Stephen Jackson on Malice at the Palace brawl: “I definitely regret it because that didn’t happen too. That incident cost me a lot of All-Star games. You know what I’m saying? $3 million and court fees and all that stuff.
So, yeah, I definitely regret it. If anybody that was involved in that say they don’t regret it, they lying. I definitely regret it because it put a cloud over me, too. But what I don’t regret is being there for my teammate, right? You throw a beer in anybody’s face around the world, that’s assault. But it’s not assault when you’re dealing with a tall, black, rich, black athlete. You know what I mean? So, I get it. But I would rather be there for my friends and be known for that than being one of the guys walking off and one of my teammates getting stumped out in the stands.”
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Stephen Jackson: I didn’t admire Michael Jordan. I admired Kobe Bryant because he was the same age as me. And the dedication that he put as a teenager, I didn’t think was real.
Like, you know what I’m saying? Like he was just so different. McDonald’s, we all at the McDonald’s game. All there for the same reasons. I should have won MVP that game. We going to McDonald’s after practice. He says ‘I see y’all. I’m not eating that sh*t.’ This is in high school. Everybody eat McDonald’s in high school! Everybody still eat to this day. I don’t, but everybody eat McDonald’s in high school! The Big Mac and two fries and strawberry shake, apple pie. Everybody had that. Not Kobe. Not Kobe Bean Bryant. -via YouTube
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Byron Scott. Game seven. You need a bucket. You got two players. Which one of these two you gonna give it to? MJ or Kobe? Stephen Jackson: I’m giving it to Kobe because just off the simple fact that I know he’s going to get us a good shot. I
know it. And I know we going to get an attempt. You know, you might double him and we seen him get doubled and make the pass, the right pass. If Kobe gets the ball, we going to get a shot up. I don’t care if it might be over four or five people and the odds of him making it than the other four people on the court is totally different. So I’m going with Kobe. Off the top. -via YouTube
/ June 17, 2025
Matt Barnes: What’s the difference between those two in your opinion? Craig Hodges: Right hand. Barnes: Why? Hodges: Because Kobe would be going to the line to shoot two, MJ was going to shoot the and one.
So a lot of them knocks that Kobe had to shoot with two hands when that knock would happen, MJ put that bad boy over here. You know what I’m saying? Stephen Jackson: Oh, that’s the difference, huh? Okay. Hodges: That is the only difference, it’s that gripper. Him and Dr. J (Julius Erving). -via YouTube
/ May 3, 2025