As we all know, or at least many of us know, Stephen Jackson of the Golden State Warriors missed the Indian Wells game yesterday due to "conduct detrimental to the team." While that is their official reason, many feel that it's because of the temper tantrum he threw after picking up 5 fouls in just 10 minutes of play. Yeah, that's Summer League status is what that is.
Though, Don Nelson didn't want to suspend Jackson. Be it the result of Nelson somehow going through 30 years of employment as a coach and never getting the priviledge to tell somebody to GTFO or perhaps there is a backstory here that we don't know about.
What we do know is that Stephen Jackson signed a 3 year extension with the team less than a year ago.
So here is what I'm interested in.
For the Phoenix Suns, it has always been about the run 'n gun style of play and as a result of the decision to keep Gentry, Suns fans should be happy to expect an up-tempo style once again. In their previous season, 2008-2009 the Suns had big man Shaquille O'Neal. They worked around him, though he slowed some of the pace down so Shaq could keep up and they could set up a half court play. It wasn't a rare occurrence to watch Shaq jogging slowly down the court even though he was in better shape than he had been in years. This year, the Big Cactus has gone off to Cleveland to team up with 
