SALT LAKE CITY – It may not have gone exactly as he’d hoped as far as his personal numbers were concerned, but Frank Jackson was still thrilled to be back home playing basketball Monday night against the Utah Jazz and leaving with a victory.
Jackson, who starred at Lone Peak High School, where he was a three-time first-team all-state player and the 2016 Deseret News Mr. Basketball, is playing his first season with the New Orleans Pelicans after playing one season at Duke University and sitting out the year in between with a foot injury.
In the Pelicans' 115-112 come-from-behind victory, Jackson finished with just four points, three rebounds and two steals after scoring 16 points in an upset win at Denver Saturday and 15 in a loss at Los Angeles last week.