Originally it seemed gracious in his questionable termination as the Warriors head coach when he released a statement thanking the organization for giving him the opportunity. But that graciousness didn’t last long as he went on several media outlets and ripped the front office for how they handled business.
During an appearance on 95.7 The Game: “I wake up absolutely relieved. Because there’s no more unnamed sources that can affect me. I don’t have to answer the question that others won’t answer. I can speak clearly about who I am and how I conduct myself. It’s unfortunate, because everything that the unnamed sources said – that I was done if I did not get out of the first round, that there was friction, that there was this and there was that – and there was claimed to be no unnamed sources. Well, it’s come out true. The unfortunate thing is I go in an office with an owner and a general manager, just us three, and while in our office it’s tweeted out that I’m in a meeting and I’m about to be fired, that’s not how you conduct business. And if that’s how business relationships are supposed to be done well then they’re 100% right, I did not conduct business the right way if that’s the right way. And that’s unfortunate.
Jackson also ripped his assistant coaches and compared his time at Golden State with going through the pains of carry a baby but as soon as it’s born someone else gets to raise it.
On the Dan Patrick Show, Jackson talked about the mid-season changes he made with his staff, saying “things had to change.”
“What happens is, in this business, you got assistants are people who all of a sudden see, if I say we should’ve did this and I say we should’ve did that, all of a sudden I might move up the charts,” Jackson said. “So you create an environment where people begin to just give a little bit of gray area, and who knows? And that’s not fair to anybody. And it’s unfortunate, but there’s a reason that what happened with my two guys happened. That’s just a fact.”
“I had a lot invested,” Jackson said. “I talked about it in my meeting. The unfortunate thing is the pregnancy happened, the baby was carried for nine months or for three years, they watched the labor pains and being in the hospital and somebody else is going sit there and be able to grab the head of the baby when it’s born.”
Good for Mark going in on the Warriors front office. Although I firmly believe in professionalism, and I personally don’t think his comments showed a lack of it, sometimes you have to let folk know how you really feel.
H/T: FTW