Menendez skyrocketed in value following the infamous brothers’ 1996 conviction in their parents’ Beverly Hills, California, double murder. The trading card featuring New York Knicks guard Mark Jackson, obtained by Fox News Digital, gained notoriety after eagle-eyed collectors noticed that the Menendez brothers were sitting in a pair of floor seats at the game. The discovery of their presence on the card sparked significant interest among collectors and true crime aficionados. Previously valued at mere cents, the card’s price surged, with some listings reaching hundreds of dollars.
It was no surprise when Karl surfaced on social media with the same pugnacious, in-your-face style. He has sparred with former players Anthony, Martin and Smith, and television personalities Kendrick Perkins, Mark Jackson and Nick Wright on Twitter/X. The inflammatory posts generated headlines and back-and-forth discussion. The dust-ups went a long way to pushing Karl back into the NBA conversation. He was once again relevant. He once again had a voice. There was just one problem. He never wrote the posts. “I’ve gone on Twitter to find out what somebody said, but I’ve never, ever wrote anything,” Karl said. “I’ve never done that my whole life, but I know it’s out there.” The man behind the account is Brett Goldberg, Karl’s business partner and manager. Sometimes, Karl will tell Goldberg to post on a subject. Usually, though, it’s Goldberg creating the content. “It’s like 80 percent Brett,” Karl said. “He wanted me to have more of an online presence … and I don’t understand branding.”
Jake Fischer: I think Doug Christie is probably in a very strong position to retain that role, being that the owner, Vivek Ranadivé, is very much known to be a supporter of his. He's known, generally and characteristically, to be a supporter of former players in head coaching capacities. For example, Mark Jackson was someone that Vivek wanted to hire years ago — before they even hired Mike Brown. So, I'm expecting as of now, until I hear otherwise, that Doug Christie will be retaining that chair moving forward.
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Keerthika Uthayakumar: Fun fact: Stephon Castle leads all rookies with 14.0 points this season, the fewest points the rookie scoring leader has averaged since Marc Jackson in 2000-01 (13.2). No, not that Mark Jackson.
Andre Iguodala: We were winning games. We knew Steph was Steph. Mark Jackson had already told us, ‘Steph is Steph. Y’all are going to see in a minute—he’s going to be MVP.’ Mark Jackson had been saying this for two or three years already before anybody else was even thinking about it, which was crazy. He was like, ‘Steph’s our guy. Nobody on this team is getting in his way.’ How many times have you seen a coach tell the entire team, ‘Hey, man, ain’t nobody going to get in this dude’s way’? Yeah, yeah. That’s why I wanted to be a part of that team.
Julius Erving on GOAT debate: 'Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was always the guy standing in my way'
Mark Jackson: Do you have an answer if somebody asked you who is the greatest basketball player you've ever seen? Julius Erving: (…) As a pro you’re kind of conditioned to not put anybody that far ahead of you and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was always the guy standing in my way. I was always in his shadow because of the years in which we played and we overlapped and I didn't I mean my ABA years he was in the NBA but then my NBA years he was there every one of my NBA years so any individual recognitions that I got I always felt that's when I got him, you know? I got some recognition that he didn't get because I was the MVP and he wasn’t. So personally that was the guy who I look at as probably the GOAT.
Isiah Thomas on Mark Jackson's legacy: He gave Stephen Curry mad confidence
Isiah Thomas: "Mark Jackson put that battery in Steph Curry's back and gave him mad confidence. When Steph goes into the Hall of Fame, I hope he remembers you as the person that gave him the type of confidence he plays with today.“
The final broadcast in the long career of ESPN NBA analyst Hubie Brown is set. ESPN announced Tuesday that Brown is scheduled to serve as the analyst for the February 9 Sixers-Bucks NBA regular season game on ABC, which will be the final broadcast of his career. He will work alongside Mike Breen on the game, with whom he called the 2006 NBA Finals. The game, which is scheduled for Super Bowl Sunday, takes place in the city — Milwaukee — where Brown began his professional coaching career. Brown joined ESPN/ABC as its lead NBA analyst in the 2004-05 season, working back-to-back NBA Finals on ABC — first with Al Michaels and then Breen. He previously called games for TNT and TBS, leaving those networks in 2002 to coach the Memphis Grizzlies. He is the longest-tenured ESPN NBA game analyst, having debuted on the network even before Jeff Van Gundy and Mark Jackson.
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Marbury was a guest at the Come And Talk 2 Me podcast with Mark Jackson, where he declared the current players are lazier than their counterparts in earlier generations. "When I look at today's game, and it's a lot of stuff that I see, when I look at it, I'm like, 'Wow, these kids don't really know how to really play.' If they really knew how to play, play from angles, coming off pick-and-roll, even on defense, it would help save so much time," he said. "And I don't really so much think that they don't know how to play. I just think that they are lazy and not consistent in doing what it is that they're supposed to be doing.
Erik and Lyle Menendez are experiencing newfound fame behind bars thanks to the popular Netflix series about the gruesome murders of their parents ... and there's a weird request that keeps coming up in the fan mail that's been pouring in, TMZ has learned. A source with knowledge at Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego tells TMZ ... the infamous brothers have seen a "huge" increase in mail from fans (and, of course, some haters) thanks to wild interest in Netflix's "Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story." Perhaps the most interesting item the brothers are being sent ... 1990-91 Hoops Mark Jackson NBA cards -- the brothers are on the card, snapped sitting in the Knicks crowd, after the murders, before their arrests -- and people want 'em autographed.
Mark Jackson: "I think in the ideal world, Klay Thompson finishes his career with the Golden State Warriors. But you know how this business is—the loyalty only works one way, and that's not a knock on the Warriors, that's just the way the sports world is. Everybody doesn’t get to sign a deal at the end like Derek Jeter. Truth be told, you look back and they probably should have let him go as great as he was. Klay Thompson is going to be fine, and it’s a great pickup for the Dallas Mavericks. Unfortunately, he didn’t end his career with the Golden State Warriors, but that’s not the way the world works. I’m proud of Klay Thompson because when we drafted him—and he’d be the first to tell you—Klay Thompson being in a group text with all the players didn’t even respond because he just wasn’t a talkative guy. And now, all these years later, this guy is the best—I've called 15 NBA Finals—this guy is the best interview to sit down and talk to. It’s incredible how far he’s come. Not that he wasn’t capable, but he just wasn’t comfortable. And now, he sits there and eloquently describes being a champion and making his place in the history of basketball. I’m proud as a coach and as a friend."
Mark Jackson: "Escalade, my younger brother, was an AND1 mixtape legend, and at 6’10”, 400-plus pounds, he could’ve been an NBA player. He had guard skills, but he didn’t have the discipline. He didn’t control his eating habits, and that kept him from making it. There are so many stories like that, especially in New York City. People who could have made it but didn’t because they lacked the discipline or made bad decisions."
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