SAN ANTONIO – It was all Stephen Jackson wanted to hear during the din of last night’s championship celebration. After Jackson had broken the Nets’ backs with three 3-pointers during their crushing 19-0 fourth-quarter run, Byron Scott came up to Jackson and delivered the words.

Scott had run Jackson out of town, said he wasn’t good enough to be in their rotation two years ago.

“Byron told me congratulations and it was good to hear that from him,” Jackson said. “I’m happy they made it here. He told me congratulations and I appreciate it. It showed a lot. It shows his character.”

Starting shooting guard for a championship team, Jackson showed his charActer, too, in the fourth quarter. He had shot just 33 percent in the first five games. He was benched in the opening two minutes in last night’s Game 6 after throwing the ball into the first row. Then he got raging hot just when the Spurs were on the verge of having to play a Game 7.

“I definitely had to keep shooting,” said Jackson, who finished with 17 points. “They told me they were going to double Tim [Duncan] in the fourth. They told me to keep shooting with confidence, and that’s what I did.”

Duncan couldn’t do it alone and the Spurs wouldn’t have been spraying champagne all over their locker room if they didn’t get the secondary scorer to Duncan last night.

The Spurs will hold their championship parade tomorrow on San Antonio’s famed Riverwalk, but nothing could beat last night’s wild lockerroom celebration.

There was Tony Parker singing French songs with the French media; Parker’s girlfriend Lo Lo brandishing a Wheaties box with the 2003 Spurs championship already being commemorated; assistant coach P.J. Carlesimo’s blue shirt and khaki pants soaking wet from the bubbly.

And, finally, there was Gregg Popovich, normally media shy, not wanting to leave the podium, saying he’d answer questions for two hours.