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Phil Jackson on NBA utilizing leftist slogans in Orlando bubble: “I could not watch that”

By / April 22, 2023

The NBA has been taking a stance on some political points, particularly through the Orlando bubble in 2020.

It went so far as gamers kneeling through the nationwide anthem of the US and changing their names on jerseys with leftist slogans.

Phil Jackson, who gained six NBA championships as a coach and one title as a participant, doesn’t just like the league bringing politics to the sport.

He reveals that he couldn’t watch the video games when there was political messaging all over the place.

By way of Nicole Ganglani of Basketball Network:

” … All of the groups that would qualify went down there and stayed down there, no viewers, and so they had issues on their again like ‘Justice’ and a humorous factor occurred like ‘Justice went to the basket and Equal Alternative knocked him down’… A few of my grandkids thought it was fairly humorous to play up these names; I couldn’t watch that,” Phil mentioned.

“The Lakers gained that 12 months,” Jackson continued. “They even had slogans on the ground and the baseline. It was attempting to cater to an viewers or attempting to carry a sure viewers to the sport, and so they didn’t realize it was turning different individuals off. Folks need to see sports activities as non-political. Politics stays out of the sport; it doesn’t have to be there.”

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