{"id":698821,"date":"2026-06-12T01:51:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T01:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/698821\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T01:51:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T01:51:10","slug":"nba-champion-calls-knicks-fans-miserable-for-incident-with-victor-wembanyama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/698821\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA champion calls Knicks fans \u2018miserable\u2019 for incident with Victor Wembanyama"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stephen Jackson<\/a> has gone viral on X on Thursday for his comments about New York Knicks<\/a> fans. The former NBA<\/a> swingman posted a video after some of them threw eggs<\/a> at Victor Wembanyama<\/a>. It happened when the San Antonio Spurs<\/a> returned to their hotel following Game 4 of the Finals.<\/p>\n

Jackson didn\u2019t hold back, calling those involved \u201cmiserable.\u201d He also stressed that if happened to him or his former teammates, the ending would\u2019ve been different.<\/p>\n

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\u201cY\u2019all fans throwing s*** at Wemby and doing all that. You can tell y\u2019all ain\u2019t used to winning s***. Y\u2019all some miserable people in New York. Miserable. Y\u2019all chose the right time because if it was us, y\u2019all would have got f***** up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jackson spent 14 seasons in the NBA. He bounced around the league but earned consistent playing time for the teams he played for. However, he is also known for his involvement in the \u201cMalice at the Palace\u201d on Nov. 14, 2004. The No. 42 pick in 1997 played for the Indiana Pacers<\/a> at the time and had one of the biggest roles in the infamous incident.<\/p>\n

\"\"Stephen Jackson\u2019s NBA career<\/p>\n

Jackson was a star at Oak Hill Academy in Virginia. He entered the league after attending Butler County Community College in Kansas for one semester. The 6-foot-8 shooting guard\/small forward began his NBA career with the New Jersey Nets<\/a> in 2000.<\/p>\n

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He suited up for eight different franchises and retired in 2014. Jackson hung up his sneakers for good as an NBA champion, winning his lone title with the Spurs in 2003. He averaged 15.1 points, 3.9 rebounds, 3.1 assists and 1.3 steals in 858 career games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stephen Jackson has gone viral on X on Thursday for his comments about New York Knicks fans. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":698822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[302473,3441,1055,31191,52569,355,5489,61778,361,2116,99,302472,32090],"class_list":["post-698821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-butler-county-community-college","tag-indiana-pacers","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-manu-ginobili","tag-matt-barnes","tag-nba","tag-nba-finals","tag-new-jersey-nets","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-san-antonio-spurs","tag-sports","tag-stephen-jackson","tag-victor-wembanyama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=698821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/698822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}