How BAD Was Josh Jackson Actually? 

i completely forgot josh jackson existed. I remember him being one of the big names in the 2017 draft alongside tatum, fultz, and fox, and lonzo. I never knew what happened to him.

Remember the Celtics were thinking of drafting him but he didn't want to go workout for them. That should have told you everything you needed to know about his work ethic.

He had all of the tools to become a Paul George type player. I feel like he was so physically dominant that he never had to work as hard as he should have. When he got to the NBA he found that every player is just as athletic if not moreso. He didn't have the work ethic to fill the gaps in his game. It also hurt him that he went to Phoenix who didn't have a vet who could guide him.

Life long suns fan here. I remember drafting Josh Jackson looking at his production at Kansas and thinking that Andre Igguodala was the floor. It was immediately clear that this was not the case. That was such a brutally disappointing era for Suns fans. We could have had De’Aaron Fox, Jamal Murray, and Pascal Siakam to play with Booker. Instead, the Suns drafted Josh Jackson, Dragan Bender, and Marqueese Chriss. If you include the year before Booker was drafted, the Suns could have taken Jokic instead of TJ Warren, and then been comfortable taking Luka instead of Ayton. Such a nightmare of a butterfly effect.

In one incident he ghosted a Suns fan's event at a local Fry's. GM James Jones had to show up at the supermarket and buy 12 packs of beers for an entire crowd of angry fans lol.

Reminds me of what cam reddish is now , he makes you go damn people sleeping on him! Then go 5 games with terrible averages

Suns fans here - he was part of a long line of poor early draft decisions. Not sure what was the worst - Jackson, Bender or Alex Len with the 5th pick in 2013. Thinking back to the local Suns commentators talking up these players feels so cringe now. People disapprove of taking Ayton over Luka, but I can’t hate on them for making that choice when they did. Ayton was the safer pick at the time, and hindsight is 20/20.

I used to work at az88 in Scottsdale az in 2018 and he came in multiple time and I served him sad to see his down fall like this

Great commentary, great insight. Better than similar channels by a country mile. Keep it up

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Great videos man, entertaining and educational.

Awesome video👍

It’s weird I went to a Salt Lake City Stars game ( Utah jazz g league affiliate) in 2020 and they played the Memphis hustle, and I was shocked when I saw him out there warming up for them. He was one of the biggest names in the draft and now he’s struggling to stay in the g leauge

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I know it's cliche, but I'm gonna say it anyways. Jackson is a prime example of, "hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard."

🔥🔥 vid! Earned a sub. Dope content

Bruhhhh i was literally in the middle of making a What happened to Josh Jackson vid 😭😭 great vid tho bro

Lengthy athletic forwards that can’t shoot are really a dime a dozen for NBA teams. If they want they can get that at anytime. So if ya don’t work hard to their standards and have constant problems off the court (publicly we only know of a few, but there’s endless more) teams are gonna peace out on ya regardless where you’re drafted

" he must have been rolling it up hill" 🤣 that was great very witty

"Your GPA is 0.08. How do you explain this?" "Ummm... sports?"

You do great work👏

Goes to show you that first round talents won’t pan out most of the time. It’s a scary thing to draft players. You never know

I remember he was going to go to MSU. Or at least a huge target. That msu team would have been insane with bridges, tillman, ward, winston, etc.

I distinctly remember being higher on Jackson than Tatum 😭 boy did i miss there

Good video

Nice breakdowns, feels so nostalgic and it's weird to think Josh was in the 2017 class. It seems like he came in the league a decade ago and not with Lonzo Ball. I specifically remember thinking he had so much potential and I ended up being wrong about him which isn't often for me. Josh Jackson and Kristaps I got very wrong. His biggest problem was shooting and he could never fix it.

I remember i went to high school with his cousin and his cousin would always say “my cousin going to the NBA” when Josh was in HS. I found out Josh’s rookie season that he was cousins with the guy I went to school with 🤯Ik he’s a bust but man to know in high school that you’re 90% sure that your playing in the nba is insane

I remember hearing Josh voice for the first time it told tell me everything I needed to know about him.

suns took alex len, dragan bender, marquese chriss, and josh jackson in successive draft lotteries, oof......

It is crazy to think that some athletes have everything you can want physically but mentally they are below average in work ethic and habits.

I loved that 2017 Kansas team.. Azuibuike down low, LaGerald Vick, Josh Jackson of course, Svi Mykhailiuk, Devonte Graham… as I look it up now forgot about Frank Mason, Perry Ellis, that was a dope team! Edit: Great breakdown, I subbed

The coolest part of this video were those slick teal 'Couv Grizzlies throwback uni's 10:45

im still rooting for him i hope he figures things out he is still young

You are a really good story teller when it comes to these NBA guys who just couldn't cut it at the top level. Great research as always.

I remember watching him at Kansas and in High school and thinking he was T-Mac who could play Point Guard, he was special

This dude only 25 and he got a video like this on him. SMH

“He had to repeat the eighth grade reportedly due to the love of the game overtaking his grades” Did Josh say that? Cuz it reads like a teenager lie

I clicked on the vid by accident, found a gem of a channel 🧑🏽‍🦯🔥

This video kept the AAU ball out and how this happens more and more and how he was older then everyone else so it made him look better

The off court personal issues mentioned in this video are not even a fraction of his off court issues. I am a family member of his daughter. At 2 years old, His Daughter was in the ICU because of a drowning accident. Josh did not want to help pay for daycare and was attacking his daughter's mother with his huge team of lawyers. The mother had to take their daughter to work to clean an airbnb and while trying to work, the baby slipped out the door and fell in the pool. Her Mother found her floating lifeless. She was able to resucitate her with CPR and the baby was taken to ICU. Josh was made aware of the incident within minutes of his daughter being taken to ICU. He was at NBA all star in Miami when this happened and decided to stay in Miami instead of flying out to Arizona to be with his daughter. He then ignored the calls from the hospital and never followed up to check up on his daughter. While his Daughter was in ICU Josh was posting himself on instagram, partying it up with a bunch of escorts. If this doesn't tell you what kind of person this Man/Child is, nothing will. No one in our family likes him. His daughter is precious and an absolute cutie. I'm not exactly sure on the details but from what I heard, his daughter and the Mom have to get around in public buses.

as someone who has close friends who are stoners (personally not my thing but i think its fine for adults) i find it seriously disgusting that he did that to his BABY and i hope he never has the opportunity to see her again i hope cps takes that baby far away from him as obviously he is beyond unfit to be a father

When is someone gonna make another video about THEM KINGS!!!!

Loved his athleticism, loved how much of a dog he was and most importantly, I loved how great he was at facilitating the ball. He had such high basketball IQ but it seems like as soon as he lost his confidence he lost his game. I thought we were watching Tracy McGrady who could play the point guard when he was at Prolific

Dragan Bender, a cool name I so wanted that to be an attack in Dragon Ball GT, maybe one by Omega Shenron

As a Kings fan, it was the only silver lining for years a team finally drafted a bust over the star that Sac picked 😂

Drafted 4th ahead of D. Foxx, Markkanen and D. Mitchell. Out of the league six years later. One of the biggest busts that isn't talked.

You had me intrigued after “4 month year old daughter high”

It looks like he never learned any humility after his talent was recognized. Someone he respected should have rolled up on him and said, "guys like you are a dime a dozen in the NBA. To stand out, you have to work hard every day. Every state in the country has ten guys like you who are willing to work hard to get to the NBA. They will take your job." It's too bad. But he's not the only guy out there whose high school years were the best years of their lives. Happens to most of them, really.

It's funny he was actually considered the player with the highest ceiling in his draft class, and maybe he was. 6'8 with long arms, showed potential in shooting, scoring, defense and even a bit of playmaking.

I saw Josh as a freshman and sophomore in Detroit and he looked bored out there. He was just better than everyone else on the court and it wasn't even close. I hope he is able to get his career back on track.

He's still relatively young and just didn't work on his craft and these guys now that's coming into the league better take notice cause the draft goes on every year and new players come in and your spot on a team is slim to none if you don't work constantly

I worked as a beer merchandiser at the grocery store he was supposed to make an appearance at while he was in Phoenix. He had a CROWD waiting for him, that supported him and wanted him to do well. Once he no showed, he lost ALL support in PHX.

Can you do a video about Harry Giles?

As a Suns fan I was admittedly stoked we got him instead of Tatum. Safe to say I may have been off. What a scrub on and off the court

With you all the way except the 'should have stayed in college to mature' stuff. That's such a myth. He acted out in college too, surrounded by tons of immature coeds and immature party friends and an administration that enables his bad behavior and professors who fawn over him and give straight As even when he doesn't show up. How could anyone mature in that environment?

This just goes to show how many careers get ruined by the one-and-done process. He was an absolute beast at times at KU, but he clearly needed more time to grow, both as a player and a man, and the NBA doesn't have the patience for that. Stay in school, kids.

I live near Detroit and met some people that played against him in HS. Said he was absurdly, overwhelmingly good. Shows how strong the talent is in the NBA and how hard it can be to make the adjustment to playing a role

As a Magic fan, I feel like if Orlando doesn't want him, nobody does. Haha. That being said, it's interesting to see who and how they develop. I actually see a pretty direct comparison (defense aside) to Jalen Suggs. I feel like the difference is what is mentioned many times in this video. Maturity. The difference between, for example, Chauncey Billups and Jackson might simply be what they want from life. It seems that Jackson wasn't willing to sacrifice his life to be an NBA player. That's the type of drive most NBA players need, and I'm not shocked or surprised that some don't have it. I don't think I would have it. Suggs was taken 4th, struggled his rookie year, but has seemed willing to put in the relentless work and dedication. Time will tell.

what's that guys name @ 12:20. I remember something funny happening involving him a few years ago.

$28,000,000 Career Earnings...He Won at Life

This dude was pulling up to Pistons games with Sada Baby 😂😭🪦

He left the streets, but the streets didn’t leave him!

That draft he was in was crazy now that I think about it

We need an Anthony Bennett video

This dude was my favorite player in high school and college damn it sucks what happened to his career

Gotta make a Jalen Green and Kilian Hayes “how bad they actually were” vids

As a ku fan I hyped this dude up a lot turns out more than I should have lol. Ku beat Kentucky that season and in that game josh put up 20 and 10 outplaying fox, monk, and bam. He also scored 23 points in the tournament outplaying miles bridges. I think his problem was that “dog” scouts thought he had was actually just attitude problems. So much of the NBA is oppertuntity and he didn’t take advantage of his. The suns gave up on him too early because he was a idiot off the court. If he wasn’t they would’ve been alot more patient with him on the court.

Even if he never developed but has good work ethic, he could at least be like a Herb Jones type of player

I feel like some of these scouts are going just off highlight videos and clips just like we do lmao

Never understood this. As a KU fan I said when he was in college he wasn’t it. It just didn’t look right.

Straight Bust called it coming out of high school. Dude had nothing that stood out fundamentally to excel in the league.

It's sad but a lot of highly touted prospects from Detroit just don't have the work ethic to develop any further once they make it to the league. I'm from Detroit. There's too many of these types of players in our history and I don't really know why. Maybe it's the same everywhere and I just pay attention to Detroit players because we hear about them.

Idk why, but Josh Jackson was a player who I tried to follow, despite not being a Suns fan (MFFL). When he was traded to Memphis, it seemed for a second like they might have gotten a steal, but it's sad that he just couldn't put it together. At least he wasn't Anthony Bennett

I always felt if he went to a veteran team with more discipline he could have been a nice role player. But JJ couldn’t even survive in detroit so there’s that lol

He might be solid on a team that's willing to open him open

Yoooo @1:25 he’s playing against my high school freshman year I was just about to comment that he crushed us once. Dude had Lebron’s status in the hood lmao everyone wanted a picture

What has happened to Josh? He had a great preseason, then got cut. Since then, he's fallen off the radar.

Josh Jackson's biggest problem is he's a head case.

Remember when the suns wouldn't add him in deal for kyrie years back?

So he skipped that workout with the Celtics and we got jayson Tatum instead

If Josh jacobs went to that Celtics workout, we could have seen a Tatum, and booker led suns, and knowing how the suns have been for the last 3 years, who knows how that could have changed the nba

weird enough markelle fultz just might be able to shed his bust label if he was to stay healthy. The way he's been playing kinda shows why he was picked 1st overall. As far as josh jackson goes, i was more disappointed in dennis smith jr not panning out than he was.

Him and Bender were such a draft pick waste for the Suns. Really wish we got Fox over him in that draft class.

Him getting an 8 on his leadership evaluation at 4:58 just goes to show blind and/or dumb people are if a guy has talent

Damn I forgot all about him

He’s probably too reliant on his physicality when in high school and college, so other parts of his game never really developed. Once he got to the NBA his strengths were just the norm, and his weaknesses were magnified.

Much better than the crud Mike korzemba is making lately

Song at the end name

Today kids are too caught up with trying to be the greatest and Head to the NBA ASAP instead of just being themselves and improving on themselves in every area and just letting life happen for them. What I'm saying is that now and days both the kids and the grown ups are putting too much pressure on the kids and warping the view of the game itself and the true reason why the NBA is the best. When I grew up it was understood that the NBA and NFL were way ahead of the college games to the point of calling them completely different games/sports. Going to the league out of Highschool was rare AF. That is the problem most players can't cut it in the NBA but can't seem to understand that. With that said get your money young man and don't leave any on the table.

I remember I convinced my whole class year that he was my brother I had to tell them we weren’t related once he started throwing career away

A lot of people on draft day said he was better then jayson tatam 😭😭😭

Mikal bridges ended up fulfilling that role

Whats the song at the beggining?

As a Pistons fan, watching him flounder with Blake Griffin was very difficult to watch

He’s still got time

5 minute interview with these guys will tell you more about them than their stats will

He was so good because he was older than everybody