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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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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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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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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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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The teams are responsible for holding the players to compliance. Our teams placed the orders with Reebok. Our teams are responsible for putting the players out on the court with a uniform that is in compliance. To say that Reebok is the issue, I think, is a bit misguided.
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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.
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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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I was happy working for the N.B.A., but to be honest, I decided that I'd probably get back into coaching. I missed the teaching, I missed the games, I missed the competition.
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The 3Â has become a real focal point of offenses, and we would like to turn the clock back and see what the game is like without it,
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I wouldn't call it a controversy. I'd call it some questions being asked: 'Do we have the best rules?
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We're looking at the severity of the conduct, whether a player wound up and followed through. It was a hard foul, but I did not feel it was flagrant -- and I've reviewed hundreds of these.