Former Knicks player and executive Phil Jackson tried to clarify his comments about the NBA becoming too “political,” claiming they were a joke.
and he said that he hasn’t followed the NBA — or watched games — since 2020, when the league played in its COVID-19 bubble in Orlando and allowed athletes to replace their jersey names with social justice messages.“They went into the lockout year and they did something that was kind of wanky, they did a bubble down in Orlando, and all the teams that could qualify went down there and stayed down there,” Jackson said on the Rubin podcast. “And they had things on their back like, ‘Justice.
Jackson was then asked a follow-up question about what he didn’t like about that, and he said that the league was “trying to cater to an audience or trying to bring a certain audience into play, and they didn’t know that it was turning other people off.”One of the Los Angeles Lakers jerseys in 2020 includes a social justice message ahead of their game against the Trail Blazers.
“The same Phil Jackson that won championships with some of the greatest black athletes in the history of the game — Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, Shaquille O’Neal, Kobe Bryant. Made millions on their backs and off their sweat equity. “You’re sitting there watching games with your grandkids and y’all think it’s funny when justice passes the ball to equal opportunity?” Rose continued. “When somebody shows you who you are, believe them, so stop watching — forever.”
Jackson won 11 NBA championships as a head coach and later served as the Knicks’ president before the team fired him in 2017.
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