It wasn’t the most exciting season for Warriors head coach Mark Jackson in his first season with the team. Hell the Warriors are the Warriors and probably shouldn’t garner much attention with their only real headline being the trade of Monta Ellis to Milwaukee for the corpse of Andrew Bogut.
Things picked up for Jackson Thursday when it was reported by The Smoking Gun that the Warriors head coach is the victim of an extortion plot by a stripper and ex-con.
It get’s worse though…
Jackson, who is married, also apparently sent nude photos to the stripper during their affair six years ago.
The shakedown scheme, which was foiled by the FBI with Jackson’s cooperation, resulted this week in the arrest of Alexis Adams, the former dancer, and her alleged coconspirator, ex-convict Marcus Shaw.
Adams, 28, and Shaw, 40, have been named in felony criminal complaints filed under seal in U.S. District Court in Oakland, California. The duo, whose relationship is unclear, is accused of trying to extort a six-figure payment from Jackson in return for them not disseminating/selling the explicit photos to the “vultures of the media.”
Jackson apparently met Adam’s at a New York strip club when he was an announcer for the New Jersey Nets. The Big Lead reports that Jackson was approached by Shaw in April in Memphis.
The man — who Jackson later identified as Shaw — showed the NBA coach a “folder containing some of the compromising photos” and a CD that he said contained “recordings of voice mail messages” that Jackson “left for Adams during their affair.”
When Jackson asked what he sought for the photos and recordings, Shaw replied, “I want to be made whole.” Shaw, who claimed to have found the compromising material in a storage locker he had purchased for $3500, said he wanted money to fix his teeth and get his car out of an impound lot.
Jackson eventually gave Shaw $5,000 but offered up to $200,000 to get the photos back.
The Warriors and Jackson have since confirmed the extortion plot.
Ref: The Big Lead, The Smoking Gun
