It’s no secret that skilled athletes are liable to play some poker whereas on the highway. Details lately emerged that one sport that includes NBA legends Mark Jackson and Reggie Miller actually received out of hand whereas they had been members of the Indiana Pacers.
Larry Bird was the crew’s coach on the time and an incident within the poker sport finally led to police being known as and one participant sustaining accidents.
“We were at the training camp at Disney Institute in Orlando, and we were playing cards late at night,” Jackson said on his podcast. “Something broke off in the middle of the card game with somebody that was a guest. Somebody ended up getting hurt – police were called. Next day Larry Bird calls Reggie and I in the office, he’s like, ‘I don’t know if you know, there was a card game in Dale Davis’ room last night.’ Reggie and I are like, ‘What?! Are you serious?’”
Avoiding Controversy
Miller and Jackson feigned ignorance of the state of affairs, however in fact knew what went down all alongside as they had been on the card sport. With some fast pondering, they prevented getting in bother with the coach.
“‘You want us to talk to Dale? I mean, this is unacceptable that something like this would go on,’” Miller recalled telling his coach. “I was like, ‘coach, we’ll handle it.’ Then we walk out of the office and we’re like, ‘I told you they were going to find out.’”
Surprisingly, information of the incident by no means made it out to the media. Jackson stated it wasn’t till a few week later that Bird realized Miller and Jackson had been really within the poker sport.
Bird didn’t punish the 2 and each Miller praised him for that method. They believed as a former participant he understood the state of affairs.
“Larry Bird was so great as a coach and as a person, he saw the comical side of us sitting there not ratting the whole story out,” Jackson stated. “We were a tied-together team. We really had a blast playing with each other and for each other.”
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