Stephen Jackson Admitted That He Used To Smoke Weed Before NBA Games
ESPN- Former NBA player Stephen Jackson says he occasionally smoked marijuana before playing in games. Jackson’s admission came on the I Am Rapaport: Stereo Podcast hosted by actor Michael Rapaport. “I just gotta be real, you know, it’s been a couple games where I smoked before games and had great games,” Jackson said on the podcast, which was posted Friday. “It’s been some games where I smoked before the game and was on the bench after three minutes sitting on the sideline, ‘Please calm down. This high has to calm down’ — I done shot three shots that went over the backboard, like, I’m going to be honest, like, ‘Ahh, I gotta calm down.'”
CAPTAIN JACK WILL GET YOU HIGH TONIGHT!!! I know some people will act all offended that a player would have the gaul to go on the court at anything less than 100% sober. But I firmly subscribe to the thought that you should do whatever works. If you play good while high, get high. Kinda like when people get better at beer pong after drinking a few beers. If you feel good, you will play good. Now should you rip 100 bong hits to the point where you forget how time works and you can’t lift your legs? No. But do whatever got you to the Association.
Plus I am all for Stephen Jackson taking a drug that may mellow him out a bit. I am willing to say that Stephen Jackson didn’t smoke before the game that later became the Malice At The Palace. Because if he did, I bet this guys brains wouldn’t have been beaten to mush that night.
And if that wasn’t enough, we got some more insight on Don Nelson’s thoughts on the matter of smoking weed in the NBA.
Jackson also said on the podcast that Don Nelson, his coach while with the Golden State Warriors, knew that the forward smoked marijuana.
“We’re in Utah, and the [league’s] drug test people are around, you know, to get our last drug test so we can smoke, right? Don Nelson, we talked about weed all the time. He was cool with talking about weed. We got our last test in Utah, right? So me and [teammate] Baron [Davis] are coming out the locker room just screaming, excited with our last pink slip saying we could smoke for the rest of the season, and Don Nelson hauls ass down there giving us high-fives, like, ‘Yeah, we can smoke now!'” Jackson recalled. “It was cool, the fact that he knows what’s going on off the court with his players, which was great, man. We enjoyed it. That’s why we were a great team.”
Typical Don Nelson luck. This story comes out while Nellie is still coaching, and he is known as even more of a players coach. If you are a free agent and down to two potential teams, you knowwww you are signing with the team that has the coach that runs to give his guys high fives after they find out they can smoke weed the rest of the season. That’s a guy you go the extra mile for.
