Casey Jacobsen: J.R. Smith was biggest ballhog, me-first teammate
Former NBA player Casey Jacobsen is now playing ball in Germany. He’s written a few blog posts for SLAM Online and his latest entry made some ripples. Jacobsen, the former Stanford star, gave his “yearbook awards,” and his award for J.R. Smith was not kind.
Most selfish teammate: JR Smith
I played with JR his rookie year in New Orleans in 2005. We were a bad team...
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Darko Milicic is not a fan of banks, keeps his cash
Recently, former NBA player Casey Jacobsen has been writing a blog for Slam Magazine online talking about his experiences in the National Basketball Association.In his latest post, Jacobsen dished out his "Yearbook Awards" and told us this interesting story about former teammate, Darko Milicic:It’s nearly impossible to explain the weirdness that is Darko, but he told...
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The Memphis Grizzlies renounce rights to two players
The Grizzlies have renounced the rights to Casey Jacobsen and Andre Brown which will save them some money against the salary cap. 27-year old shooting guard Casey Jacobsen didn’t have his best season last year for the Grizzlies. He played in 53 games (0 starts) last season and he averaged 10.3 minutes, 2.0 [...]
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August 09, 2008
Allow Me to Introduce Myself
NBA vet; father; husband; world traveler; tongue twister; teetotaler… Casey Jacobsen is a man of many hats. Casey will be playing with Brose Baskets in Bamberg, Germany for the ‘09-10 season, and he’ll be blogging with SLAMonline from across the pond. You may know him as a former high school and college All-American, but we bet you didn’t know this…...
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August 27, 2009
My ‘Yearbook Awards’
by Casey Jacobsen
Do you remember when you got your yearbook in high school and there would always be those cheesy lists/awards about who was voted most popular, most likely to succeed, and best eyes? These “awards” are kind of like that, but with my teammates during the course of my four-year NBA career (Phoenix, New Orleans, Memphis).
Weirdest teammate… in a good way: Chris...
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11 days ago
Finding Success
by Casey Jacobsen
There aren’t a lot of superstars in the NBA. That term is used very loosely by fans who sometimes trick themselves into crowning their team’s leading scorer as part of the League’s elite.
Being a talented scorer doesn’t always make your team better, especially if they can’t do other things to help win games. I’ve played with and against a lot of guys...
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January 18, 2010
True Professionals
by Casey Jacobsen
One of the things I love most about the game of basketball is that it is a team game — it’s not just about you. It’s about getting all five guys on the court, regardless of where they are from or what God they worship, to come together for a common goal: To win.
You can’t accomplish that goal with just one good player (for example, the 2008 Cleveland...
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October 19, 2009
The Memphis Grizzlies sign Casey Jacobsen
The Grizzlies have signed Casey Jacobsen to a 1-year contract. He hasn’t played in the NBA since the 2004-05 season so he could be a little bit rusty. In 234 career NBA games Jacobsen has averaged 20.4 minutes, 5.9 points, 1.9 rebounds and 1.2 assists per game. He has shot 39.9% from [...]
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January 30, 2008
Decade’s Best: International Player
by Casey Jacobsen
Selecting the best basketball player of the past decade at any level is a daunting task. Usually, arguments can be made for several guys. Do individual stats (I.e. Allen Iverson) or winning championships (I.e. Tim Duncan) define the best individuals in a team sport?
When discussing the best international player of the past decade, this is especially difficult because...
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December 22, 2009
(Too Much?) Power to Influence
by Casey Jacobsen
When I was a boy, all I wanted to do was play sports with my friends in my suburban neighborhood of Glendora, CA. I was tall, but not huge. I wasn’t fast, but not slow either. I could jump well, but that was by “white boy” standards. And although I come from family with basketball history (my father and two older brothers played college basketball), no one...
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October 05, 2009
What was your first Spurstalk post?
Or for you older people, SR or whatever was before that?
Mine was on why Casey Jacobsen would be a good pick in the 2002 draft. Truth is I didn't know **** about the guy, I just wanted to fit in.
My first Spurstalk post was a SpursWoman happy birthday message. :toast
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August 26, 2009
Guarding MJ and LeBron
by Casey Jacobsen
This is the story of the first time I met Michael Jordan and LeBron James. I didn’t meet them both on the same day, but the stories of my first encounters with these two basketball idols are eerily similar.
Just like every kid who ever picked up a basketball in the 1980s, I was obsessed with Michael Jordan. According to me, he was already the greatest player of...
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September 09, 2009
A Silent Sensei
by Casey Jacobsen
When I committed to play college basketball at Stanford in 1999, I did so because I thought it was the perfect fit for me. Not only was it an amazing academic institution, their basketball program had been transformed into a respected contender for a national championship, year in and year out. Stanford also had a promising group of underclassmen to help live up...
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November 02, 2009
Team Chemistry
by Casey Jacobsen
Some basketball aficionados believe that good team chemistry is one of the most crucial components of a winning team. Others claim that it’s overrated and too often used as an excuse to explain why a talented team doesn’t reach their potential.
So which side is right?
To better answer this question, it might benefit us to attempt to define what team chemistry...
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March 09, 2011
Best of the (basketball) net: Multiculti multimedia edition
For this week’s edition of “Best of the (Basketball) Net,” Ball in Europe goes multimedia with a collection of videos, podcasts, mix “tapes” and a bit of – gasp! – actual writing about the game we love.
Casey Jacobsen clearly and simply enumerates the differences between playing ball in “The NBA vs. Europe” once and for [...]
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September 05, 2009
Obsessed With BBall
by Casey Jacobsen
I have to confess something — I used to have a basketball addiction.
I’ve never done drugs in my life so I’m not sure what that is like, but when I was a young man basketball was all that I wanted to do. It made me happy and comforted me when I was sad. I’m pretty sure that this passion for the game originated with my father and older brothers, traveling...
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February 16, 2011
Getting Older Sucks
by Casey Jacobsen
I don’t know how many years I have left in my body to play basketball. I hope I have at least three more seasons, but nobody’s time in professional sports is guaranteed. As a an athlete, I am well aware of the fact that my career can end at any time due to physical injury or something else unforeseen. As I will turn 30 years old this season, I am the second...
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November 08, 2010
NBA Players I’d Pay to See
by Casey Jacobsen
When I officially retire from the sport of basketball and hopefully take a “real job” somewhere in the United States, I want to start a tradition of taking my three daughters to see some NBA games. As a former player, I appreciate the talent level of the League and readily admit that the NBA contains the best athletes in the world.
If my daughters choose to...
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January 30, 2011
Unforgetable Marbury
by Casey Jacobsen
I recently read an article about Stephon Marbury signing a contract to play in China for the remainder of the season and it got me thinking. I hadn’t thought about him much since last summer when his strange behavior over the internet was the talk of the basketball world. Although our basketball paths crossed briefly, playing with Stephon Marbury was an experience...
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February 01, 2010
Sign 'em Up
The New Orleans Hornets have decided exercise their option on rookie forward Jackson Vroman. That means the forward will stay with the team though the 2005-06 season. Vroman was originally acquired from the Phoenix Suns along with Casey Jacobsen and Maciej Lampe in exchange for Jim Jackson and a 2005...
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January 25, 2008
Stephon Marbury Brings His Unselfish Brand Of Play To China
On the same day former Suns teammate Casey Jacobsen characterized the former (Self-Proclaimed) No. 1 Point Guard In The NBA to be “one of the most polarizing players I ever played with”, the New York Post’s Justin “Don’t Call Me Vinny” Terranova reports Stephon Marbury had a less than auspicious debut with China’s Shanxi Zhongyu [...]
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February 01, 2010
‘I’m Rooting for LeBron’
by Casey Jacobsen
One of the hottest topics of discussion these days is who is better between LeBron and Kobe. During the past two seasons, the King’s improved play at both ends of the court has emphatically eliminated any doubt about who reigns over the League right now.
The ONLY knock against James is he hasn’t won a championship yet, but that isn’t necessarily his fault...
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March 09, 2010
This Isn’t the End of Jeremy Tyler
by Casey Jacobsen
Eight months ago, high school junior Jeremy Tyler made history when he announced he was skipping his senior season at San Diego HS to become a professional basketball player in Europe. Our country is used to athletes leaving college before graduating, but high school? Not surprisingly, Tyler’s decision was very controversial and it seemed like everyone had an...
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March 22, 2010
The NBA vs. Europe
by Casey Jacobsen
If I had a dollar for each time someone asked me what the differences are between the NBA and European basketball (FIBA), I could retire right now at the young age of 28. It’s a good question, and one that can’t be answered in few words.
Some background:
European basketball has been steadily improving for the past 30 years. Long before there was a Dirk Nowitzki...
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August 31, 2009
You Only Got One Shot
by Casey Jacobsen
Just this past Sunday after a night of practice, I sat down on my couch in Bamberg, Germany and opened the “Slingbox” application on my laptop computer (if you don’t know what Slingbox is, google it….right now.) Thanks to modern technology, I am still able to watch live NFL games from my house even though I live thousands of miles away. As this current football...
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December 31, 2009
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