Stephen Jackson talks about being released

[EricB]

Yep I saw this article yesterday.

If you look back at the RJ for SJax trade thread, there was a certain poster that didn't like the trade because of Jack's ego issues. Everyone scoffed at that poster. Turns out he was right.

Still was a good trade.

[timtonymanu]

Still was a good trade.

Oh yeah for sure. I'm not angry about the trade. Just upset Jack handled it this way.

[purist]

Damn I love me some Stephen Jackson but he should know better than to do something like this. My guess is that Stephen Jacksons mere presence in the locker room was causing division thus his Exodus. Some players probably were taking sides and Pop hates and eliminates any distractions.

Pop is a real professional and so is Jackson. I assume they came to a mutual agreement to part ways peacefully.

What part of Jackson is professional? Professionals don't go into stands to fight fans. And they certainly don't burn all the bridges jack has. Professionals shut their mouths and get to work just like Tim Duncan. He is professional - the epitome.

[jag]

Yep I saw this article yesterday.

If you look back at the RJ for SJax trade thread, there was a certain poster that didn't like the trade because of Jack's ego issues. Everyone scoffed at that poster. Turns out he was right.

I don't think anyone cares.

[BackHome]

I think that article "Most overpaid players" really got to him and PRIDE was his downfall. I think he really wanted to show people that he could play and he was worth the amount of money he was making which we all know wasn't true.

Still Pop and RC should have seen this coming if he was barking about being traded at all star break and we didn't do it that and the fact we never got a backup PG pisses me off.

[Budkin]

I'm still bummed. Really liked Jack.

[spursncowboys]

How soon he forgets 2003 and the fact that players like Steve Smith and Danny Ferry cheered from the bench as younger more inexperienced players played for and won a championship. It would have been very easy for someone as accomplished as Smith to complain that he was better than Jackson based on his history. Instead, he acted like a leader. Jackson will always be one of my favorite players for his heart and effort, but he played like crap this year and it was difficult to watch. Lenard is clearly the better player and if Jackson can't see that then its obviously that he does not realize that the wheels are falling off.

Agreed. However the spurs should have gotten rid of him when there was an opportunity for him to go to a different team.

[shyne]

All I know is if Tony or Manu drive the lane and get intentionally smashed, someone better step the up and get their backs. We all know jack would have.

[Sec24Row7]

What a cliche...

[Floyd Pacquiao]

delusional...you know i woulda thought jack would grow out of that and get wiser as he's grown older.

[Fabbs]

Was it over Bonbon?

[Poolboy5623]

Which is one of the two prestigious ways you could have used (along with, "That makes no sense"). But you said he should have said, "That don't make sense," which is also very non-prestigious. Negative concord is a pretty common thing in other languages (like Spanish), but subject-verb disagreement is not correct in any language that makes a singular/plural distinction. No one thinks, "He go to the store every Sunday" is proper English.

I hear ya...and that's what I thought you meant. Problem is, I was in deep on that one. I did say that Jackson should have said, "that don't make sense"...however, I was into the frame of mind that Jackson would be saying it, with his type of language....not me, or anyone else. I already knew he wasn't capable of using the correct language, so I figured he could just drop the "no" in his original statement of "that don't make no sense"...he's got two negatives in 5 words. That would've at least made it easier to read, w/o having to worry about the rest of it being a mess. I know, I'm all over, but it makes sense.

[ALVAREZ6]

He'll have fun contributing to the worst team in the league in 2013-2014, the Bobcats. It'll be a nice return to Charlotte.

[Poolboy5623]

He'll have fun contributing to the worst team in the league in 2013-2014, the Bobcats. It'll be a nice return to Charlotte.

...and according to jack, everything he touches turns to gold..so they'll get back to the playoffs?

[Spurs7794]

What the was Jackson complaining about? Minutes and his role? HE PLAYED 20 MPG THIS SEASON. WTF more did he expect? He played 2/3 the amount of minutes as Duncan...a top 5 player in the league. Jax was a bottom 5 offensive player this year. Was he really that delusional???

[Leetonidas]

Jackson is not better than Leonard, it's arguable if he ever was a better overall player than Leonard at any point in his career. Dude is a ing POS for sabotaging the team and not accepting his role. He was ing garbage every time he played this season, is he ing delusional or something? This isn't 2007 anymore you dumb , no one gives a what you and Baron Davis did to Dallas anymore, it's ancient history. 6 years later, get with the ing times.

[Leetonidas]

btw he's seriously re ed if he thinks anyone is going to take a chance on him after Popovich cut his ass a week before the playoffs with an ailing roster. That says a lot

[Sean Cagney]

I still remember him last year and how happy he was to so called be home and saying he wanted to retire here, then I read up there he wanted to be on other teams? He flat out said he at around the all star break wanted to be released, from the place he just called home when things were better and said he wanted to retire a Spur. I remember him saying he missed it in SA all the time and to an extent wished he never left! So much for that.

[Aggie Hoopsfan]

Sad. Who cares what he was shooting in the regular season? Dude was ing nails in the playoffs. If they would have given him another ten shots in game 6 against OKC last year, he would have gotten us to a game 7. No one seemed to mind Horry sucking in the regular season and showing up for the playoffs. It shouldn't have mattered for Buckets either.

[Spursfanfromafar]

While I don't have a problem with the Jackson release, it was the timing that was the issue. They could have gotten him to go much earlier before the ASB or before the trade deadline and could have integrated a SF backup better. Who knows, if Gelabale could have played for the Spurs instead of the T'Wolves first, or some such. What the Spurs got hit was "opportunity" cost by letting Jackson go so late in the season.

[Chinook]

I hear ya...and that's what I thought you meant. Problem is, I was in deep on that one. I did say that Jackson should have said, "that don't make sense"...however, I was into the frame of mind that Jackson would be saying it, with his type of language....not me, or anyone else. I already knew he wasn't capable of using the correct language, so I figured he could just drop the "no" in his original statement of "that don't make no sense"...he's got two negatives in 5 words. That would've at least made it easier to read, w/o having to worry about the rest of it being a mess. I know, I'm all over, but it makes sense.

No, I don't think you understand what I'm saying. Jackson would have used negative concord, because that is a much stronger feature of his dialect than subject-verb disagreement is. Framing uses of language as correct or incorrect is misleading, because it's all relative. Jack didn't say that because he's too dumb to know how to say it the way you would; he said it because that just how it's said in his dialect. Honestly, the implication that Jack's "incapable of using the correct language" just because you aren't versed in his dialect is sort of insulting. It's like saying that Southerners are ignorant for using the word "leapt" instead of "leaped", even though the former is also the standard in the UK. What's taught as proper grammar in English class is completely different than what is seen as proper grammar in the real world.

[justinandimcool]

Pop is a dumbass, Jack a bigger dumbass. Dude doesn't care about championships or teammates, just playing time. I respect that, but he's not a Spur. No way. Has nothing to with classyball, just know your role and prove your worth. Anything above 25mpg for Jack would've been a disaster.

[FkLA]

tbf Jack was 26-43 (60%) from deep last years playoffs despite shooting 30% in the regular season, and obviously the has balls of steel as well so I think there definitely is a possibility the Spurs end up missing him offensively tbh. His defense will likely be missed as well. With that said if he was constantly crying about minutes or an extension and was being as delusional as he sounds in the interview than him tbh.

[Sean Cagney]

tbf Jack was 26-43 (60%) from deep last years playoffs despite shooting 30% in the regular season, and obviously the has balls of steel as well so I think there definitely is a possibility the Spurs end up missing him offensively tbh. His defense will likely be missed as well. With that said if he was constantly crying about minutes or an extension and was being as delusional as he sounds in the interview than him tbh.

See some say about Bonners % all year or Greens 43% this year, but does it go up that much in the playoffs? NO it drops alot! Jax shot 60% in the playoffs, thats a player who has that IT factor when it really counts and not one of those bums who does good all year but dissapears when it counts. I had no clue he shot that good, thats excellent! He had that IT factor, most of our guys sides Manu, Tim and at times TONY have that IT!

[Strategic]

Indeed. Tim Duncan better be glad he's never said anything like this. He ass would have gotten put on the bus and the Spurs would have just rolled with the next man up.

If he acts like a hoodlum, doesn't do his job for most of a year and then doesn't really want to contribute in the role that the team needs him to(all just random examples), then maybe so. I don't really see Tim getting himself in that position. Do you? I think Duncan has made it clear the manner in which he will exit, but no matter, he will be replaced by another(lesser) player.