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Bobby Jackson
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Jackson in 2015
Philadelphia 76ers
Assistant coach
Personal information
Born (1973-03-13) March 13, 1973 (age 52)
East Spencer, North Carolina, U.S.
High school Salisbury
(Salisbury, North Carolina)
Listed height 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Listed weight 185 lb (84 kg)
Career information
College
  • Western Nebraska CC (1993–1995)
  • Minnesota (1995–1997)
NBA Draft 1997 / Round: 1 / Pick: 23rd overall
Selected by the Seattle SuperSonics
Pro career 1997–2009
Coaching career 2011–present
League NBA
Career history
As player:
1997–1998 Denver Nuggets
1998–2000 Minnesota Timberwolves
2000–2005 Sacramento Kings
2005–2006 Memphis Grizzlies
2006–2008 New Orleans Hornets
2008 Houston Rockets
2008–2009 Sacramento Kings
As coach:
2011–2013 Sacramento Kings (assistant)
2021–2023 Stockton Kings
2023–present Philadelphia 76ers (assistant)
Career highlights and awards
  • NBA Sixth Man of the Year (2003)
  • NBA All-Rookie Second Team (1998)
  • Consensus second-team All-American (1997)
  • Big Ten Player of the Year (1997)*
*Selection later vacated
Career NBA statistics
Points 7,344 (9.7 ppg)
Rebounds 2,347 (3.1 rpg)
Assists 1,945 (2.6 apg)

Bobby Jackson (born March 13, 1973) is an American professional basketball coach who is an assistant coach for the Philadelphia 76ers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for Western Nebraska Community College and the University of Minnesota. In the NBA, he played for several teams over twelve seasons, from 1997 to 2009.

Playing career

Collegiate

Jackson graduated from Salisbury High School in 1992. He attended Western Nebraska Community College and later the University of Minnesota. As a Golden Gopher, Bobby Jackson led Minnesota to the Final Four, where they lost to the Kentucky Wildcats.

Professional

Jackson was selected by the Seattle SuperSonics with the 23rd pick in the 1997 NBA draft. He was traded to the Denver Nuggets prior to his rookie season where he played 68 games before moving on to a more familiar place in Minnesota where he donned a Timberwolves jersey for two seasons.

He is perhaps best known for his years in Sacramento when he played for the Kings from 2000 to 2005, where he was known as "Action Jackson" and was a crowd favorite. In the 2002 NBA Playoffs, after he and his team finished with a 61–21 regular season record, Jackson and the Kings came within one game of making the NBA Finals, eliminated controversially by the Los Angeles Lakers. During the 2002-03 NBA season, Jackson averaged a career-best 15.2 points per game on the way to being named the Sixth Man of the Year. Jackson suffered an abdominal strain early in the 2004–05 season that forced him to miss 51 games. The following season, he was traded to the Memphis Grizzlies for Bonzi Wells.

On July 29, 2008, it was reported that Jackson would be traded by the Rockets back to the Sacramento Kings along with Donté Greene, a 2009 first round draft pick and cash consideration in exchange for Ron Artest (now Metta World Peace). The trade was completed on August 14, due to Greene's rookie contract signing on July 14.

Jackson retired from the NBA on October 24, 2009.

Coaching career

Jackson became an assistant coach for the Sacramento Kings. On June 5, 2013, new Kings coach Michael Malone announced that the 2012–13 assistant coaches would not be retained for the 2013–14 season.

On September 9, 2013, Jackson was hired by the Minnesota Timberwolves as a player development coach.

In 2021, Jackson was named the head coach of the Stockton Kings in the NBA G League.

On September 5, 2023, Jackson became an assistant coach for the Philadelphia 76ers.

NBA career statistics

Legend
  GP Games played   GS  Games started  MPG  Minutes per game
 FG%  Field goal percentage  3P%  3-point field goal percentage  FT%  Free throw percentage
 RPG  Rebounds per game  APG  Assists per game  SPG  Steals per game
 BPG  Blocks per game  PPG  Points per game  Bold  Career high

Regular season

Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG
1997–98 Denver 68 53 30.0 .392 .259 .814 4.4 4.7 1.5 .2 11.6
1998–99 Minnesota 50* 12 18.8 .405 .370 .772 2.7 3.3 .8 .1 7.1
1999–00 Minnesota 73 10 14.2 .405 .283 .776 2.1 2.4 .7 .1 5.1
2000–01 Sacramento 79 7 20.9 .439 .375 .739 3.1 2.0 1.1 .1 7.2
2001–02 Sacramento 81 3 21.6 .443 .361 .810 3.1 2.0 .9 .1 11.1
2002–03 Sacramento 59 26 28.4 .464 .379 .846 3.7 3.1 1.2 .1 15.2
2003–04 Sacramento 50 0 23.7 .444 .370 .752 3.5 2.1 1.0 .2 13.8
2004–05 Sacramento 25 0 21.4 .427 .344 .862 3.4 2.4 .6 .1 12.0
2005–06 Memphis 71 15 25.0 .382 .389 .733 3.1 2.7 .9 .0 11.4
2006–07 NO/Oklahoma City 56 2 23.8 .394 .327 .774 3.2 2.5 .9 .1 10.6
2007–08 New Orleans 46 0 19.4 .392 .368 .816 2.4 1.7 .7 .1 7.1
Houston 26 5 19.2 .419 .341 .750 2.7 2.4 .5 .1 8.8
2008–09 Sacramento 71 10 20.9 .398 .305 .851 2.8 2.0 .9 .1 7.5
Career 755 143 22.2 .417 .354 .793 3.1 2.6 .9 .0 9.7

Playoffs

Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG
1999 Minnesota 4 0 6.8 .200 .000 .000 1.0 .5 .0 .0 1.0
2000 Minnesota 3 0 10.0 .500 .333 1.000 1.7 1.3 .7 .3 5.0
2001 Sacramento 8 0 22.8 .438 .286 .714 3.3 2.3 1.0 .0 7.0
2002 Sacramento 16 1 23.4 .445 .256 .791 3.3 2.0 .9 .2 10.9
2003 Sacramento 12 0 27.6 .457 .349 .886 4.5 3.3 1.0 .1 14.3
2005 Sacramento 5 0 15.8 .270 .167 1.000 1.2 1.8 .2 .2 5.2
2006 Memphis 4 0 25.0 .414 .364 .714 2.0 1.3 .3 .0 8.3
2008 Houston 6 2 23.0 .286 .208 .636 1.7 1.5 .8 .0 8.7
Career 58 3 21.7 .405 .270 .807 2.8 2.1 .7 .1 9.2

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