Free agent coaches are starting to go on interviews to get one of the coaching jobs that are available.
The Kings job was recently filled by Warriors assistant coach Mike Brown but there are still a few jobs available.
One of the coaches that is vying for one of those jobs is former Warriors head coach Mark Jackson. He hasn’t coached since the 2013-14 season and some think he’s being blackballed by teams because of some of the stances he had while being the Warriors coach.
It seemed like he has a pretty good shot at getting one of the available jobs so of course news of a 2016 ESPN The Magazine story over the rise of the Warriors is coming back to life because the story apparently makes him look bad.
According to reporter Ethan Strauss, the story was spiked by ESPN because the Mark Jackson stuff was “too incendiary.” In the story it alleged that he had a cult like atmosphere of “us against them,” he ramped up his religious talk in his last days as coach and that divided the team, said that people under him were being influenced by the devil and he was going to lay hands on them, and that he would call president of the team, Rick Welts and Jason Collins, who are both openly gay, “penis grabbers.”
This story could have come out at any time during the last 8 years he hasn’t been a coach but it resurfaces now that he has a good shot at another coaching gig. Seems a little weird.
One has to wonder what is the motivation of Strauss putting this out now? It isn’t like anyone was asking for this story.
Very interesting timing to say the least, what do you think about Stauss putting out this information right in the middle of Jackson interviewing for jobs.
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