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Originally Posted by madlex
I don't really have one that's why I asked the question.
The only thing I could come up with was that Donna Burke didn't want to work with Mark Jackson or that ESPN decided to do the NBA a favor by replacing two guys who frequently criticized players and the league. I have no idea how Rivers is going to handle that but I would assume that Burke is going to be much more player/league friendly than van Gundy and Jackson.
FWIW, my main issue here isn't that they replaced Jackson. I never liked him anyway. But paying him millions for two years of not working for them while doing budget cuts everywhere will probably cost a decent number of lower level workers their jobs.
It's clear to me Doc is miles ahead of Mark Jackson in communicating. Doc does very well with the media and I'm pretty sure ESPN took note of that. Jackson's delivery is sloppy, he doesn't know when to speak and when to let the other guy finish, and his volume is absurdly low.
The other stuff about Doc knowing 1000x over Jackson is probably irrelevant.