In recent years one of the biggest uncertainties when it came to the Detroit Pistons was if Reggie Jackson would be healthy enough to play the whole season. These questions & uncertainties took a toll on optimistic Pistons fans as they hoped for their team to go into each season at a hundred percent. Reggie Jackson recently did an interview with The Detroit News, where he detailed the toll that his reoccurring injuries had placed on him. Getting so bad that he even contemplated retirement once his contract was up.
“A few years back, I thought (my future) was retirement after this season,” Jackson said in his interview with The Detroit News. “I’m just happy to be in a good state of mind and playing ball this year. We’ll figure (the future) out from there. I’m excited about what we can possibly do this year… I was just getting injured too much and I had hit basketball depression and it was a point in time that I really didn’t want to deal with the game anymore. It was more the injuries that started to have that (retirement) thought creep in my head.”
Hopefully, this is the end of Reggie Jackson injury woes, and he can get back to the high level of basketball he’s so accustomed to playing at. After playing 82 games last season averaging 15.4 points & 4.2 assists on 42% FG shooting, he may be ready to do just that.
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