Phil Jackson Stands Up For Kobe...How Much Will He Be Fined?

[Now_Im_Not_Banned]

Interview With Phil Jackson

My only question walking out of practice Tuesday was $25,000 or $50,000. It’s hard to imagine how Phil Jackson doesn’t get fined for painting the picture of a league that has a ``vendetta’’ against Kobe Bryant and twice using the term ``witch hunt.’’

Jackson certainly had his feelings on the NBA’s decision to assess Bryant a flagrant foul penalty 1 for catching Philadelphia’s Kyle Korver in the face with an elbow in Friday’s game. If you want to play David Stern, here are Jackson’s unedited comments:

Q: Were you happy about the league just giving Kobe a flagrant 1?

Jackson: It shouldn’t have even been a flagrant 1. That’s crazy. That’s a vendetta. They have a witch hunt going on. That’s nuts. A guy’s riding somebody. Everybody does that in this league. It’s just becoming a witch hunt now.

Q: Do you have any idea why?

Jackson: I think that obviously once something happens like that and a lot of videotape starts floating around and people are making cuts of things that are happening, there’s a lot of focus on him.

Q: Have you guys sent in tape to the league of him doing the arm motion on his shot?

Jackson: Not that I know of, unless Mitch (Kupchak) has asked our video guy to do that. We’re just collecting things right now.

Q: Is it worrisome when these incidents involving Kobe have been no call, loose ball foul and no call on the court and you end up with two one-game suspensions and a flagrant foul?

Jackson: It is an after the fact type of thing. That is bothersome. They have (the) advantage of looking at videotape. We wish that they would correct some of the mistakes they make in ballgames the same way. There’s a couple games that probably could be swung, won or lost, by some of the calls if they’d correct them after the fact. But you can’t do that in the game.

Q: Stu Jackson said after the second suspension that he didn’t need to consult with the referees because he could watch the video replay. Do you think they should talk to the actual referees before they do something?

Jackson: You’d think that would happen, just off-hand. Even the details of the (Marko) Jaric foul, from what I understand, Jaric got on his arm before he got to the ball. So the shot’s coming, he hits his arm. Kobe’s reacting to his hand. The whole play ensues.

If a referee sees that, he might have called the first foul and not the second. A lot of referees will let a touch of the arm go if a guy pulls his hand back when his shooting motion begins. I mean, that’s how our game’s become.

In those situations, the referee might have said, `Hey, he hit his arm first and Kobe reacted to that first arm touch and tried to draw the foul. But it doesn’t look like they’re making that accommodation at all.




$50k? Based on what we've seen from the league, I'd say it's more like $50 mill...Plus a $2 million fine and 5 game suspension for Kobe.

[GangstaBoogy]

If they want to keep suspending Kobe for silly fouls - then fine. But I want consistency. Suspend Lebron every time he bulldozes over a player. Suspend Bruce Bowen every time he slips his foot under a player when they pull up for a jumper. Suspend Raja Bell every time he slaps the hell out of someone when they drive in the paint for a layup. That should bring some excitement back to the NBA 

[Halu Sination]

If they want to keep suspending Kobe for silly fouls - then fine. But I want consistency. Suspend Lebron every time he bulldozes over a player. Suspend Bruce Bowen every time he slips his foot under a player when they pull up for a jumper. Suspend Raja Bell every time he slaps the hell out of someone when they drive in the paint for a layup. That should bring some excitement back to the NBA 

exactly wut im thinking. fuck this bullshit.

[rik]

How much will they fine him? Shit I'll be surprised if Phil is still in the league tomorrow morning.

[d-nice]

They will probably suspend him for saying that.  NBA has really been on some bullshit this year.

["THE" MoSav]

the NBA is def picking on Kobe

[Now_Im_Not_Banned]

If they want to keep suspending Kobe for silly fouls - then fine. But I want consistency. Suspend Lebron every time he bulldozes over a player. Suspend Bruce Bowen every time he slips his foot under a player when they pull up for a jumper. Suspend Raja Bell every time he slaps the hell out of someone when they drive in the paint for a layup. That should bring some excitement back to the NBA 

Or every time Kobe gets bashed in the head with no call, which happens pretty much every game...Stu Jackson and David Stern are disgusting people. I wouldn't mind if their private jets collided.

[Bay Area Jat]

good to see even the NBA does not condone snitching

[Now_Im_Not_Banned]

good to see even the NBA does not condone snitching

Nobody snitched, get that hate out ya system...

[rik]

good to see even the NBA does not condone snitching

You're a fuckin' hatin ass moron.

[Bay Area Jat]

BY MICHAEL McAULIFF
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Wednesday, September 29th, 2004

Hours after Kobe Bryant was accused of rape, he reportedly told cops that his Los Angeles Lakers teammate Shaquille O'Neal had paid women up to $1 million to keep "situations like this" quiet.
Bryant's Shaq attack came July 2, 2003, in a conversation he had with Colorado cops soon after a 19-year-old hotel worker accused the star guard of assaulting her, the Los Angeles Times reported last night.

"Bryant made a comment to us about what another teammate does in situations like these," Eagle, Colo., Detective Doug Winters wrote in a police report obtained by the paper.

"Bryant stated he should have done what Shaq does. Bryant stated that Shaq would pay his women not to say anything. He stated Shaq has paid up to a million dollars already for situations like this."

Bryant, 26, also insisted he hadn't thought of a payoff because he treats women much better than his gargantuan teammate.

"He stated he, Bryant, treats a woman with respect, therefore they shouldn't say anything," Winters said.

Shaq found out about the dis last September when investigators for Eagle County prosecutors made an unsuccessful attempt to quiz him about the charge two weeks before the Lakers opened their training camp in Hawaii, the Times said.

Perry Rogers, O'Neal's agent, told the paper that Kobe's allegations against the big man were false and "undeserving of a response."

O'Neal, a 32-year-old All-Star center, is married with three children and has a fourth by an ex-girlfriend. He has never been accused of sexual impropriety.

A 23-year-old woman who worked at Walt Disney World in Orlando accused him of grabbing her neck in 1997, and he was charged with misdemeanor battery, but the case was dismissed in 2000.

Sports Illustrated had already reported the salacious details of Bryant's statement to police from a transcript of their conversation, including comments that other NBA players paid off women.

But the bombshell accusation against O'Neal came after the detectives turned off their tape recorder, and had been sealed during a pretrial hearing before the accuser backed out of the case and the charges were dropped.

The pair often butted egos in their years together on the Lakers, even as they won three championships.

O'Neal's agent said he didn't know whether O'Neal confronted Bryant over the comments last season, but said the remarks didn't stop Shaq from doing his job.

"It didn't have any impact on the relationship," Rogers told the Times, because "Shaquille had a very professional approach to his career there and because he has had an understanding of Kobe, Kobe's interests and Kobe's priorities. Kobe has historically been shown to be interested in one person and one person alone."

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[Bay Area Jat]

yea u guys are right he's not a snitch

[rik]

I just think it's funny how in every thread about Kobe or the Lakers you go in them a type "Kobe's a snitch" the fuck does that have to do with anything? We get it dog you think Kobe is a snitch and you don't like him. You ain't shit but a hater. A fuckin' suburban kid who is fascinated with the "snitchin" fad.

[Bay Area Jat]

so u agree that kobe is a snitch?

[rik]