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Just a few months after being jettisoned by the Indiana Pacers and joining the Golden State Warriors in 2007, Stephen Jackson helped his new team upset the 67-win Dallas Mavericks in the opening round of the N.B.A. playoffs. By the beginning of the following season, Jackson had picked up a new nickname to paste over the old troublemaker label that led Indiana to trade him.
Don Nelson, the Warriors’ coach at the time, christened him Captain Jack.
“He was our leader,” Baron Davis, the point guard widely recognized as the best player on that team, said this week of Jackson.