Episode 29: Mark Jackson. Rich catches up with his childhood hero Mark Jackson. They talk his 17-year career, his leadership qualities and talk openly on him not getting another shot at coaching in the NBA after the Warriors.

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Business, Entrepreneurship, Sports

4.4 • 620 Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Mark Jackson is one of television’s best NBA analysts, calling multiple finals for ESPN and ABC, alongside his good friend and former coach, Jeff Van Gundy. A native of New York City, Jackson was a star at St Johns before being selected in the 1st round by the New York Knicks. A 1988 NBA rookie of the year and an All-Star, the elite point guard led several NBA title contenders during a 17-year NBA career. He’s the NBA’s 4th all-time assists leader, ranked right behind Steve Nash, and right ahead of Magic Johnson. Jackson talks to Rich and Gianni about his pride in building a winning foundation as coach of the Golden State Warriors from ’11-’14; his feelings about getting fired by the Warriors before the team went on to win multiple championships; whether he believes there remains an unflattering narrative that’s kept him from getting hired again; and how his father’s example inspired his leadership qualities, resilience and deep faith.

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0:00.0	What's up everybody and welcome to another boardroom out of office podcast.
0:10.1	My name is Rich Climman and I'm here as always with Gianni.
0:13.9	What's up, brother?
0:14.8	What's up, my gee?
0:15.9	So we've had, this is our 29th show, G, and we've had 28 of some of the more successful minds in sports
0:23.8	and business and technology. Some of them have been my friends. But no guest is as special to me
0:31.6	and that parts of my life didn't even know it than Mark Jackson. Talk to me. Yeah. And before we even bring Mark
0:39.8	up, man, anyone who knows Rich should definitely know how big of a Mark Jackson fan you are. And so
0:45.6	in your own words, like beyond basketball, like, why is this person so important to you?
0:50.5	All right. Well, I'm going to explain that to you in a second, but let's bring him up. So without
0:53.9	further ado, welcome a future hall of famer mr mark jackson thanks for having me man man
1:01.6	thank you bro you know so you already know Gianni the thing is is like like i said in my intro
1:08.0	half my life he didn't know but the last like 10 years or whatever,
1:13.0	maybe a little less, all I've done is remind him
1:15.1	every time I talk to him about what a big fan I was.
1:19.0	But I'll explain to you in short and then Mark in here too,
1:23.8	but I grew up in New York City, right?
1:26.0	So I watched this man play somehow, some way I watched him play
1:31.5	when he was in high school at Bishop Lachlan. He was, I know more about his life than he may know,
1:36.4	right? He was born in Brooklyn, then he moved to Queens. He went to Bishop Lachlan. He was born
1:41.8	April 1st, April Fool's Day. See, this is the crazy shit I was on as a kid.
1:46.8	And after he went to Bishop Lockland, he went to St. John's, which is in New York City as well.
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