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woodchuck said:
For real?:smh:
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It's been an issue for him, not sure how much it played in to it, but at SJ functions, especially last summer that was a hot topic and if anyone has been in his air space, he can be quite opinionated about things, especially his religious views, which I don't have a problem with, but in certain environments you have to adjust. It wasn't something that was spoken about in too many circles, but people who know him who went to the school, etc., have even stated that he's said he believes that was an issue, and he 'would not compromise' his relationship with God for anything...

Again, I wasn't saying it in a context of being wrong, but in the context of, 'they' will use anything against 'us' to further their agenda.

His issue is similar to Marshawn Lynch in my opinion, GS ownership saw they were on the cusp of something great, and decided covertly to put another face on the franchise when they crossed that threshold. I definitely don't agree with how things went down, but my point was, regardless of the reasons for his firing, it's disrespectful to Kerr, Curry and the team to make THIS moment about anything else BUT them. If Kerr took over mid season, after they were already in first place, etc., there may be a valid point here, BUT they are an entire season, training camp, off season acquisitions who played key roles, etc., removed from Mark, so in my opinon they owe him nothing...

Here's a piece of an article from a local paper back when he was fired. Not saying it's true, but the 'smoke' was there:

http://blog.sfgate.com/killion/2014/05/06/jacksons-religious-views-an-issue-with-warriors/

Instead this was an off the court decision. Everything about Jackson was under scrutiny, which includes his very public persona as a religious man. It was probably not at the top of the list, but was probably on the list. I don’t know if Jackson’s strong, strong religious beliefs alienated anyone in the building. I’ve heard that the team wasn’t happy that he made it a priority to get back to his LA-based church to preach as often as possible. I’ve heard that he occasionally referred to individuals he didn’t like as “the devil.” And I found it weird to be sitting in a press conference next to a young woman who kept trying to get Jackson’s attention by calling him “pastor.”

But I’ve often wondered how comfortable it was for Jackson and team president Rick Welts to co-exist in the same organization. Welts is openly gay, becoming the first high-ranking executive in professional sports to come out back in 2011. He’s a strong, professional leader who is excellent at his job. Jackson is a fundamental Christian, who embraces what some call “traditional values”. And he wasn’t shy about letting people know his views.
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FJP said:
OAKLAND -- Even if the injured LeBron James were playing Friday night when the Cleveland Cavaliers come to town, it's unlikely he'd create the buzz that Mark Jackson will in his first appearance at Oracle Arena since being fired last May.

Jackson is part of the broadcast team for ESPN's national telecast of Golden State's game against the Cavs, sitting right across the court from co-owner Joe Lacob, the man who fired him. It promises to be awkward for team management, coach Steve Kerr and perhaps Jackson himself. But not for many Warriors players, who are excited and anticipate an emotional return.


Stephen Curry, who was vocal in his opposition to Jackson's firing, acknowledged that it will be a bit weird having his former coach at courtside, on the opposite side from the Warriors' bench at a broadcasters table.

"It will feel strange at the beginning, but then everybody will get back to doing their job," Curry said. "I'm sure he's happy to be covering basketball, commentating, and is at peace with where he's at. I'm sure the fans will give him a great reception, which he deserves for the work he did here. I hope that happens. Then we'll get to the business of playing basketball like usual.

"I can't wait to give him a big hug," guard Klay Thompson said. "It'll be strange not hearing him speak, because I love hearing him commentate. But it'll be cool to see him. He's a great friend and a great mentor to me. We absolutely would not be where we are now without him."


What was yall saying about the players not liking him again???????
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Basically
 
FJP said:
OAKLAND -- Even if the injured LeBron James were playing Friday night when the Cleveland Cavaliers come to town, it's unlikely he'd create the buzz that Mark Jackson will in his first appearance at Oracle Arena since being fired last May.

Jackson is part of the broadcast team for ESPN's national telecast of Golden State's game against the Cavs, sitting right across the court from co-owner Joe Lacob, the man who fired him. It promises to be awkward for team management, coach Steve Kerr and perhaps Jackson himself. But not for many Warriors players, who are excited and anticipate an emotional return.


Stephen Curry, who was vocal in his opposition to Jackson's firing, acknowledged that it will be a bit weird having his former coach at courtside, on the opposite side from the Warriors' bench at a broadcasters table.

"It will feel strange at the beginning, but then everybody will get back to doing their job," Curry said. "I'm sure he's happy to be covering basketball, commentating, and is at peace with where he's at. I'm sure the fans will give him a great reception, which he deserves for the work he did here. I hope that happens. Then we'll get to the business of playing basketball like usual.

"I can't wait to give him a big hug," guard Klay Thompson said. "It'll be strange not hearing him speak, because I love hearing him commentate. But it'll be cool to see him. He's a great friend and a great mentor to me. We absolutely would not be where we are now without him."


What was yall saying about the players not liking him again???????
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I actually remember Steph coming out in defense of him when there were rumors of him getting fired. I'm sure some the players appreciated him for the coach he was, and the mentor he was being a former great player... however, the only problem with that is: They aren't the ones signing the checks or making the hiring and firing decisions so... :dunno:
 
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I actually remember Steph coming out in defense of him when there were rumors of him getting fired. I'm sure some the players appreciated him for the coach he was, and the mentor he was being a former great player... however, the only problem with that is: They aren't the ones signing the checks or making the hiring and firing decisions so... :dunno:
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When it was mentioned that the players did not give him thanks you clearly insinuated that they didn't have love for him saying "maybe that tells you something." You said this ain't his team and he doesn't deserve credit yet well into a great season the star players gave him tons of credit...Klay gave him all the credit.
 
FJP said:
OAKLAND -- Even if the injured LeBron James were playing Friday night when the Cleveland Cavaliers come to town, it's unlikely he'd create the buzz that Mark Jackson will in his first appearance at Oracle Arena since being fired last May.

Jackson is part of the broadcast team for ESPN's national telecast of Golden State's game against the Cavs, sitting right across the court from co-owner Joe Lacob, the man who fired him. It promises to be awkward for team management, coach Steve Kerr and perhaps Jackson himself. But not for many Warriors players, who are excited and anticipate an emotional return.


Stephen Curry, who was vocal in his opposition to Jackson's firing, acknowledged that it will be a bit weird having his former coach at courtside, on the opposite side from the Warriors' bench at a broadcasters table.

"It will feel strange at the beginning, but then everybody will get back to doing their job," Curry said. "I'm sure he's happy to be covering basketball, commentating, and is at peace with where he's at. I'm sure the fans will give him a great reception, which he deserves for the work he did here. I hope that happens. Then we'll get to the business of playing basketball like usual.

"I can't wait to give him a big hug," guard Klay Thompson said. "It'll be strange not hearing him speak, because I love hearing him commentate. But it'll be cool to see him. He's a great friend and a great mentor to me. We absolutely would not be where we are now without him."


What was yall saying about the players not liking him again???????
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The players liked him

He didn't get along with the front office and that's why he is gone

I thought everyone knew that
 
FJP said:
When it was mentioned that the players did not give him thanks you clearly insinuated that they didn't have love for him saying "maybe that tells you something." You said this ain't his team and he doesn't deserve credit yet well into a great season the star players gave him tons of credit...Klay gave him all the credit.
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I hear you, and again, Curry, Klay, only represent a small portion of the team, not every player spoke out on his behalf and not every player has given him 'credit'...

My post wasn't a shit on Jackson post, it was a put things in perspective post.

I wrote 3 paragraphs of opinion, and I still stand by my overall viewpoint:

The team owes him nothing-
It would be disrespectful to do anything like this right now to the current staff and players, this is THEIR moment not his...
The issues he was fired for had nothing to do with the court-

He will land another coaching job based on his on court achievements... :hmm:
 
D-TOWN REP said:
The players liked him

He didn't get along with the front office and that's why he is gone

I thought everyone knew that
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Basically... and it's that same front office who he obviously didn't get along with who:

Makes the decision to 'honor' him or not AND
- still employs the players on the team. SO... Who do you 'ride' with, the people signing your check and the coach you play for, who has led you to the championship game OR a coach who can at this point do nothing for you...

This is a business, not a social club :hmm:
 
IT IS WHAT IT IS said:
One more thing about Mark Jackson. This Oh Poor Mark and the Warriors owe Mark and this is Marks team is bullshit. Mark coached the team, Mark was paid well for coaching the team, Mark while being a great coach, had his issues... being stubborn, imposing his religious beliefs on his team, etc. and frankly, while there is this sympathy train for him, no way in hell do you disrespect your current coach, whose regime has gotten you this far, in possibly the biggest moment in franchise history, by giving shine to an ex-coach. That's like a wife giving a toast to her ex at her wedding reception. Shit makes no sense...

The Warriors owe Mark nothing. This is Steve Kerr's moment and the teams moment, not Mark's. The fact that none of the players really have said anything COULD be telling about the true nature of the relationship with the players and their former coach.

Mark showed a lot of class, a hell of a lot of professionalism to call games for a team that he clearly has emotional ties to, and I have gained a lot of respect for him for that, more than anything he's done as a player or a coach, but this the Warriors should do more for him stuff is ridiculous...

And as I've said before, I absolutely LOVE Mark Jackson, went to college with him, played pickup ball with him, been in his space (30 years ago but still) so this is not personal.

He wasn't the GM, Director of Player Personnel, Head Scout, none of that during his time there, so this 'This was HIS team' stuff is incorrect...

He will land on his feet one day real soon... GS owes him absolutely nothing... :hmm:
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The players do talk to Mark tho. They always speak to him after the game or go to the broadcast table. But I agree there was no need to make this about Mark during that time.
 
IT IS WHAT IT IS said:
It's been an issue for him, not sure how much it played in to it, but at SJ functions, especially last summer that was a hot topic and if anyone has been in his air space, he can be quite opinionated about things, especially his religious views, which I don't have a problem with, but in certain environments you have to adjust. It wasn't something that was spoken about in too many circles, but people who know him who went to the school, etc., have even stated that he's said he believes that was an issue, and he 'would not compromise' his relationship with God for anything...

Again, I wasn't saying it in a context of being wrong, but in the context of, 'they' will use anything against 'us' to further their agenda.

His issue is similar to Marshawn Lynch in my opinion, GS ownership saw they were on the cusp of something great, and decided covertly to put another face on the franchise when they crossed that threshold. I definitely don't agree with how things went down, but my point was, regardless of the reasons for his firing, it's disrespectful to Kerr, Curry and the team to make THIS moment about anything else BUT them. If Kerr took over mid season, after they were already in first place, etc., there may be a valid point here, BUT they are an entire season, training camp, off season acquisitions who played key roles, etc., removed from Mark, so in my opinon they owe him nothing...

Here's a piece of an article from a local paper back when he was fired. Not saying it's true, but the 'smoke' was there:

http://blog.sfgate.com/killion/2014/05/06/jacksons-religious-views-an-issue-with-warriors/
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Him "finding God" is what made him snitch on everybody during the Gold Club scandal. Instead of just him coming clean to his wife, he said that everybody needed to man up, and told on everybody. :smh: I think he ratted out Ewing first.
 
Jackson basically called the owner a faggit. Which he is. He also was being held hostage by a pimp and prostitute. That can't happen.
 
HeathCliff said:
But Pooh couldn't make it out the weak ass East tho :hmm:
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We got sabotaged

fO and coach beefing

Coach beefing with ownership and management

Played beefing with each other

We didn't have our act together

Coaches taking secret meetings


Front Office was bugging asst coaches offices .

Just a Cesspool of supreme fuckery

I hope we purge all this garbage like in 2001

Get rid of everything

Firesale

Pooh gonna still be there tho
 
shaddyvillethug said:
We got sabotaged

fO and coach beefing

Coach beefing with ownership and management

Played beefing with each other

We didn't have our act together

Coaches taking secret meetings


Front Office was bugging asst coaches offices .

Just a Cesspool of supreme fuckery

But the better team won
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Fixed
 
SIDESHOW said:
N4dEVkN.jpg
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Bass mouf ass fool :hmm:
 
shaddyvillethug said:
Can't wait till silver take out these garbage markets
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1 New York, NY 51
2 Los Angeles, CA
3 Chicago, IL
4 Philadelphia, PA
5 Dallas-Ft. Worth, TX
6 San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose, CA

Media market is strong, and Warriors have the best home attendance in the league.
 
Ladewski: Finally in NBA Finals, Warriors Need to Get Healthy, Too


It wasn’t that long ago when Golden State Warriors fans booed team owner Joe Lacob at Oracle Arena — at a Chris Mullin jersey retirement ceremony, no less. Lacob had failed to deliver on some bold promises at that point, and – coupled with the trade of local favorite Monta Ellis – he made for a convenient target at the time.’

A lot has changed in the Bay Area in the three years since, as anyone at Game 5 of the Western Conference finals couldn’t help but notice Wednesday night. The Warriors are in the NBA Finals for the first time in 40 years, sending the Houston Rockets home for the summer with a 104-90 victory.

And nobody enjoyed it more than the guy with an NBA Finals cap on his head and a Pepsi in hand.

“I’m ecstatic for them,” Lacob said of the fans who stuck by the team through the down times. “I was a fan here, too, people have to understand — from the ‘80s, you know. So I’ve been in that position. I know what they’ve gone through. This team wasn’t very good for a long, long time.”

Now the Warriors are a very good team, and as a result of some good moves and good fortune, they’re in position to stay there for a while.

In case you hadn’t noticed, this is not your older brother’s NBA. And the Warriors are one of the teams that gets it. They have a franchise player in Stephen Curry and two other legit All-Star talents in Klay Thompson and Draymond Green. They can shoot the 3-ball and defend against it. They have athletic types such as Harrison Barnes and Andre Iguodala who can be mixed and matched at either end of the court.

And in Steve Kerr and his staff, they have coaches who understand the importance of ball movement and team defense. They don’t look the part on paper necessarily, but there’s a reason why the Warriors have won 79 games with at least four more to be played this season.

For their part, the Rockets also had of those same things. In the final analysis, they didn’t have nearly enough of them.

“Six years is a long time to wait,” Curry said of his frustration. “Obviously, the Bay Area has been waiting 40-plus years. I think it’s time.”

Now the Warriors will face LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers in the NBA Finals, their biggest (only?) test of the postseason.

James has that look again, but never mind him for now. The key to the series will be Cavs All-Star guard Kyrie Irving and his sore left knee and strained right foot. As dominant as James has been recently, he can’t beat a team as deep and talented as the Warriors by himself. He needs someone to ride shotgun, and Irving is the only one capable of it.

Irving and the Cavaliers will not have played for eight days before the June 4 opener, and the extended layoff could not have come at a better time for them. But once Irving returns to the court again — he will be matched against Curry a lot of the time – all that wear and tear will begin to accumulate again.

So the big question isn’t how Irving will feel at the start of the series, but what he will be like at the end of it.

As drop-dead good as the Warriors have been this season, they have lived a charmed life along the way. They’ve been unusually healthy, something they had not been in recent years. Somehow, they avoided the Los Angeles Clippers and San Antonio Spurs, the two teams that figured to give them the most trouble in the playoffs.

Their luck changed dramatically in a span of three days. In Game 4, Curry took a horrific fall that turned him into a human bruise. He started the next game with a sleeve on his right shooting elbow before he did away with it after a slow start.

The speculation was that Curry might be hurt even more than he let on earlier in the day, when he admitted to reporters, “My whole right side took the brunt of that force — and my head. It’s basically like a bruise all the way up and down your body that you’ve just got to deal with.”

In the series clincher, Iguodala suffered “a little stinger” when Rockets big man Dwight Howard rocked him on a pick in the neck area. The far bigger concern was the status of Thompson, who was kneed in the head by Rockets forward Trevor Ariza earlier in the game. After Thompson required three stitches to close a laceration on his ear, he was cleared to play – only to develop concussion-like symptoms after the game.

It was an eventual night for Thompson, who regained his shooting stroke in the last two games after shooting just 18-of-49 in the first three. He finished with 20 points and no doubt would have had more if Kerr hadn’t made a rookie mistake in the third quarter, when the coach kept him in the game long enough to pick up his fifth foul.

“We got a week off or close to it,” Thompson said. “I’ll be all right. I’ll get my health back.”

At the start of the week, the Warriors would have been an easier pick in the series. But just like that, the Splash Brothers have become the Bruise Brothers, while Irving has been able to stay off his feet for a while. Now this one has seven games written all over it.

Paul Ladewski is a veteran Chicago sports journalist who recently relocated to the Bay Area
 
shaddyvillethug said:
We quit

fO and coach beefing

Coach beefing with ownership and management

Played beefing with each other

We didn't have our act together

Coaches taking secret meetings


Front Office was bugging asst coaches offices .

Just a Cesspool of supreme fuckery

I hope we purge all this garbage like in 2001

Get rid of everything

Firesale

Pooh gonna still be there tho
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fixed
 
spider705 said:
I think that guy is a functioning retard...

That's just a ignorant fuckin rant.
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:yes:

D-TOWN REP said:
The players liked him

He didn't get along with the front office and that's why he is gone
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Which is why i found it disappointing that none of them spoke of him last nite.

Dr. Truth said:
Jackson basically called the owner a faggit. Which he is. He also was being held hostage by a pimp and prostitute. That can't happen.
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Rev was getting extorted for them dic pix. :smh:
 
mrJR said:
1 New York, NY 51
2 Los Angeles, CA
3 Chicago, IL
4 Philadelphia, PA
5 Dallas-Ft. Worth, TX
6 San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose, CA

Media market is strong, and Warriors have the best home attendance in the league.
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Exactly

Warriors ARE NOT a small market team

I don't know why niggas say that
 
It's going to be an intriguing series. I'm not afraid to admit that I was completely wrong about the Cavs and Warriors making it to the 'ship. Much deserved for both teams.

I think this series is going to be a lot better than people are willing to give credit to.
 

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