{"id":1930948,"date":"2023-05-15T01:12:50","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T05:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/phil-jackson-walks-back-claims-that-nba-has-become-too-political\/"},"modified":"2023-05-15T01:14:39","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T05:14:39","slug":"phil-jackson-walks-back-claims-that-nba-has-become-too-political","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/phil-jackson-walks-back-claims-that-nba-has-become-too-political\/","title":{"rendered":"Phil Jackson retracts statement about NBA being &#8220;too political.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fphil-jackson-walks-back-claims-that-nba-has-become-too-political%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1930948&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>NBA Hall of Fame Coach Phil Jackson Clarifies Controversial Comments<\/h2>\n<p>NBA Hall of Fame head coach Phil Jackson recently made headlines for his comments about the league being too political. However, he is now clarifying that his remarks were meant to be humorous and not a criticism of the political causes that the league was pushing during the bubble year.<\/p>\n<h3>What Did Phil Jackson Say?<\/h3>\n<p>At the end of April, Jackson criticized the league for its &#8220;wanky&#8221; bubble year during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fire-fauci-new-study-finds-closing-schools-in-response-to-covid-19-delayed-herd-immunity-and-will-increase-overall-deaths\/\" title=\"FIRE FAUCI: New Study Finds Closing Schools In Response to COVID-19 Delayed Herd Immunity and Will Increase Overall Deaths\">coronavirus pandemic<\/a> and said that its &#8220;catering&#8221; to the far left was turning off too many fans. He also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-call-double-standard-on-greenes-committee-removals-point-to-omar-remarks\/\" title=\"Republicans Call Double Standard on Greene\u2019s Committee Removals, Point to Omar Remarks\">made comments<\/a> about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/phil-jackson-walks-back-claims-that-nba-has-become-too-political\/\" title=\"Phil Jackson retracts statement about NBA being \"too political.\"\">social justice words<\/a> on players&#8217; backs during that season, which he found funny and would narrate for his grandkids.<\/p>\n<p>After receiving criticism for his remarks, Jackson is now trying to re-explain what he meant. He claims that he meant the remark to relay how &#8220;humorous&#8221; the situation was during the bubble year and that he had nothing against BLM or the cause that was behind it.<\/p>\n<h3>What Does Phil Jackson Think About Politics in Sports?<\/h3>\n<p>While Jackson is not against political causes, he believes that sports should remain non-political. He added that players can have their own political beliefs, but it should not be brought into the game.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Phil Jackson clarified his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-move-to-force-conspiracy-theorist-marjorie-taylor-greene-off-her-committee-assignments-report\/\" title=\"Democrats Move To Force Conspiracy Theorist Marjorie Taylor Greene Off Her Committee Assignments: Report\">controversial comments<\/a> about the NBA being too political.<\/li>\n<li>He claims that his remarks were meant to be humorous and not a criticism of the political causes that the league was pushing during the bubble year.<\/li>\n<li>Jackson believes that sports should remain non-political.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Follow Warner Todd Huston on Facebook at: <strong>facebook.com\/Warner.Todd.Huston<\/strong>, or Truth Social <strong>@WarnerToddHuston<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBA Hall of Fame head coach Phil Jackson is trying to carefully walk back his recent claim that the NBA has gotten too political and is now saying that he doesn\u2019t think people understood the \u201chumor\u201d in his comments. At the end of April, Jackson chided the league for its \u201cwanky\u201d bubble year during the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1930949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[10023,7873,9716,3753,18217,6317,6536],"class_list":["post-1930948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-jackson","tag-nba","tag-phil","tag-political","tag-retracts","tag-statement","tag-too"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1930948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1930949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1930948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1930948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1930948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}