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  1. don grahamleone

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    http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/...hen-jackson-says-somes-smoked-mar1juana-games

    Former NBA player Stephen Jackson said he occasionally smoked mar1juana before playing in games.

    Jackson's admission came on the "I Am Rapaport" podcast hosted by actor Michael Rapaport.

    "I just gotta be real, you know, it's been a couple games where I smoked before games and had great games," Jackson said in the podcast, which was posted Friday. "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.'"

    Both Jackson and Rapaport are contributors to ESPN's NBA coverage.

    Jackson also said on the podcast that Don Nelson, his coach while with theGolden State Warriors, knew that the forward smoked mar1juana.

    "We're in Utah and the [league's] 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 [teammate] Baron [Davis] 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 high-fives, like, 'Yeah, we can smoke now!'" Jackson recalled. "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."

    Jackson, 38, played for the Warriors for four seasons; he averaged 15.1 points, 3.9 rebounds and 3.1 assists per game over his 14-year career.

    Jackson's most memorable season was the 2006-07 campaign, during which he was traded by Indiana to Golden State and helped the Warriors upset the top-seeded Dallas Mavericks in the first round of the playoffs.
     
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    Ah... remember the good old days when you didn't hate the warriors? I wonder why..
     
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    Prob not a good time to talk about it since Davis is trying to come back?
     
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    that's pretty out there man.......................................................................
     
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    Haha. Honestly 90% of the NBA smokes or does even a little more.
     
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    I smoke weed before a game too.

    And now that it's legal, ain't nothing the man can do no nuthin about it no more
     
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    Good for him.

    Mary J should be legal in this country anyway, it's far less harmful on your body than alcohol and has real medicinal benefits.
     
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    i try to stay away from weed or any other drugs because the officer from D.A.R.E. in middle school said they can ruin my life.
     
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    Weed? John Lucas is not impressed.
     
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    Pothead NBA champion
     
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    Yeah, I remember when I was in 7th grade and the D.A.R.E officer gave us that same speech. You know what I did though? I got caught smoking outside the school cafeteria not even a month later. Went to detention for a week, had to write a bunch of **** about Shakespeare and some other poets and do it in cursive text, several pages of nonsense that I couldn't have given two ***** about and still don't to this day. It was pretty easy though, kind of funny too. Especially because all of my teachers loved me and thought I was one of the smartest kids at that school, always eager to absorb material and discuss subject matter, always made good grades, great reading comprehension.

    But, my smoking habbit never effected my ability to learn or become a productive member of society. I'm 35 now, still smoke the ganja and still productive and happy. I wouldn't consider myself one of humanities finer examples, mind you. Definitely, not a role model of any sort. But, I do consider myself to be a successful person at my occupation and I'm a great lover of family, friends, life, the common man/woman/gay/tranny/dwarf/jew, etc.

    Anyhoo, sorry for going off on this tangent like this. Pretty baked right now.
     
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    ANYONE who saw interviews with those players during that time KNEW they were high. Baron Davis and Jason Richardson beat the Mavs in the playoffs one year and showed up SO high on Inside the NBA, it was nuts. SO HIGH.

    What I didn't know was how wild Don Nelson was, lulz.
     
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    We been knowing lol. Friend mentioned he and some other players would light them up occasionally during the offseason
     
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    Hell, MLB just put a guy in the HOF who admittedly would slide head-first into bases so he wouldn't break the cocaine vial in his back pocket.
     
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    That explains a lot.
     
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    TIL Shakespeare smoked pot.
     
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    Any videos of this? lol
     
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    I smoke 2 joints before I smoke 2 joints and then I smoke 2 more..
     
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