BASKETBALL: Jackson takes families Christmas shopping
Published 12:39 pm Saturday, December 8, 2018
Former NBA player Stephen Jackson, holding a baby, talks with Port Arthur Mayor Derrick Freeman inside Target at Central Mall on Saturday morning. (I.C. Murrell/The News)
A young boy stares at a camera as Stephen Jackson, holding a baby, and a friend stand inside Target at Central Mall on Saturday morning. (I.C. Murrell/The News)
Former NBA player Stephen Jackson holds an unidentified baby as he speaks with a friend inside Target at Central Mall on Saturday morning. (I.C. Murrell/The News)
Former NBA player Stephen Jackson holds an unidentified baby inside Target at Central Mall on Saturday morning. (I.C. Murrell/The News)
Former NBA player Stephen Jackson plays with an unidentified boy inside Target at Central Mall on Saturday morning. (I.C. Murrell/The News)
Former NBA player and Port Arthur native Stephen Jackson gave away $50 gift cards to 100 families for Christmas shopping at Target inside Central Mall on Saturday morning.
“Christmas with a Champion” allowed single mothers with children ages 3-11 to each register for a gift card at the Stephen Jackson Academy on Thursday. Jackson held the event through his Jack 1 Foundation.
Jackson, who led Lincoln High to a state basketball championship in 1995, won an NBA championship with the San Antonio Spurs in 2003. He spent 14 years in the NBA (2000-14), averaging 15.1 points per game.
Jackson also appeared at the induction of Earl Evans and Kendrick Perkins into the Museum of the Gulf Coast Sports Hall of Fame on Saturday.
About I.C. Murrell
I.C. Murrell was promoted to editor of The News, effective Oct. 14, 2019. He previously served as sports editor since August 2015 and has won or shared eight first-place awards from state newspaper associations and corporations. He was born in Memphis, Tennessee, grew up mostly in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, and graduated from the University of Arkansas at Monticello.
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