{"id":3807,"date":"2011-02-22T09:28:15","date_gmt":"2011-02-22T14:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=3807"},"modified":"2011-02-22T09:28:15","modified_gmt":"2011-02-22T14:28:15","slug":"mark-jackson%e2%80%99s-brother-%e2%80%98escalade%e2%80%99-dies-at-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=3807","title":{"rendered":"Mark Jackson\u2019s Brother \u2018Escalade\u2019 Dies At 35"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES \u2013 <strong>Troy Jackson<\/strong>, brother of <strong>Mark Jackson<\/strong>, is dead at 35. <strong>Troy Jackson<\/strong> died Saturday while visiting for NBA All Star Weekend in Los Angeles. <strong>Jackson\u2019s<\/strong> cause of death is still unknown; an autopsy has been scheduled.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Troy \u201cEscalade\u201d Jackson<\/strong> was a member of 2002\u2019s <em>\u201cAnd 1 Mixtape Tour\u201d<\/em>. The Queens native that stood at 6\u201910\u201d and 400 lbs had previously entertained fans on the streetball tour that brought <strong>Jackson<\/strong> across the country. He later joined the Harlem Globetrotters.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jackson<\/strong> had lost his older brother to AIDS nearly twenty years earlier; he drew attention to the fight against AIDS with a 2005 Sports Illustrated Cover.<\/p>\n<p>His nephew, <strong>Mark Jackson Jr<\/strong>, a walk-on with the Cardinals, tweeted the following message this weekend. \u201c2day we lost a great man of God in my Uncle @Escalade53 but it consoles my heart to know that he is in a better place WE WILL ALL MISS YOU!\u201d <strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Shaquille O\u2019Neal<\/strong> also tweeted \u201cMy heart goes out to <strong>Mark Jackson<\/strong> and his family who lost his brother last night, <strong>Escalade<\/strong>. We lost a great person love u <strong>Escalade<\/strong>. I\u2019m sad.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES \u2013 Troy Jackson, brother of Mark Jackson, is dead at 35. Troy Jackson died Saturday while visiting for NBA All Star Weekend in Los Angeles. Jackson\u2019s cause of death is still unknown; an autopsy has been scheduled. Troy \u201cEscalade\u201d Jackson was a member of 2002\u2019s \u201cAnd 1 Mixtape Tour\u201d. The Queens native that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}