If you got to see Stephen Jackson play in the NBA at all, you probably had an inkling that he was a strange guy. That fact appears to have been confirmed.
Jackson, who hasn’t played since 2015, recently went on the “I am Rapaport” podcast. While on there, he discussed a number of crazy things, including smoking weed with former Golden State Warriors coach Don Nelson.
Let’s just get straight to what Jackson said because this is hilarious:
“Nobody knows this story, so this is the first time somebody is hearing this. We’re in Utah and the 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 Baron 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 hi-fives like, “yeah, we can smoke now!” 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.”
Don Nelson is officially my hero.
Obviously, we know Jackson went on a few dates with Mary Jane. But he made this even more clear with these comments:
“I can’t speak for nobody else. Me personally, I’ve done a lot of shit before games sometimes and still was able to go out there and be productive. I just gotta be real, you know, it’s been a couple games where I smoked before games and had great games. 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.’”
Somebody needs to get Jackson on an NBA studio show pronto. This guy has some stories to tell.
[Uproxx]