Born and bred in Brooklyn as the quintessential New York point guard, Mark Jackson understood perfectly what he was getting himself into when the Knicks brought him home in a trade with Toronto in February. He heard the cheers on his way from Bishop Loughlin to St. John's to rookie success with the Knicks, and he heard the catcalls near the end of his five-year tenure at Madison Square Garden before his banishment to the Los Angeles Clippers. Teaming later with Reggie Miller in Indiana, he knew life as public enemy No. 1A.

