Stu Jackson
Stu Jackson
Stuart Wayne "Stu" Jacksonis an American former head coach and the former Executive Vice President in the National Basketball Association. He has coached two different NBA teams: the New York Knicks in 1990 and 1991, and the Vancouver Grizzlies in 1997 and served as the Grizzlies' general manager. Currently, Jackson serves as the Associate Commissioner for the Big East...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth11 December 1955
CountryUnited States of America
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Certainly the message was very clear after the Nov. 19 incident in that it was clear to our players that they were not to enter the stands under any circumstances. Certainly this suspension is evident to the fact that we're very serious about that declaration. We realize there were some mitigating circumstances and we did in fact take that into account.
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The process relies heavily on general managers and player personnel directors whose daily responsibility is to handicap the draft and evaluate players. As we get closer to the draft, they have a pretty accurate idea as to team needs. And certainly they're pretty accurate in most cases.
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We tried to as best we could to maintain affiliations in close proximity, ... We certainly are not going to get every necessary tie between an NBA D-League team and an NBA team.
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Last year certainly there was a great deal of emphasis on the forearm check, just as there is this year. But that has stayed about the same this year.
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In general, fans do not want to see a rumble. They want to see the most graceful game on the planet. Contact occurs, and our objective is to make sure the game is played safely.
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We felt since neither team played (Thursday), we had some extra time to review the situation. There is no black mark for Ray. It is one incident and you move on and hope it doesn't happen again. We had not received anything on our desk from either player before, so we wanted to make sure we talked to everybody.
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The original idea behind the clear path foul was we didn't want them to occur. But now, when they do occur, the offended team is not getting the yield point-wise that they should be.
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This was another perfect storm of sorts in that the timing was such that he wasn't available.
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At the end of the day, what we had to decide on was the issue of Antonio breaking the barrier from the court into the stands.
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These affiliations and the assignment system are really going to benefit both the players and the teams,
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These affiliations and assignment systems will, for the players, provide them with the opportunity to get playing time.
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This is really going to benefit the players and teams in our league,
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A flagrant foul is unnecessary and excessive. And in my mind, that's what that was. It was an unnecessary play, and it was excessive in how hard he hit him. The referee did the right thing in calling a Flagrant 2.
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Ron has been exemplary this season in terms of his behavior on the court. My hope is that it is an isolated incident and that he'll continue to play the high level of basketball that he's been playing at.