Judging by the faction of the public utterly outraged by his firing from the Golden State Warriors, per USA Today's Sam Amick (h/t Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports), Mark Jackson has more than a few very vocal—if not particularly evenhanded—defenders.
He also now has plenty of options in his next job search.
Jackson's talents are many, and whatever you think about his politics, beliefs and skills as a tactician, you can safely assume he'll enter the unemployment market fully prepared. Getting canned wasn't a shock for him, and his comments over the past year indicate he saw this coming.
"But in three years, in the 23-win season, I didn’t throw anybody under the bus. And you can wait and wait and wait, and it won’t happen here until somebody else is sitting here." he said in a postgame press conference in February, per BayAreaSportsGuy.com.
Soon, somebody else will be sitting there.
In that same address, a response to the media unfairly (in Jackson's estimation) twisting his words about Andrew Bogut's injury, he also said, "I'll go down being me."
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What’s Next for Mark Jackson After Being Fired by Golden State Warriors?
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