Adam Stanco & Noah Coslov go ISO with former New York Knicks head coach, legendary NBA executive, and current Big East associate commissioner, Stu Jackson. They discuss his remarkable career, going from an assistant on Rick Pitino's Final Four staff at Providence to the second-youngest head coach in NBA history to resurrecting Wisconsin's program to the first general manager for the Vancouver Grizzlies to the NBA's Sr. VP of basketball operations. Jackson goes in-depth about why the Grizzlies didn't take Kobe Bryant or Steve Nash in the 1996 NBA Draft, what he would've done differently after Steve Francis didn't want to go to Vancouver in 1999, and why the decision-making behind the controversial suspensions in the 2007 Spurs-Suns series wasn't difficult. He reveals incredible stories about shocking the Celtics in the 1990 playoffs, the Trent Tucker rule, recruiting Rashard Griffith to Wisconsin, the toughest call he had to make after a suspension, and how a meeting with Pitino in a sauna changed the college game. Plus, he gives us rare insight into Patrick Ewing, David Stern, and Jeff and Stan Van Gundy.
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Rejecting the Screen is part of the Locked On Podcast Network and is released on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Thursday brings "Going ISO" where the guys conduct a longform interview. Past guests have included Vin Baker, Shawn Marion, Gerald Henderson, Lindsey Hunter, Marc Jackson, Dan Dickau, Adam Morrison, Eddie Johnson, Rex Walters, Alaa Abdelnaby, Brendan Haywood, Anthony Morrow, Don MacLean, Peter Vecsey, Kevin Willis, Ryan Hollins, Howard Beck, Kenny Anderson, Richard Jefferson, Doug Gottlieb, Robert Sacre, John Hollinger, Butch Beard, Sam Mitchell, PJ Carlesimo, Ryen Russillo and others.
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