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The team said Jackson would be fined, but the punishment would ''be imposed in consultation and coordination between the Spurs and the NBA.'' It was unclear if Jackson faced additional punishment from San Antonio in the wake of the NBA fine. Yahoo! Sports

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Ibaka declined to discuss the matter of Stephen Jackson. He deflected all questions by saying he’s just focused on his future and trying to get better. Kendrick Perkins, who is good friends with Jackson, claimed he hadn’t heard about Jackson’s comments but said he would try to talk to Jackson when informed about the matter. Perk, however, made it a point to stay out of it by choosing to not add anything else to the conversation. Oklahoman

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That message has since been deleted, and Jackson posted an apology for his comments on Sunday. “I apologize to Serge Ibaka, the NBA, and to all my fans for the comments I made,” Jackson wrote. “It was unprofessional and childish. I’m not a thug just a man who speaks his mind. It was not appropriate. I do apologize. Only a man can admit when he’s wrong.” SI.com

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Darnell Mayberry: Serge Ibaka declined to discuss Stephen Jackson's recent comments on Twitter. Twitter @DarnellMayberry

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After World Peace and Ibaka got into a brief altercation with 2:56 left in the Lakers’ loss to the Thunder on Friday night, Jackson offered via his Twitter account (printed verbatim here): Somebody tell serg Abaka. He aint bout dis life. Next time he run up on me im goin in his mouth. That’s a promise. He doin 2 much. Orange County Register

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Stephen Jackson: If u not a fan of me why follow me. Oh I know u live to b a hater. Thanks i love haters. Go buy my single. Twitter @DaTrillStak5

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Weird question, but to battle like that … was it fun at all? Stephen Jackson: When I hit that fan, I definitely enjoyed it -- until that fine came down. That $3 million I lost killed me. It brought me back to reality because I could have lost my job. It was wild because it had never been done before. And it will never happen again so, yeah, adrenaline was flowing. How many people can say that they've punched a fan? Do you know all the stuff that they say to us? The racist stuff they say to us? We get the N-word and people talking about our wives and family. Just because we make a lot of money we're supposed to be the bigger person? Fans tell us that our kids are ugly and that they should have thrown our mothers in jail for having us. That's not disrespectful? I've been in a lot of fights and done some things I shouldn't have done, but I've never sold drugs or been locked up, so for people to think that way about me isn't right. They had life-size posters of me in Utah with me behind bars. Before the situation with Jamaal Tinsley, I had never been in jail, and I'm from the projects! ESPN.com

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Do you regret the Palace brawl? Stephen Jackson: No. Because the idea of Ron laying in the stands unconscious with all his teeth knocked out … no way. That whole arena was against and I didn't have it in my heart not to do anything. ESPN.com

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So what happened with the strip club incident? I was there with Jamaal and some friends just for a night of fun and everything was cool. At the end of the night, I was in my car ready to leave. Then I seen Jamaal walk out of the club with some guy walking behind him with hands in his back pocket like he was fixing to shoot him. I hopped out of my car with my gun. I had a gun license at the time so it was all good. People think I was shooting up the place willy-nilly, but my gun was registered. I saw the guy with his hand in his pocket so I cocked my gun and put it in his face. I slapped him with the gun and we got to fighting before I realized they had planned to jump Jamaal. ESPN.com

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Stephen Jackson: I’ve been in too many club fights not to know what’s going on. I’m not going to get hit from behind, stomped out and just be laying there. So all of a sudden all these cars pull up and I let off a couple warning shots, like telling everyone to back up. After that had happened, dude had jumped in his car and planned on trying to kill me. He hit me with his car. He drove straight into me and I flipped up in the air and landed face-first on the ground and knocked all my teeth out. I hopped right up and lit his whole car up. I didn’t think twice because I’m figuring he tried to smoke Jamaal. ESPN.com

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This is not an everyday situation. Were you worried that you could have killed somebody? No, because he tried to kill me. I knew it was self-defense. He hit me with his car at 45 mph in the parking lot. He tried to kill me. I was cool. I didn’t have one drink that night. As I was walking to my car and he was coming straight for me, I’m glad I was sober where I could think, and I just turned sideways. I hit the windshield and flipped up in the air; then I hit the ground. I had to get plastic surgery on my lips with no anesthesia, with all my teeth gone. Can you imagine how painful that is? ESPN.com

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What do you think of all the other athlete rappers? Stephen Jackson: Well, 98 percent of them have been terrible. The only one I can give credit to is Shaq. He went platinum. But he’s a big guy. It’s hard to swag that out and he did it. ESPN.com

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The injury occurred during the first quarter of Monday night's home game against the Los Angeles Clippers. Jackson is not scheduled to travel with the Spurs on the team’s upcoming six-game road trip that begins on Wednesday, Nov. 21 in Boston. NBA.com

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Stephen Jackson, starting his second game at the position because Kawhi Leonard is out with tendinitis in his left quadriceps, suffered a non-displaced fracture of a bone in his right pinkie finger during the first quarter of the Spurs’ 92-87 loss to the Los Angeles Clippers on Monday night at the AT&T Center. Jackson is expected to be out four-to-six weeks. San Antonio Express-News

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Noted New Balance aficionado Matt Bonner set NBA foot fetishists abuzz when he wore Adidas shoes at a recent shootaround. “I think everybody in the locker room noticed it,” teammate Stephen Jackson said. “The New Balance has been his thing for a long time. It’s kind of like Shaft cutting his ‘fro.” Formerly sponsored by New Balance, Bonner was running low on his favorite shoe until uncovering a few long-lost boxes in a locker at home. “It was kind of like finding the Dead Sea Scrolls,” Bonner said. San Antonio Express-News

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The fact most players are unaware two more women are working games this season proves how far we’ve come the last 16 years. It was 1997 when Violet Palmer and Dee Kantner broke a barrier by becoming the first female officials in any of the four major North American sports leagues. “I think the ladies coming need to pay homage to Violet for her paving the way for them,” Spurs veteran Stephen Jackson said. “To me, Violet’s done a great job. Honestly, she does a better job than some men. She gets the utmost respect from me and she showed the NBA they could bring women in and they could get the job done.” Spurs coach Gregg Popovich has never met a ref he wouldn’t berate, regardless of gender. His rule for evaluating any official is simple. “I think all anybody cares about is competency,” he said. “Gender has nothing to do with it. Competency speaks for itself.” San Antonio Express-News

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Jackson, who scored 12 points in the Spurs’ 101-79 victory over the Pacers at the AT&T Center, was traded to the Warriors midway through the 2006-07 season after an incident at an Indianapolis area strip club and a subsequent in-game confrontation with then-Pacers coach Rick Carlisle. He calls it one of the most important times of his career. “I think those two incidents I had in Indiana kind of made me grow up faster and get back to being a humble Jack and appreciate the game more,” Jackson said. “I think a little bit more now before I react, when I’m on and off the court, from being there. “But I think I learned my worth there. Going there and getting my first big contract taught me a lot about getting the confidence to be a good player and the guy I am on the court.” San Antonio Express-News

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Puff and Biggie. Method Man and Redman. Stephen Jackson and…Kevin Durant? OK, so the release of “Loney at the Top,” the first single from Jackson’s upcoming album “Jack of All Trades” probably isn’t going to make much of a dent in music history. But it’s still notable for the fact that you’ve got two guys from arch rivals combining on a hip-hop track that doesn’t suck. Better than Shaq and the Fu-Schnickens? You be the judge. San Antonio Express-News

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SLAM: Yeah, you’re kind of an old head in the League now. Could you have ever imagined you’d last more than a decade in the NBA? Stephen Jackson: You know what, man, I wouldn’t a said that. I couldn’t of told you I was gonna live to see 25. So to be able to say I’ve been in the NBA for 12 years now, to be able to have a lovely wife, six beautiful kids and it’s looking like a beautiful career in music, it’s been a blessing. I think I’ve been blessed because I’ve always been humble. What you see is what you get from me. I’m not trying to be something I’m not, and I’ve always given everyone the same respect they gave me. I think the game’s taken care of me because I’ve always played every game like it’s my last. SLAM

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SLAM: You’ve kept it 100 the whole way through you career. You think that’s probably why people some people love you and some people hate you? SJ: Yeah. A lot of people dislike the fact that I’m not the typical NBA guy: don’t curse, wear tight pants, all that, and become somebody that they want me to be. I’m not gonna be that. God put me on the earth this way, he gave me the gift of basketball, and one thing they can’t take from is I can play the game. I know how to play the game and they can’t take that from me. At the end of the day, the people that matter to me are the ones who saw me at 5 years old trying to play on the basketball court with 17 year olds. Those people matter to me. They’ve seen the progress I’ve made; they’ve seen how I’ve grown. That’s why I give it back to my city, because a lot of those people helped me along the way. When I’m in other states and other cities, when the spirit moves me, I give a homeless person $20. SLAM

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