"Stephen Jackson(notes) wants a contract extension, he was "underrated" and "underpaid" during his time in Charlotte (his quotes), and if the NBA's players union wants to keep any sort of public goodwill during a lockout that a goodly chunk of sports fans will still refer to as "a strike," then Players Association boss Billy Hunter needs to buy Jackson his own yacht and six month's worth of gas and supplies, and tell him to find China by going West.

Because this guy is your grandfather's ideal of the worst of NBA basketball, typified. He bounces from small market to desperate small market, making untold gobs of money for an "overrated" and eventually "overpaid" (all quotation marks can be attributed to your humble author) style of basketball that looks good when those flat-footed threes fall in, but falls short everywhere else.

And in an introductory news conference in Milwaukee on Wednesday, just a day and a half before the NBA is sure to lock out its players, the owner of a contract that will pay him the outrageous fee of $19.3 million over the next two years is asking for a contract extension.

Never mind that he'll be 35 when the extension starts, and that he's clearly in decline right now.

Never mind that he's had issues on every team he's ever been with, even on a New Jersey Nets team that saw nobody really caring whether or not Stephen Jackson was on the roster.

Never mind that he's not worth anything near what he'll make over the last two years of his current deal.

Never mind that the nine years and $66 million he'll have played for between 2004 and 2011 has been more than sufficient."