Hall of Fame coach Phil Jackson no longer watches the NBA — because it’s become too “political,” he recently admitted.
the 77-year-old Zen Master claimed he hasn’t followed the NBA since early in the pandemic in 2020 — when postseason games were played in the “bubble” in Orlando, and players were allowed to wear woke messages on the back of their jerseys such as “Justice,” and “Black Lives Matter.”
“I am not enjoying the game,” said Jackson, who won 11 titles coaching the Chicago Bulls and Los Angeles Lakers.“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,” he added during his April 5 appearance on the podcast.
“And they had things on their back like, ‘Justice.’ They made a funny thing like, ‘Justice just went to the basket and Equal Opportunity just knocked him down.’ … My grandkids thought that was pretty funny to play up those names. …I couldn’t watch that.”“The Lakers won that year,” he recalled. “They even had slogans on the floor and the baseline. It was trying to cater to an audience or trying to bring a certain audience to the game, and they didn’t know it was turning other people off. People want to see sports as non-political.
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