If you’ve been under a rock for the past week or so, then you probably miss Warriors owner Joe Lacob shredding former head coach Mark Jackson.
Lacob blasted Jackson for “not getting along with anyone” and refusing to hire good assistants. Jackson has responded to Lacob, and went in on the Warriors owner during a Sunday sermon.
via Inside Bay Area:
Smiling as he spoke to members of the congregation, Jackson said in recorded comments that Lacob “said I was good for nothing, an owner that knew me for three years and spent a couple of minutes around me, an owner that had the audacity to say that 200 folks don’t like me in the business.”
An ordained minister, Jackson made the remarks at True Love Worship Center International in Reseda. They came two days after Lacob said he reached out to Jackson regarding comments made last week about the coach’s firing.
“Part of it was that he couldn’t get along with anybody else in the organization,” Lacob said Wednesday at a venture capitalists luncheon in recorded comments. “And look, he did a great job, and I’ll always compliment him in many respects, but you can’t have 200 people in the organization not like you.”
Lacob, who apologized in an email Sunday, said in May on the day he fired Jackson that the decision “was based on what was good for the organization as a whole. And when I say the organization as a whole I don’t mean just the team and just the 15 players that are involved and the coaching staff. I mean everybody. There’s 200 employees here.”
Jackson did not return a message seeking comment Friday when Lacob’s comments were published.