Legendary Nba Coach Phil Jackson criticized the League to plan matches on Catholic holidays in a rare post on social networks on Sunday.
Jackson, a champion of 11 times the NBA as a coach and double champion as a player, posted criticism on Easter Sunday, when the League had four games in the first round of the NBA playoffs program.
Phil Jackson of the New York Knicks at the NBA Draft combines Day 2 at the Quest Multisport Center on May 12, 2017, in Chicago. (Jeff Haynes / NBAE via Getty Images)
“Once again, the NBA tests the faith by playing several games at Christmas and Easter … Sacred Days”, the post on X Read.
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The position was Jackson’s first in more than a year, but his NBA review is not unique.
In 2023, Jackson made the headlines when he said that he had stopped watching the NBA after COVID 19 Pandemic because the league had become too political.
“They entered the year of lockout, and they did something that was a little wobbly. They made a bubble in Orlando, and all the teams that could qualify went there and stayed there,” he said at the time during an appearance on the Podcast “Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin”.
The Golden State Warriors Draymond Green striker welcomes fans after winning match 1 in the first -round eliminatory series against Rockets in Houston, Sunday, April 20, 2025. (AP photo / Ashley Landis)
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“And they had things on my back like” justice “. I did a little funny like, ‘Justice just went to the basket and equal opportunities made it fall.
Jackson referred to the NBA allowing players to carry messages of social justice on the back of their jerseys during the bubble in Orlando. He added at the time when he thought that the league addressed a “certain audience”.
“They did not know that it turned off other people. People want to see sport as non -political.”
Former coach of Los Angeles Phil Jackson at a press conference at the Lakers Training Center on May 11, 2011 in El Segundo, California. (Images Kevork Djansezian / Getty)
The NBA and the NFL continue to compete for the viewer on Christmas Day. This year, the Nfl announced that three games will be played during the holidays after the success of last season last season on Netflix.
