It has been a while since we heard from former San Antonio Spurs forward Stephen Jackson since he was waived by the team before the playoffs, however, in this interview with ESPN's "Highly Questionable," Jackson opens up on many topics including his former teammate Tim Duncan and the infamous "Malice at the Palace."

Jackson reveals how tough life was growing up in Port Arthur, TX, how loyalty is key in his life, losing his brother, an much more including some interesting tales of how foreign players acted in the showers when he was with the Warriors.

Check out this signature-Jackson interview that may make Spurs fans miss "Captain Jack."

During the 2013 NBA Finals, Philip Rossman-Reich of Orlando Magic Daily will be contributing to Project Spurs, covering the San Antonio Spurs' march to title No. 5.

When Manu Ginobili first received the ball in the San Antonio Spurs’ Game Three victory over the Heat, he gave a quick pump fake that got Dwyane Wade off his feet and he aggressively attacked the basket, finishing with a two-handed jam. Later on in the game, Ginobili was on the fast break and received a nice helper from Kawhi Leonard to secure two more points.

Those scores are nice and have to be part of Ginobili’s arsenal. The question for San Antonio as this series – and the next few seasons – move forward is whether these kind of plays are going to be the norm for Ginobili’s contributions. Because when it comes to providing jump shooting or floor spacing of any kind, Ginobili simply is not providing much.

During the 2013 NBA Finals, John Karalis of Red's Army will be contributing to Project Spurs, covering the San Antonio Spurs' march to title No. 5.

The San Antonio Spurs first possession wasn't anything groundbreaking. Tony Parker received a screen from Tim Duncan at the top of the arc and Miami trapped Parker aggressively. Duncan slipped into the lane and Parker fed him the pass.

Chris Bosh, defending Tiago Splitter on the play, dropped down for a beat to help on Duncan. Udonis Haslem quickly scampered from the top of the key, where he and Mario Chalmers corralled Parker, to the left block. Duncan took three confident dribbles before unfurling a right-handed hook into the net.

There was still a lot of basketball to play -- 47 minutes and 40 seconds, actually. But the Spurs' onslaught was just getting started.

AT&T Center – Before Game 3 of the NBA Final between the San Antonio Spurs and Miami Heat, Spurs guard Tony Parker delivered a message to his sharp-shooting teammate Gary Neal: Be Ready.

“I told him if they keep trapping me you’re going to have the ball and you’re going to be able to get shots,” Parker informed Neal before the game. “I said we need a big game from you.”

How did Neal respond when the Heat trapped Parker Tuesday? Parker’s response says it all.

“He was unbelievable,” said Parker of Neal afterward. Neal finished the game as the Spurs’ second leading scorer with 24 points on 9-of-17 shooting, where he went 6-of-10 from 3-point range.

“After the game he looked at me and said ‘you called it.’ So I was very happy for him,” said Parker of Neal.

AT&T CENTER -- Once again in the friendly confines of the AT&T Center, San Antonio Spurs guards Danny Green and Gary Neal were right at home in their comfort zones. A thrice-cut journeyman and an undrafted frr agent, Green and Neal are fitting locker room neighbors. Together, they occupy the corner of the room closest to the entrance, out of the way of everyone else.

On most nights during the regular season they side, side-by-side, swapping stories while the media scrums circle around their more heralded players.  Jokes, life lessons, or just a moment from a recent game, the topics vary on any given night. Next year, provided Neal--a free agent--remains with the Spurs, they will have a story to trump any other tale they've shared before. Game 3 of the NBA Finals, one will remind the other, was the night that their little corner became the center of the basketball universe. It was the night two previously unknown players outscored the entire Miami Heat starting lineup, 51-43.

Each has their own humble basketball origins, cast aside by the NBA, only to be unearthed by the Spurs Gregg Popovich and R.C. Buford as hidden gems.

The San Antonio Spurs (13-3) will look to bounce back from a crushing 103-84 loss to the Miami Heat (13-5) in Miami in the 2013 NBA Finals in Game 3 tonight as the scene now shifts to San Antonio.

Though the Spurs did split the first two games in Miami winning Game 1, Game 2 was simply a debacle in the second half. Danny Green finished with 17 points and shot a perfect 6-6 from the floor and 5-5 from three-point distance to lead San Antonio in the defeat. Kawhi Leonard pulled down a game-high 14 rebounds while LeBron James led the Heat with 17 points, 8 rebounds, 7 assists, 3 steals and 3 blocks.

Miami got hot in the second quarter, shooting 54.5 percent from the field as they took a five-point, 50-45, lead into the break. The game was tied at 58 apiece with 5:17 left in the third, but the Heat went on a 17-7 run to end the quarter and gave the Heat a 10-point, 75-65, lead heading into the final frame. Miami opened the fourth quarter with a 19-2 run to push their lead to 27, 94-67, and got the easy win.

And as San Antonio looks to take a 2-1 lead in the Finals tonight at the AT&T Center, here are five things to watch for during tonight's contest:

• The Spurs own a 9-2 (.818) overall home record in the NBA Finals.

• The Spurs are 5-0 in the postseason when leading after the first quarter at home.

SAN ANTONIO - Miami Heat's Udonis Haslem has had to defend the likes of Roy Hibbert, and Joakim Noah during Miami's postseason run to the NBA Finals and now he finds himself guarding perhaps the greatest big man of this era in the NBA - San Antonio Spurs' Tim Duncan.

Duncan has been having a solid postseason averaging 17.4 points, 1.7 blocks, 2.2 assists, 9.6 rebounds in 34 minutes per game in the playoffs and heading into the series against San Antonio, Haslem did some scouting on Duncan and discovered that the "Big Fundamental" has no weaknesses.

"I look at the film and I try to find ways to guard him and I really didn't find any weaknesses," said Haslem during the Miami shoot around today. "Once he settles down in that block, you really can't get him out of there. You got to just try to meet him early, and compete and keep him out of those sweet spots and contest everything."

And it didn't stop there.