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Draymond Green: I always talk about the importance of vets in the locker room. I am a product of great vets. I had Jarrett Jack, Jermaine O'Neal, David Lee, Carl Landry, David West. I had Andrew Bogut. I had great vets. Now, that's one of the things that's missing from the league.

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Omari Sanfoka II: Bickerstaff on Jarrett Jack: "He's always been a leader, a guy that who wanted to lead guys and people will follow ... I'm going to be leaning on him a ton because he's been working with these guys in the past." Said he can relate to players and teach X's and O's.

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But it didn't matter to Green, who often sits in on the Warriors' draft meetings and prospects' workouts. He texted Myers and urged him to pick Kuminga. "You knew the gift was there," Green said of Kuminga. "He would just need a few years. And for me, having Jarrett Jack telling me he's good, that means a lot." But Kuminga didn't initially take to Green's form of mentorship -- at least not enough for the longtime vocal leader of the Warriors. "You get to a place in your career where you've accomplished X, you've accomplished Y and Z," Green said, "so he should just listen to me. It's a slap in the face for me, not in a negative way, just like 'Wake up, you're not listening.'"

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James Edwards III: Patrick Beverley is causing a scene before Pistons-76ers. Went over to talk to Isaiah Stewart in the middle of his workout, then started jawing with Jarrett Jack. Security for both teams got in the middle. All is good now. Stewart got ejected last game for his retaliation after Bev elbowed him.

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Jarrett Jack, a former NBA vet himself who joined Monty Williams’ coaching staff this offseason and coached their summer league team, had inquiries about the Pistons’ latest lottery pick, Ausar Thompson. “He would ask me things like what are his strengths, what are his weaknesses, how can I get him the ball,” Overtime elite GM Damien Wilkins recalled in a phone interview with the Free Press on Thursday. “I would just tell him, ‘Just put him on the floor. Just put him in the game. They are basketball players, Ausar and Amen. They’re basketball players. You put him on the floor and a lot of good things are going to happen.’”

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Mike Curtis: The #Pistons’ summer league roster has been announced. Assistant Jarrett Jack will serve as the summer league coach. The roster is highlighted by Jaden Ivey, Jalen Duren and James Wiseman, along with rookies Ausar Thompson and Marcus Sasser. pic.twitter.com/tljSszeviW

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Adrian Wojnarowski: Monty Williams has hired Jarrett Jack as an assistant coach on his Detroit Pistons staff, sources tell ESPN. Jack established himself as a fast-rising future head coaching candidate on Williams’ staff with the Suns.

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Jarrett Jack, five years older than the 34-year-old Kevin Durant, had a 13-year NBA career before making his way into coaching with Suns head coach Monty Williams in 2021. Both coaches, like Durant, grew up in P.G. County, a region of Maryland right outside Washington D.C. Jack’s family ran AAU programs in the area, tournaments that Durant played in year-round for much of his childhood. “Seeing Jarrett and his brother Justin running around the gym, I’ve just been knowing them since I was a baby,” Durant told Arizona Sports on Tuesday.

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Monty Williams went on to play collegiately at Notre Dame before getting selected 24th overall in the 1994 NBA Draft. Durant was 5 years old at the time. While he didn’t get to see that part of Williams’ journey unfold, there’s a local legacy his new coach had built. “His name rung bells around our town,” Durant said. “You got somebody that can make the NBA from P.G. County that played in the public school system — that’s definitely rare at that time.”

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“We’re of the same stuff, we speak the same language,” Jack said. “We probably have been faced with the same hurdles at times. Probably in the same place! … Someone speaks and your ears perk up and you’re like, ‘I know exactly what he’s talking about.’ I can [place] the setting literally right here in my face. It’s not foreign to me rather than other people.”

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Sources close to the league claimed that Kaepernick’s investment would allow the league to continue operating. Multiple players with the BIG3 league had been preparing for a potential shutdown, sources told The Athletic. BIG3 is a 3-on-3 basketball league founded by Ice Cube and entertainment executive Jeff Kwatinetz. The league began in 2017 and consists of 12 teams. After the 2020 season was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the league restarted in 2021. Team Trilogy — consisting of former NBA players including Jarrett Jack and Amir Johnson, coached by Stephen Jackson — won the league last year.

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Andrew Lopez: There were two fans walking around with “F*** Jar Crowder” shirts with extras in their hand. Just now, Devin Booker had one with him as he walked to the back and Jarrett Jack had a handful of shirts as they went to the locker room.

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Brandon 'Scoop B' Robinson: Phoenix Suns assistant coach Jarrett Jack is stepping away from the @thebig3 's Trilogy team as captain to devote his time to coaching with Suns head coach Monty Williams sources tell @BallySports .

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AT THEIR FIRST team meeting this season, Jarrett Jack, just starting as a Phoenix Suns assistant coach, stood to deliver some motivation for a team coming off an NBA Finals run. "There are people," Jack told the group, "who don't think you deserved to make the Finals."

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