It's understandable if Mark Jackson holds a grudge against the Warriors, but saying anything that can be construed as negative about Stephen Curry seems excessive.
The former Warriors coach had the audacity to say that the reigning Warriors MVP is "hurting the game," according to USA Today Sports' For the Win.
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That would be blasphemous if it weren't true.
Jackson coached Curry and the Warriors through the 2013-14 season before he was fired. Steve Kerr took over in 2014-15 and led the team that Jackson helped assemble to the NBA title.
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However, Jackson, an analyst for ESPN who was courtside for the Warriors' Christmas Day game against the Cavaliers, is not bitter. He was referring to Curry's idol status in which kids growing up on the game are trying to emulate his game when they shouldn't be.
"Steph Curry's great. Steph Curry's the MVP," Jackson said on the ESPN telecast, per For the Win. "He's a champion. Understand what I'm saying when I say this.
"He's hurting the game. And what I mean by that is that I go into these high school gyms, I watch these kids, and the first thing they do is they run to the 3-point line. You are not Steph Curry. Work on the other aspects of the game. People think that he's just a knockdown shooter."
Curry was the seventh overall pick in the 2009 NBA Drat after coming out of Davidson College. Neither of those facts show that Curry was considered an elite player.
The seven-year veteran has worked on his game every year to get to the point where he has led Golden State to the 2015 NBA title and a 28-1 record to start 2016.
Kids just see the final product and are trying to emulate that, rather than study all the work that Curry has put in to make himself the player he has become.
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