Someone on Reddit exposed Phil Jackson's 5 Decade Span of latent racist comments

[GilSho]

Now I know this sounds surprising given that PJax has this reputation for being a weed smoking, zen hippie, which I still think he kinda is, but the dude has gone on record in interviews and in his own books to say some pretty off-base stuff about black basketball players and culture. Here are some examples:

In his book Maverick
"White players are more often willing to run patterns and to work collectively."

"Because of the predominance of blacks in pro basketball, the sport is rapidly disintegrating into a one-on-one sport. There are only five or six NBA teams who play with more than a superficial degree of team unity."

On the Knicks: "The starting front court played white basketball while guards played black basketball."

"Black kids growing up want to be the superstar of their neighborhood. They want to be the toughest kids on the block, the richest or, once they get to the playground, the best one-on-one basketball players. White kids, on the other hand, usually are raised in a more homogeneous environment which provides other outlets for personal expression. They're also constantly
being taught the principle of subordinating their own personal glory for the good of the group."

Now to be fair to Phil, he wrote Maverick in 1976, a time when racial politics and views were very different from now. So surely, as the years passed and he grew as a human being, his views changed right?

October 1999: "I don't mean to say [that] as a snide remark toward a certain population in our society, but they have a limitation of their attention span, a lot of it probably due to too much rap music going in their ears and coming out their being."

October 2005 when asked about the dress code: "I think it's important that the players take their end of it, get out of the prison garb and the thuggery aspect of basketball that has come along with hip-hop music in the last seven or eight years."
Make of it what you will but I thought these comments and his history of making these comments is somewhat telling of how he sees things.

Come get your mans LWO.

 

[MikelArteta]

 

[delta]

reading this shyt like

 

[Mr. Jack Napier]

Knicks fired his ass too little, too late.

 

[Anerdyblackguy]

it's not a surprise really. Every CAC is a racist, live with that mentality and you won't be shocked by these statements.

nothing more I can say.

 

[Big Boss]

It's over

 

[The Fire]

fukk this cac and any player that supported him

 

[GOAT]

I've been shytting on Phil for years. About time other people got on the bandwagon. Dude has gotten away with saying flat out ridiculous things for years. People really think winning a championship gives you carte blanche to be a dikkhead.

Pop>>>> Phil

 

[Big Boss]

I'm shocked I thought this only happened in the NFL

 

[Kinguno]

Soon the light will reveal all the racists

 

[Houston911]

Phil is so overrated

Popovich>>>>>>>

 

[chowism]

Get mad at me brehs but he stated his opinion. He didn't say anything racist. Yall nikkas are so sensitive and soft. I'm not even a Phil supporter at all but this is fake outrage. He is giving his opinion on the difference between the players he has coached throughout the years.

 

[Anerdyblackguy]

Get mad at me brehs but he stated his opinion. He didn't say anything racist. Yall nikkas are so sensitive and soft. I'm not even a Phil supporter at all but this is fake outrage. He is giving his opinion on the difference between the players he has coached throughout the years.

You can't be serious right?

 

[inndaskKy]

Get mad at me brehs but he stated his opinion. He didn't say anything racist. Yall nikkas are so sensitive and soft. I'm not even a Phil supporter at all but this is fake outrage. He is giving his opinion on the difference between the players he has coached throughout the years.

CHOWism huh..

 

[Big Boss]

Get mad at me brehs but he stated his opinion. He didn't say anything racist. Yall nikkas are so sensitive and soft. I'm not even a Phil supporter at all but this is fake outrage. He is giving his opinion on the difference between the players he has coached throughout the years.