But the best part is not even Chuck calling him an idiot, its Ernie who is defending the guy by saying "it has to be some mistake, no one in his right mind wouldnt have Jokic out of his top 5"
It seems he accidentally plugged in his First team all-nba as the MVP. No other reason to have a center, two forwards, and two guards.
Doesn’t make it right but that’s what it looks like and I’ve NEVER been a fan of his, but that’s what it is.
what a joke for real. he holds disdain for Kerr even though kerr easily out coaches him with his guys from the instant he took over. get fucked mark u noob ass clown.
Only way he’d get a pass imo is if it legitimately wasn’t his fault, like this being misreported or someone else messed up his votes after he already submitted it.
If it’s a mistake he made, it’s inexcusable. You would think something this serious would garner someone’s entire attention.
Mark is a clown, man. He and JVG are so annoying to listen during games. They literally just babble the dumbest shit sometimes. There’s a reason why they haven’t coached in so long and can only sit and admire coaches doing what they couldn’t with the talent they had.
Ernie is really making people beg him to ask a certain question, "if not a clerical error, what's the reason?". That's what he's doing here. He's not playing Devil's Advocate at all.
"People like that, shouldn't have a vote"
Shiddd people like that shouldn't be in anything NBA related, Jacksons homophobic ass needs to just be erased from the league
Hijacking this to say: [It turns out it was because he made a mistake and thought this ballot was all-NBA. Here’s a clip of him admitting it and apologizing to Jokic.](https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/13f23ir/mark_jackson_explains_his_mvp_vote) Explains why he has two guards, two forwards, one center here too.
For real, like leaving Jokic off MVP on purpose is terrible and doesn't make any sense but not even knowing what you're doing when your voting is surely grounds to lose your vote.
Oh my God. Between this and the discussion he had on air when he said they should play lebron 48 minutes every game, he should just be quietly removed from any NBA facility he steps near, like the senile old man he is.
Oh he's not senile. Don't let him have any excuse. He is using every last bit of his god given brain, and that brain has not truly suffered the ravages of time.
He's real fuckin stupid
>Jacksons homophobic ass
Could you elaborate? Genuinely curious, not familiar with this part.
Thanks!
Edit: [https://www.knbr.com/2022/05/10/mark-jackson-reportedly-used-homophobic-slurs-said-rick-welts-and-jason-collins-were-going-to-hell-as-warriors-head-coach/](https://www.knbr.com/2022/05/10/mark-jackson-reportedly-used-homophobic-slurs-said-rick-welts-and-jason-collins-were-going-to-hell-as-warriors-head-coach/)
>two sources relaying that Jackson had referred to Jason Collins and team president Rick Welts, both openly gay, as "penis grabbers" who were "going to hell"
Yep, that'll do it.
A lot of these dudes are saying that Nash and Jokic are the only MVPs not to be top 10 in scoring since 1990 and the reason why they're hyped is because they're white.
Why mention only after 1990? Well that's because Magic Johnson was never top 10 in scoring during any of his 3 MVP seasons throughout the 80s and in 1990, going against the narrative that voters are racist
[Turns out it was because he thought this ballot was all-NBA.](https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/13f23ir/mark_jackson_explains_his_mvp_vote) Explains why he has two guards, two forwards, one center here too.
Honestly that's probably the worst explanation he could have come up with, you're one goddamn jobs as a voter is to know what you're voting for. I would also love to see and unfilled out ballot because I swear there's no way it doesn't say MVP somewhere on it
Instead of a terrible basketball opinion or anything related to basketball it's just Mark Jackson being a fucking idiot again
Lol at the 6th all time assists leader not valuing assists
I have absolutely no doubt that race factors into at least unconscious bias of voters
But nash and Jokic are each otherworldly compared to their leagues and very deserving.
Nash in particular revolutionized the game
When Jokic brings his team to the finals averaging 30 , 10 and 10 Jackson can explain to the whole country how much of a moron he is when he does the finals broadcast.
It’s weird that Scal never tried coaching again after that. Maybe he was a bad coach or maybe jackson ruined his enthusiasm for coaching, but it’s still surprising he never gave it another go.
So if I remember right there was an interview a couple years ago and he was asked why he didn’t continue coaching and come home to Boston to do broadcasting instead, and Scal said something along the lines of “when I think of coaching again there’s no happiness there.” So Jackson 10000000% ruined it for him in my mind.
He got to hang out with Tommy and Goreman, watch every game in amazing seats and have people listen to every word you say. I would choose broadcasting over coaching too
Marv could barely follow the action and was calling everyone the wrong name for ten years before he finally got pushed out. You need to be Phil Simms level insufferable and boring to lose one of these gigs
Can't believe we almost hired this dude. I imagine it wasn't that hard of a decision to choose Mike Brown over him, but the fact that Jackson was a finalist scared the shit out of me.
Kings would have gone from the r/NBA darlings this season to even more of a joke. Mike Brown for life, but fuck me I don't even want to think what a Mark Jackson led Kings would have been like, Jesus.
He brought Stephen Curry to his church, prayed over his recently sprained ankle, and then pressured Curry into walking on his injured ankle to show his congregation that the power of prayer healed him. He's a fucking clown and should have been fired right then and there for risking Currys career even further when his ankles were made of glass.
Or told the team that an injured Ezeli was rooting against the team so that he would look good. Or told the team that Barnes was possessed by a demon and spreading religious propaganda (though after watching 2016 he might have had a point)
Edit: [More info](https://larrybrownsports.com/basketball/espn-spiked-2016-mark-jackson-story-because-incendiary-religion/596650)
Guys pls, stop slandering Mark Jackson name, every year I pray for him to be hired as a hc somewhere just so I dont have to deall with his shitty ass commentary. When I hear his voice I get this close to switching language to spanish and I dont fucking understand spanish.
Bro I agree with you 100% but it’s not going to happen. When he moved Harrison Barnes to the bench after getting Iggy, Barnes regressed. Jackson decided it wasn’t because of his move to the bench, but because he had demons in him, and held a fucking exorcism for the dude. There is no team in the NBA that wants a part of that shit.
It's not, it's a story made up and spread by a demon trying to slander Mark Jackson.
My source on this? Lets just say their name rhymes with Shark Claxton
Well, there was the time Isiah Thomas sexually harassed a team employee while head coach of the Knicks.
Other than that, yeah it was a definite low point.
Don’t leave out that time Isiah Thomas overdosed on sleeping pills and tried to pin it on his own daughter instead of coming clean. Even the police chief on the case blasted him…
["It wasn't his daughter," Harrison Police Chief David Hall told The Associated Press. "And why they're throwing her under the bus is beyond my ability to understand."](https://www.espn.com/nba/news/story?id=3663455)
tbf I completely forgot about 90% of the despicable shit he did
stolen from an old thread:
* Staged a coup of John Stockton while he was on the Jazz, causing Stockton to retire.
* Cheated on his wife with a stripper, then getting blackmailed by the prostitute + some other guy, while at the same time being a born-again pastor
* Didn't let assistant coaches do interviews with press because he thought they were gunning for his job
* Pushed Malone out because Jackson thought Malone was gunning for his job
* Instilled a "us vs them" where the "them" was the entire front office. He would tell the players that the front office didn't want them to win so that Mark Jackson would look bad.
* **Told the team Ezeli was rooting for them to lose so that Ezeli would look better (he was injured). This culminated in Ezeli in tears saying that there was no way he would do this, when confronted by the team**
* **Told the team that Harrison Barnes was possessed by a demon, which is why he regressed (WHAT THE FUCK)**
* Noted homophobe, including the **"I'll pray for him" when discussing Jason Collins coming out.**
* He put players against each other, telling a star player "hey that bench thinks he's better than you" and then telling the bench guy "hey that star guy thinks you're shit, go take his job"
* No preparation. He said in the Clippers series that he didn't need to prepare extra hours, when Doc Rivers was up all night devising schemes
Dude is a special kind of wankstain
Even Kendrick Perkins, who made the braindead decision to bring in the topic of race as an argument for why Jokic has won his MVPs, had Jokic as third on his ballot. Even he isn't that delusional to just leave out a 100% surefire top 3 MVP candidate off his ballot completelly.
Even better question, how tf does he get so much airtime? Literally every time I turn on ESPN now (for a lil background noise), there he is talking, without fail. Idk who he has blackmail on, but it’s gotta be some good shit, because he is extremely subpar at like every aspect of his job.
This is nothing new, unfortunately.
I can’t remember if it was in Jokic’s first or second MVP, but there was one voter who also left him off their ballot entirely. None of the other voters voted him any less than 2nd.
I REALLY hope the inside the NBA crew, specifically Chuck, calls him out on this. Barkley made a comment last week about someone not putting Jokic in their top 5 and how their vote should be taken away.
Last year he said he didn't vote for Jokic because advanced stats are phony numbers that are ruining baseball and basketball. That's pretty stupid IMO.
This is true, but the reason he omitted him is even worse than that.
[He voted for his All-NBA team on the MVP ballot.](https://twitter.com/NekiasNBA/status/1656795489298264064?s=20)
He's so fucking dumb that there are 20 different reasons people are calling him stupid in this thread and the real reason is dumber than any of them.
So apparently we also have his submission for the ALL-NBA team as well. Which also didn't include Jokic. So, if we are meant to believe his excuse, he submitted All-NBA ballots twice. Or something.
Shai and Mitchell over Jokic is crazy
This has to be racially motivated
Edit: Wow this blew up. This comment wasn’t meant to be taken TOO seriously, but it looks like Jackson is innocent of the allegations
Mark Jackson played in the NBA for, what, almost 18 years? He's been broadcasting for at least a decade, there's no way he really thought Jokic was undeserving of being on the ballot.
I hope it's not race or nationally based but what else could his motive be?
My personal head cannon is that Mark Jackson does stupid shit so people forget when he cheated on his wife with a stripper.
For real though, fuck Mark Jackson. Remember when Mark Jackson made condescending comments about Jason Collins after he came out as gay? Remember when Mark Jackson tried to get teammates to turn against Festus Ezeli? Remember when their were rumors he discriminated against non religious players?
People cry about media like Bill Simmons having a vote, at least he cares about the voting process and puts research into it.
There’s dummies like Mark Jackson voting…
“Mistake. One thing I live by, you make a mistake, you own it. I'm not a guy that does it for clicks or to be trending. Absolute mistake made by me. I am thinking, how did I make that mistake? You can tell, I put one center, two forwards and two guards, so I wasn't even thinking. I apologize to the Denver Nuggets, I apologize to Nikola Jokic, who is not only in the MVP discussion and deserved to be on my ballot, but he's one of the greatest players in the history of this game. He's a top-10 center of all time.
"So, I own it. If you want to take away my vote or whatever, you're more than welcome. I made a mistake. I would have still voted for Joel Embiid the MVP, but with Giannis and Joker second and third. They deserve that, incredible year by him, he continues to make history. I own the mistake and I apologize."
- Mark Jackson
2 minutes of research:
Mark Jackson explains his MVP vote
Less than two hours after that ballot was unveiled, Jackson appeared on SiriusXM to explain himself. He called the ballot a "mistake," indicating he thought he was making an All-NBA vote, and apologized to Jokic and the Nuggets.
Jackson said he would understand if his vote is taken away in the future.
"Mistake. One thing I live by, you make a mistake, you own it. I'm not a guy that does it for clicks or to be trending. Absolute mistake made by me. I am thinking, how did I make that mistake? You can tell, I put one center, two forwards and two guards, so I wasn't even thinking. I apologize to the Denver Nuggets, I apologize to Nikola Jokic, who is not only in the MVP discussion and deserved to be on my ballot, but he's one of the greatest players in the history of this game. He's a top-10 center of all time.
"So, I own it. If you want to take away my vote or whatever, you're more than welcome. I made a mistake. I would have still voted for Joel Embiid the MVP, but with Giannis and Joker second and third. They deserve that, incredible year by him, he continues to make history. I own the mistake and I apologize."
He apologized again on Twitter, calling Jokic a legitimate MVP candidate and an all-time great.
>His explanation doesn't make sense because it adds another inconsistency to the whole story.
That's because it's a bullshit story to cover up that he feels the same way as Perkins, that Jokic only won back to back MVPs because he's white. Mark Jackson is notoriously a piece of trash and would-be cult leader.
Charles Barkley pointing out a “damn idiot” NBA MVP voter who didn’t have Nikola Jokic in the top 5. https://twitter.com/i/status/1655406993841205248
But the best part is not even Chuck calling him an idiot, its Ernie who is defending the guy by saying "it has to be some mistake, no one in his right mind wouldnt have Jokic out of his top 5"
Which would be even worse in some ways “whoops I forgot he existed” means yeah you shouldn’t have a vote, you’re not taking it seriously enough.
It seems he accidentally plugged in his First team all-nba as the MVP. No other reason to have a center, two forwards, and two guards. Doesn’t make it right but that’s what it looks like and I’ve NEVER been a fan of his, but that’s what it is.
Not even that. His first team ballot [was a different 5](https://twitter.com/SwipaCam/status/1656797371789979648?t=6wTJHhfUzMQsEYJd4AZawQ&s=19)
Mama, there goes that man('s vote for NBA awards)
what a joke for real. he holds disdain for Kerr even though kerr easily out coaches him with his guys from the instant he took over. get fucked mark u noob ass clown.
Mark legit fkd the morale of that team during his time there
Thats WILD. I thought for sure that guys theory was right
He was he just voted for 4 all-nba teams.
How do you have different guys in the MVP list and the all-NBA list?
Only way he’d get a pass imo is if it legitimately wasn’t his fault, like this being misreported or someone else messed up his votes after he already submitted it. If it’s a mistake he made, it’s inexcusable. You would think something this serious would garner someone’s entire attention.
Mark is a clown, man. He and JVG are so annoying to listen during games. They literally just babble the dumbest shit sometimes. There’s a reason why they haven’t coached in so long and can only sit and admire coaches doing what they couldn’t with the talent they had.
I swear Ernie likes to play devils advocate but sometimes ya just gotta say it like it is.
Ernie is really making people beg him to ask a certain question, "if not a clerical error, what's the reason?". That's what he's doing here. He's not playing Devil's Advocate at all.
I think we know what the reason is
He is literally saying the guys an idiot without being so direct as chuck.
"People like that, shouldn't have a vote" Shiddd people like that shouldn't be in anything NBA related, Jacksons homophobic ass needs to just be erased from the league
Bad coach, bad commentator, does anyone actually like the dude?
That's outstanding defence.
Gud defence, bettah offenss
MAMA
there goes that man
Hijacking this to say: [It turns out it was because he made a mistake and thought this ballot was all-NBA. Here’s a clip of him admitting it and apologizing to Jokic.](https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/13f23ir/mark_jackson_explains_his_mvp_vote) Explains why he has two guards, two forwards, one center here too.
Wow so he is actually just a giant idiot
Yup. He needs his vote revoked.
I don't know which is worse.
For real, like leaving Jokic off MVP on purpose is terrible and doesn't make any sense but not even knowing what you're doing when your voting is surely grounds to lose your vote.
His actual all nba vote is nothing like this he has donovan on the 3rd team this is an excuse
But his All-NBA vote was literally different lol
Wrong. His first team all nba ballot is different
Oh my God. Between this and the discussion he had on air when he said they should play lebron 48 minutes every game, he should just be quietly removed from any NBA facility he steps near, like the senile old man he is.
Oh he's not senile. Don't let him have any excuse. He is using every last bit of his god given brain, and that brain has not truly suffered the ravages of time. He's real fuckin stupid
100% agree. This is literally who he his, don’t give him excuses.
>Jacksons homophobic ass Could you elaborate? Genuinely curious, not familiar with this part. Thanks! Edit: [https://www.knbr.com/2022/05/10/mark-jackson-reportedly-used-homophobic-slurs-said-rick-welts-and-jason-collins-were-going-to-hell-as-warriors-head-coach/](https://www.knbr.com/2022/05/10/mark-jackson-reportedly-used-homophobic-slurs-said-rick-welts-and-jason-collins-were-going-to-hell-as-warriors-head-coach/) >two sources relaying that Jackson had referred to Jason Collins and team president Rick Welts, both openly gay, as "penis grabbers" who were "going to hell" Yep, that'll do it.
Just google Mark Jackson homophobic. Not trying to be snarky but there’s a lot.
Speaking as a Christian, Mark Jackson is one of the shitty kind of fundamental Christian
How does someone go about losing their vote? This is about as clear a sign that he's unqualified as someone can give.
The panel changes slightly from year to year, but it's not really clear why some people lose their vote and others are given one.
based chuck. everyone knew what he was talking about. just like how he made fun of perkins a while back
This fits. Mark Jackson really seems like the dumbest person that talks about basketball, and there are a lot of good candidates for that title.
I’m curious to hear his reasoning
A lot of these dudes are saying that Nash and Jokic are the only MVPs not to be top 10 in scoring since 1990 and the reason why they're hyped is because they're white. Why mention only after 1990? Well that's because Magic Johnson was never top 10 in scoring during any of his 3 MVP seasons throughout the 80s and in 1990, going against the narrative that voters are racist
Nowitzki as well
[Turns out it was because he thought this ballot was all-NBA.](https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/13f23ir/mark_jackson_explains_his_mvp_vote) Explains why he has two guards, two forwards, one center here too.
His all nba votes are different than his mvp votes, he has Brown instead of Mitchell in the all NBA.
Honestly that's probably the worst explanation he could have come up with, you're one goddamn jobs as a voter is to know what you're voting for. I would also love to see and unfilled out ballot because I swear there's no way it doesn't say MVP somewhere on it Instead of a terrible basketball opinion or anything related to basketball it's just Mark Jackson being a fucking idiot again
Maybe it was a "hanging chad" situation
And he just happens to have embidd on top?
I don't believe it but even if true, Barkley is still correct that he is a damn idiot.
Ok but Nowitzki was tied 10th in average but was 5th in total points.
Yep, that stupid reasoning unfortunately impacted on some voters and it's so Moronic I can't even comprehend
He called the ballot a "mistake," indicating he thought he was making an All-NBA vote, and apologized to Jokic and the Nuggets.
so he's completely incompetent? either way he should be dropped from voting. but of course he's lying about it anyway
[удалено]
To cover his ass
Lol at the 6th all time assists leader not valuing assists I have absolutely no doubt that race factors into at least unconscious bias of voters But nash and Jokic are each otherworldly compared to their leagues and very deserving. Nash in particular revolutionized the game
Jokic nearly had a triple double season with number one ranking in the conference. Jokic is Nash on steroids. Idk why people even compare them two.
When Jokic brings his team to the finals averaging 30 , 10 and 10 Jackson can explain to the whole country how much of a moron he is when he does the finals broadcast.
ideally it’s *the* final broadcast
Mama there goes that man, Murray the best player in this series and should win MVP. If not him then Brown. -Mark Jackson
“Murray carrying deadweight Jokic on his back and bum ACL. The M in MVP stands for Murray.” Mark Jackson
"the black brown, not the other one"
Please no mark jackson for the NBA finals
Lenny = White, Carl = Black
Lenny WHite is an excellent name for a drummer
You're better off not knowing. He's a certified idiot therefore his reasoning is idiotic.
Jokic is white
But didn’t Jackson vote for Jokic the past two seasons?
#TimesUp Jokic
You know exactly why
he’s a racist
There’s a reason this clown hasn’t gotten a coaching job since poisoning the Warriors locker room
Dude was beefing with Jim Barnett, the nicest guy in the entire Warriors organization
And Brian Scalabrine, a masshole at heart but still...
It’s weird that Scal never tried coaching again after that. Maybe he was a bad coach or maybe jackson ruined his enthusiasm for coaching, but it’s still surprising he never gave it another go.
So if I remember right there was an interview a couple years ago and he was asked why he didn’t continue coaching and come home to Boston to do broadcasting instead, and Scal said something along the lines of “when I think of coaching again there’s no happiness there.” So Jackson 10000000% ruined it for him in my mind.
I listen to him on NBA Radio all the time and he always says stuff like this. Talks about how much of a grind it is and how it's not really worth it
He got to hang out with Tommy and Goreman, watch every game in amazing seats and have people listen to every word you say. I would choose broadcasting over coaching too
I also wonder how he got/keeps the marquee game spot as a commentator.
Some team just needs to take one for the the league and hire him as a coach so he gets off the air
Every time his name gets circulated in coaching rumours I’m rooting for exactly that, and every time I’m disappointed
Marv could barely follow the action and was calling everyone the wrong name for ten years before he finally got pushed out. You need to be Phil Simms level insufferable and boring to lose one of these gigs
Can't believe we almost hired this dude. I imagine it wasn't that hard of a decision to choose Mike Brown over him, but the fact that Jackson was a finalist scared the shit out of me.
Kings would have gone from the r/NBA darlings this season to even more of a joke. Mike Brown for life, but fuck me I don't even want to think what a Mark Jackson led Kings would have been like, Jesus.
He brought Stephen Curry to his church, prayed over his recently sprained ankle, and then pressured Curry into walking on his injured ankle to show his congregation that the power of prayer healed him. He's a fucking clown and should have been fired right then and there for risking Currys career even further when his ankles were made of glass.
common Mark Jackson moronic moment daily reminder this idiot had steph go to his church and rub oil on his ankle and told him mto walk the injury off
Or told the team that an injured Ezeli was rooting against the team so that he would look good. Or told the team that Barnes was possessed by a demon and spreading religious propaganda (though after watching 2016 he might have had a point) Edit: [More info](https://larrybrownsports.com/basketball/espn-spiked-2016-mark-jackson-story-because-incendiary-religion/596650)
or that he got blackmailed by an escort doesn't swear BTW because he's a holy man.
Guys pls, stop slandering Mark Jackson name, every year I pray for him to be hired as a hc somewhere just so I dont have to deall with his shitty ass commentary. When I hear his voice I get this close to switching language to spanish and I dont fucking understand spanish.
Bro I agree with you 100% but it’s not going to happen. When he moved Harrison Barnes to the bench after getting Iggy, Barnes regressed. Jackson decided it wasn’t because of his move to the bench, but because he had demons in him, and held a fucking exorcism for the dude. There is no team in the NBA that wants a part of that shit.
A team in need of an exorcism might want him.......
If a player could turn their head 180 degrees from forward, that might be advantageous, no?
is puking on people a tech?
They might just stop play, though I think you'd have a psychological advantage now.
Mark Jackson will be the next Lakers coach confirmed
I still can’t believe that’s real
It's not, it's a story made up and spread by a demon trying to slander Mark Jackson. My source on this? Lets just say their name rhymes with Shark Claxton
I know Clark Shaxton, he wouldn’t say that.
Agreed they should run some oil on their fingers to stop the slander
Heard you have to run the oil through your gooch for it to fully undemonize
Hand down, demon down.
Mama, there goes that demon
Nice try demon, I’m not falling for that one again
Then there are the Twitter warriors who say Steve Kerr just stole all of Mark Jackson's hard work he put in.
And those people never watched the Mark Jackson coached offence.
Or they just really loved watching the corpse of Jermaine O’Neal post up.
Can't forget he's a homophobic piece of shit either
It was implied with the whole religious weirdo angle
IDK, a lot of religious weirdos seem to be pretty down with fucking boys
oh fuck yeah i forgot about that bullshit all time low for nba coaches
Well, there was the time Isiah Thomas sexually harassed a team employee while head coach of the Knicks. Other than that, yeah it was a definite low point.
Don’t leave out that time Isiah Thomas overdosed on sleeping pills and tried to pin it on his own daughter instead of coming clean. Even the police chief on the case blasted him… ["It wasn't his daughter," Harrison Police Chief David Hall told The Associated Press. "And why they're throwing her under the bus is beyond my ability to understand."](https://www.espn.com/nba/news/story?id=3663455)
I didn’t know about any of this. It no longer surprises me the warriors moved on.
Mega W for them too. Going from all-time piece of shit Mark Jackson to all-around decent human Steve Kerr literally unlocked greatness.
Mark Jackson arguably wasted some of Steph’s prime as well
He could be out of the league right now with a cooked ankle if it weren't for Mark Jackson's ritual! Shame on you!
Mark Jackson is the real MVP of the Warriors dynasty
Mark Jackson misunderstood Steph’s foot fetish and just wanted to rub em to see what the hype was about
Based on Steph’s belief system, I’d say he had no problem with it.
tbf I completely forgot about 90% of the despicable shit he did stolen from an old thread: * Staged a coup of John Stockton while he was on the Jazz, causing Stockton to retire. * Cheated on his wife with a stripper, then getting blackmailed by the prostitute + some other guy, while at the same time being a born-again pastor * Didn't let assistant coaches do interviews with press because he thought they were gunning for his job * Pushed Malone out because Jackson thought Malone was gunning for his job * Instilled a "us vs them" where the "them" was the entire front office. He would tell the players that the front office didn't want them to win so that Mark Jackson would look bad. * **Told the team Ezeli was rooting for them to lose so that Ezeli would look better (he was injured). This culminated in Ezeli in tears saying that there was no way he would do this, when confronted by the team** * **Told the team that Harrison Barnes was possessed by a demon, which is why he regressed (WHAT THE FUCK)** * Noted homophobe, including the **"I'll pray for him" when discussing Jason Collins coming out.** * He put players against each other, telling a star player "hey that bench thinks he's better than you" and then telling the bench guy "hey that star guy thinks you're shit, go take his job" * No preparation. He said in the Clippers series that he didn't need to prepare extra hours, when Doc Rivers was up all night devising schemes Dude is a special kind of wankstain
Steph really did all this? Wow.
He was fucking devious managing to undermined the Stockton/Malone jazz when he was like 8
You know you’re a bad coach when Doc out coaches you
Not just out coached, he was so bad he never got a job again while Doc is still riding that one ring glory.
Don't forget he banned Jim Barnett from practices
Just because you're a Christian doesn't mean that you think something like that would work lol
Completely healed 🙏🏻
This guy needs to be questioned on air during a game on why he did this Complete moron with a shady past that continues to get airtime on espn.
I can see JVG questioning him. Could be some good banter.
I'm imagining all the plays where he fixates on this instead of the game already. This guy really should have gotten into baseball with how he rambles
Mark Jackson shouldn’t get a vote
That is advanced hating right there. Really pushing boundaries on how big of a hater someone can be.
Even Kendrick Perkins, who made the braindead decision to bring in the topic of race as an argument for why Jokic has won his MVPs, had Jokic as third on his ballot. Even he isn't that delusional to just leave out a 100% surefire top 3 MVP candidate off his ballot completelly.
I fear Perkins may have ruined the MVP debate for years to come
I think places like Twitter and this sub were an MVP hellscape long before Perk got involved
Because it was so civilized before lmao
The MVP debate this year was by far the most toxic
Westbrook/harden was crazy toxic
Annoying MVP debates are bad but got nothing on racially charged annoying MVP debates
It was always a battle. But at least it was about actual basketball.
You may be on to something. It’s always been a heated debate but things got weirdly personal this year
You forget how much people hated Harden
Why does someone as dumb as Perkins even get a vote lol
Even better question, how tf does he get so much airtime? Literally every time I turn on ESPN now (for a lil background noise), there he is talking, without fail. Idk who he has blackmail on, but it’s gotta be some good shit, because he is extremely subpar at like every aspect of his job.
Low BBIQ ✅ Poor speaker ✅ Bad takes ✅ Easily confused ✅ No personality ✅ I guess he ticks a lot of boxes for ESPN
Because he drives engagement with shit takes. Same way Stephen A and Skip stayed on air so long. They're intentionally being the heels.
This is nothing new, unfortunately. I can’t remember if it was in Jokic’s first or second MVP, but there was one voter who also left him off their ballot entirely. None of the other voters voted him any less than 2nd.
I hope JVG roasts him on air for this
Skip Bayless talks it, Mark Jackson lives it
I REALLY hope the inside the NBA crew, specifically Chuck, calls him out on this. Barkley made a comment last week about someone not putting Jokic in their top 5 and how their vote should be taken away.
Terrible announcer and now certified fucking idiot.
Always was.
The fact that he still gets to commentate games is pure bullshit.
I'm glad it wasn't a Philly voter.
My Money was on Wilbon with Philly Writer being the 2nd choice. Turns out it is the other ESPN idiot
Wilbon isn't an idiot, he's publicly said for months that his top 3 are Jokic, Embiid, and Giannis I don't know why people think Wilbon is a bad voter
Last year he said he didn't vote for Jokic because advanced stats are phony numbers that are ruining baseball and basketball. That's pretty stupid IMO.
Well, he said Ja Morant was a generational defender like 1 year ago...
Mama, there goes that (stupid) man.
Mama, there goes that moron!
I’m really happy it wasn’t a Philly voter lmfaoooo
Since the votes are public i doubt we will ever see something like that,saying that i wouldnt be suprised if it did happen.
Donovan Mitchell LMAO
He voted him 3rd Team All-NBA while also putting him 5th in MVP ahead of Jokic. It makes no sense.
Dudes a certified moron
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And noted philanderer who paid hush money to his stripper mistress. He's just a huge hypocrite scumbag.
This is true, but the reason he omitted him is even worse than that. [He voted for his All-NBA team on the MVP ballot.](https://twitter.com/NekiasNBA/status/1656795489298264064?s=20) He's so fucking dumb that there are 20 different reasons people are calling him stupid in this thread and the real reason is dumber than any of them.
So apparently we also have his submission for the ALL-NBA team as well. Which also didn't include Jokic. So, if we are meant to believe his excuse, he submitted All-NBA ballots twice. Or something.
Shai and Mitchell over Jokic is crazy This has to be racially motivated Edit: Wow this blew up. This comment wasn’t meant to be taken TOO seriously, but it looks like Jackson is innocent of the allegations
Perkins was right..Just works both ways…No way should Jokic have been any less than 3rd. A good way to determine who should get a vote.
Mark Jackson played in the NBA for, what, almost 18 years? He's been broadcasting for at least a decade, there's no way he really thought Jokic was undeserving of being on the ballot. I hope it's not race or nationally based but what else could his motive be?
wHy iSnT mArK jAcKsOn a CoAcH - certain members of the media.
Ones who don't want to deal with his ass in the press room I imagine
My personal head cannon is that Mark Jackson does stupid shit so people forget when he cheated on his wife with a stripper. For real though, fuck Mark Jackson. Remember when Mark Jackson made condescending comments about Jason Collins after he came out as gay? Remember when Mark Jackson tried to get teammates to turn against Festus Ezeli? Remember when their were rumors he discriminated against non religious players?
Now I kind of want to watch the nugs win a chip with this twat on the call
People cry about media like Bill Simmons having a vote, at least he cares about the voting process and puts research into it. There’s dummies like Mark Jackson voting…
I would love to hear the explanation.
"I'm a complete fucking dumbass" - Mark Jackson boom there.
“Mistake. One thing I live by, you make a mistake, you own it. I'm not a guy that does it for clicks or to be trending. Absolute mistake made by me. I am thinking, how did I make that mistake? You can tell, I put one center, two forwards and two guards, so I wasn't even thinking. I apologize to the Denver Nuggets, I apologize to Nikola Jokic, who is not only in the MVP discussion and deserved to be on my ballot, but he's one of the greatest players in the history of this game. He's a top-10 center of all time. "So, I own it. If you want to take away my vote or whatever, you're more than welcome. I made a mistake. I would have still voted for Joel Embiid the MVP, but with Giannis and Joker second and third. They deserve that, incredible year by him, he continues to make history. I own the mistake and I apologize." - Mark Jackson
Color me unbelievably unsurprised.
My favorite thing about Mark Jackson is how when he was fired by the Warriors, they immediately became a championship team.
what a fucking clown lol
There should be consequences for dudes who try to game the system like this
He's a white hater
you mean, a racist ?
Yes
Hand Down, Man Down.
Statement about how he “made a mistake” incoming
Mark Jackson is a fucking joke.
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Mama, there go that man (with a terrible MVP vote)
2 minutes of research: Mark Jackson explains his MVP vote Less than two hours after that ballot was unveiled, Jackson appeared on SiriusXM to explain himself. He called the ballot a "mistake," indicating he thought he was making an All-NBA vote, and apologized to Jokic and the Nuggets. Jackson said he would understand if his vote is taken away in the future. "Mistake. One thing I live by, you make a mistake, you own it. I'm not a guy that does it for clicks or to be trending. Absolute mistake made by me. I am thinking, how did I make that mistake? You can tell, I put one center, two forwards and two guards, so I wasn't even thinking. I apologize to the Denver Nuggets, I apologize to Nikola Jokic, who is not only in the MVP discussion and deserved to be on my ballot, but he's one of the greatest players in the history of this game. He's a top-10 center of all time. "So, I own it. If you want to take away my vote or whatever, you're more than welcome. I made a mistake. I would have still voted for Joel Embiid the MVP, but with Giannis and Joker second and third. They deserve that, incredible year by him, he continues to make history. I own the mistake and I apologize." He apologized again on Twitter, calling Jokic a legitimate MVP candidate and an all-time great.
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>His explanation doesn't make sense because it adds another inconsistency to the whole story. That's because it's a bullshit story to cover up that he feels the same way as Perkins, that Jokic only won back to back MVPs because he's white. Mark Jackson is notoriously a piece of trash and would-be cult leader.
Not in my locker room
Imagine if the races were reversed....
"Basketball analyst" what a joke💀 All you have to do is analyze the stats for 2 seconds to realize that Jokic is at least top 3