Legendary NBA Coach Phil Jackson criticized the League for programming Catholic vacation games in a rare publication on social networks on Sunday.
Jackson, a 11 -time NBA champion as a coach and twice champion as a player, recorded the criticism on Easter Sunday, when the league had four games in the first round of the NBA playoffs Programmed.
Phil Jackson of the New York Knicks Duration The NBA Draft Combine Day 2 at the Quest Multisport Center on May 12, 2017 in Chicago. (Jeff Haynes/NBAE through Getty Images)
“Once again, the NBA proves faith playing multiple games at Christmas and Easter … sacred days,” said the publication in X.
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The post was Jackson’s first in approximately one year, but his criticism of the NBA is not unique.
In 2023, Jackson arrived at the headlines when he said he stopped seeing the NBA after the COVID-19 Pandemia because the league had become too political.
“They entered the year of blocking, and did something that was a Wonky boy. They made a bubble in Orlando, and all the teams they described were there, and they stayed there,” Heids said at the time of “Tetagramton Maton.
The Golden State Warriors striker, Drayond, greets fans after winning game 1 of the First Round Playoff series against Rockets in Houston, on Sunday, April 20, 2025. (Photo AP/Ashley Landis)
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“And they had things in the back like” Justice. “I did a small fun thing,” Justice gets used to the basket and equal opportunities knocked him down. “… my grandchildren thought it was quite fun to play those names.”
Jackson referred to the NBA allowing players to wear social justice messages on the back of their t -shirts last the bubble in Orlando. He added at that time that he felt that the League was attending to a “a certain audience.”
“They didn’t know that I was turning off other people. People because seeing sports as non -politicians.”
The former Los Angeles coach, Phil Jackson, a press conference at the Lakers training center on May 11, 2011, in the second, California. (Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)
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The NBA and the NFL continue to compete for the audience on Christmas Day. This year, the NFL He announced that three games on vacation will be played after the success of the double header last season in Netflix.
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