Phil Jackson Compares Steph Curry To LSU Great Chris Jackson

by Staff Reporter

February 29, 201612 Comments

Chuck Cook-USA TODAY Sports

Former NBA player and coach Phil Jackson, who is currently the New York Knicks president sent out at tweet on Sunday suggesting that Stephen Curry reminds him of former LSU great Chris Jackson who changed his named Mahmoud Abdul-Rouf.

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Jackson averaged 29.0 PPG, 3.0 RPG, and 3.6 APG at LSU. He left after his sophomore season and was drafted No. 3 overall by the Denver Nuggets in the 1990 NBA Draft. He played nine season in the NBA with the Nuggets, Sacramento Kings, and the Vancouver Grizzlies.

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High C•111 months

Phil Jackson can spell his name correctly, but an LSU message board can't? Abdul-Rouf? Really?

ShlikStyck•111 months

before all this came out I said the same thing. And I didn't mean to compare their scoring numbers...but watching Curry fake, split between his legs and rake down a 3 looks exactly like CJ's style was. There's no hesitation, make the move and shoot it. I actually came up with this one day watching the game and I was like "is that Chris Jackson?" damn he looks exactly the same out there. Had to do a double take...

genuineLSUtiger•111 months

Curry couldn't hold CJ's jock.

tiggerthetooth•111 months

3 point percentage of Curry embarrasses Jackson. Jackson may have been more athletic though.

nofear67•111 months

CJ was a better all around basketball player and athlete.

Powerman•111 months

lol no

LSU FSU Grad•111 months

He didn't mean it as compliment to CJ, but more as a slight to Curry. The implication was also there that CJ was hot once too and he faded, let's see what Curry does. But Phil misses on the mark as CJ was never close to the level Curry in the NBA. He was smooth, but didn't score like Curry.

tigerMike•111 months

If he didn't have Turret's he would have been even better than he was. But prob not Steph-like

Bige11•111 months

He might be a poor mans curry, which is not an insult, but he isn't curry. Take everything Phil says with a grain of salt. It's probably some brain teaser.

broadcaster•111 months

Poor man's version shite!Chris Jacksons had all the skills Curry has. His tics or Tourette's messed him up

DVinBR•111 months

#going

DVinBR•111 months

Except curry is probably go down as tGOAT

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