There are few things in life scarier than getting an unexpected call from the FBI. It’s a moment Memphis Grizzlies star Jaren Jackson Jr. experienced when he was younger.
During an episode of The Old Man and The Three podcast, Jackson revealed that he had run-ins with the FBI before joining the NBA. At first, Jackson thought his father was playing a prank on him.
“I wasn’t raided by the FBI,” Jackson said. “It’s not a hoax, I just downloaded stuff… They called my dad, they called him a little bit and I don’t think he knew who it was, so he answered three days later… I don’t think he told me the full consequences because he just told me to stop. I stopped because I was freaked out.”
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The show that particularly got Jackson into trouble with the FBI was season 2 of The Boondocks. Once he was caught downloading that show, his entire download category was revealed.
“It was probably like Season 2 of The Boondocks, I had the whole series,” Jackson said. “They can tag your files, so they tagged them and tracked the files on my computer. Once they had them, they could see everything I had, where it was. They could see every season of everything.”
While Jaren Jackson Jr. can laugh about the experience today, it has become a defining memory that terrified him when he was younger.
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