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🗓️ 25 April 2023
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11-time NBA champion coach Phil Jackson recently revealed that he no longer watches NBA games since the league went all-in on racial activism during the 2020 season. This upset many prominent names in sports media, but is Coach Jackson giving voice to how a lot of basketball lovers feel about the NBA these days? Let’s discuss.
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| 0:00.0 | Hall of Fame coach in 11 times champion Phil Jackson claims to have stopped supporting the NBA because it became too political |
| 0:05.7 | I put slogans on the back of jerseys and black lives matter on the floor. Same Phil Jackson won championship |
| 0:11.1 | Some of the greatest black athletes made millions on their backs and off their sweat every |
| 0:16.7 | Reaching so basketball Hall of Famer Phil Jackson who is a former player coach and executive |
| 0:22.8 | Responsible for coaching Michael Jordan Shaquille O'Neill, Kobe Bryant and Scotty Pippin is now saying he can no longer watch basketball |
| 0:29.7 | Because it's become too political. Let's talk about it |
| 0:47.7 | Before we get into this viral video from Phil Jackson, please like and subscribe |
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| 0:54.5 | So Phil Jackson who like I said is considered the greatest coach in basketball history was recently having a conversation |
| 0:59.7 | With Rick Rubin on his podcast where he talked about his inability to watch basketball anymore. Let's hear that clip |
| 1:05.6 | Do you do still watch a lot of basketball or no? |
| 1:10.2 | I don't tell me about that when and did you stop immediately from the time you stopped coaching? No, I didn't |
| 1:19.6 | I |
| 1:20.9 | watched some of the game evolve and |
| 1:24.4 | Decided and they went into the lockout year and they did something that was kind of wanky |
| 1:30.4 | They did a bubble down in Orlando and all the teams that could qualify went down there and stayed down there |
| 1:36.7 | No audience and they had things on their back like you know justice and |
| 1:42.4 | I mean a little funny thing like |
| 1:45.5 | you know justice just went to the basket and |
| 1:49.3 | Equal opportunity. You just knocked him down and |
| 1:53.0 | Somebody I have another name for Guy Liz Jersey in the back of a Jersey at some other slogan |
| 1:59.5 | Some of my grandkids thought that was pretty funny to |
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