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MVP of the '93 McDonald's All American game, a sophomore who led the North Carolina Tar Heels to the '95 Final Four, the third overall pick in the '95 draft, an NBA '96 All-Rookie First Team selection. Jerry Stackhouse did all of that, then covered SLAM 49 in in March of '01. It nearly fell apart anyway.
So much promise — shown in high school, in college, in the first stretch of his pro career — came close to going unspent.
Philly thought it had landed a cornerstone; Stack lasted two-plus seasons there. Winging it is his own phrase for that stretch, a strong-willed young kid who hadn't accepted how much he still had to learn. A bad reputation followed him to Detroit. Plenty of people figured the Pistons were inheriting a cocky two-guard who'd clash with Grant Hill. The reputation got shook instead, then elbowed and dunked on. A then-career-best 23 points per game came in his first Motor City season, with Hill beside him and the postseason at the end of it. When Hill dipped that summer, a superstar-sized gap opened and Stackhouse stepped into it gladly.
Year two with Detroit turned out to be his best as a pro: top of the League in total points scored, second in points per game at 29.8, plus an All-Star nod. Proof, in public, that he'd grown up. On the issue 49 cover he looks like a primal scream you can hear through the paper — "STACK WON'T QUIT."
And he never did. That shaky start gave way to 18 total seasons as a player and 11 seasons (and counting) as a coach, with the foundation laid back in Detroit.
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