In Warriors news today, Golden State Warriors head coach Mark Jackson says that the sting of racist comments, attributed to Los Angeles Clippers' owner Donald Sterling by TMZ Sports, wasn't just limited to the Clippers themselves.
Per Marc J. Spears of Yahoo! Sports, Jackson spoke on the effect that Sterling's alleged comments had on himself and on his team going into Game 4 with the Clippers on Sunday:
Mark Jackson: "please don't think it's just the clippers that are affected by these comments. It's affected us all."
— Marc J. Spears (@SpearsNBAYahoo) April 27, 2014
Jackson also reiterated the fact that the racism attributed to Sterling isn't an isolated incident of such thought processes:
Mark Jackson: "There are extremely successful people that feel the same way. That's a fact."
— Marc J. Spears (@SpearsNBAYahoo) April 27, 2014
Mark Jackson was also asked if he could hypothetically take the Los Angeles Clippers' coaching job right now, with everything on the table as it is with Donald Sterling:
Mark Jackson on whether he would take clippers coach job if he was a free agent: "I cannot right now. Knowing the mentality, I cannot."
— Marc J. Spears (@SpearsNBAYahoo) April 27, 2014