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Guard · 2002–03

Mark Jackson

A streetball-hardened point guard from St. Albans, Queens, Jackson won 1988 Rookie of the Year with the Knicks — the lowest draft pick to take the award in thirty years — after averaging 13.6 points and 10.6 assists. His 17-year career touched seven franchises, and the 2002–03 season in Utah came near the end, two years before he retired in 2004.

The second act kept him on camera: ESPN and ABC broadcasts alongside Jeff Van Gundy and Mike Breen, then three seasons as Golden State's head coach, leading the Warriors to consecutive playoff berths for the first time in over two decades before his 2014 firing and a return to the booth.

HOW HE CAME & WENTDenver waived him and Utah signed him on October 2, 2002 to back up John Stockton, at 37. He played all 82 games without starting one. Stockton retired that May, the Jazz went young, and Jackson sat unsigned until Houston took him in January 2004.

Full name: Mark A. Jackson
Utah Jazz tenure: 2002–03
Position: Guard
Born: 1965, Brooklyn, New York
Height: 6′1″ (185 cm)
Weight: 181 lb (82 kg)
College: St. John's
Drafted: 1987, 1st round (No. 18), New York

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2003-04 UD Black Diamond Jersey #BD-JA
2003-04 Upper Deck Black Diamond Diamond Jersey Single #BD-JA

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With the Jazz

MARK JACKSON · 2002–03 · PER GAME

SEASON	TEAM	G	MPG	PPG	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	FG%	3P%	FT%
2002–03	UTA	82	17.9	4.7	2.1	4.6	0.6	0.0	.398	.284	.763
JAZZ TOTAL	1 SEASON	82	17.9	4.7	2.1	4.6	0.6	0.0	.398	.284	.762

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MARK JACKSON · 9 NOTES

Retired third on the NBA's all-time assists list, behind Jazz legend John Stockton.
Became an ordained minister during his playing career and has led a California congregation for years.
Kept an unusual free-throw ritual his entire career, framing the rim with his thumb and index finger before every attempt.
Stuck his tongue out at Michael Jordan mid-layup in the 1989 playoffs, and Jordan answered by averaging over 40 the rest of the series.
His habit of backing smaller guards down in the post for 15 seconds prompted the NBA's five-second rule, still nicknamed the Mark Jackson Rule.
He played all 82 games for Utah in 2002-03 without starting one, saying he signed for the club's class and its two Hall of Famers.
As a broadcaster his signature call — Mama, there goes that man — became one of the most quoted lines in basketball television.
He is credited with perfecting and popularizing the teardrop, the little floater every small guard now learns.
Of partial Dominican descent, he was set to join the Dominican national team until FIBA blocked the roster addition.