Phil Jackson takes shots at Sterling

[westkoast]

SOURCE: http://thebiglead.com/index.php/2010/01/16/jackson-pokes-sterling-lakers-destroy-clippers/

Phil Jackson took some shots at Clippers? owner Donald Sterling last night before the Lakers-Clippers game. Jackson was asked about the Clippers? curse and said he didn?t believe in curses, but he does believe in something even more realistic.

?I do think there is karma in effect ultimately.?

?I can?t claim anybody else?s karma. That?s their own making, whatever it is.

?If you do a good mitzvah [a Jewish term for an act of kindness], maybe you can eliminate some of those things. You don?t think Sterling?s done enough mitzvahs to eliminate some of those??

Jackson also added a sarcastic, ?I think he?s well-liked,? at the end of the interview. ESPN thinks Jackson might have been referring to the $2.73 million Sterling paid in a government settlement for refusing to rent apartments to Latinos, blacks and families with children. I guess karma would come into play there. If you believe in that kind of voodoo.

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My Name is Earl Jackson.

[WayOutWest]

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=hill/110905&sportCat=nba

I'm amazed that I've never head about Sterling and racism/discrimination.  I heard plenty about Jerry Buss's drunk driving issue and hundreds of less offensive transgressions from hundreds of other people. 

Didn't realize I was giving money to an a-hole like Sterling, I could of at least used Sterling's racism to get a couple more free tickets from my sales rep. 

[westkoast]

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=hill/110905&sportCat=nba

I'm amazed that I've never head about Sterling and racism/discrimination.  I heard plenty about Jerry Buss's drunk driving issue and hundreds of less offensive transgressions from hundreds of other people. 

Didn't realize I was giving money to an a-hole like Sterling, I could of at least used Sterling's racism to get a couple more free tickets from my sales rep. 

Same here.  I am curious why, even after the rulling, the first place I hear about it is ESPN.  Not the LA Times, not in a local write up, not on local talk radio, nothing.   I care more about Sterling denying to rent places to minorities and families more than I do Gilbert Arenas pulling a gun out on some d-list player we traded a few years back.

[jn]

I too am surprised you guys didn't hear about this.   I swear I read a blurb about it in the Mpls paper.

Other sports figures figures (Marge Schott, Jimmy the Greek, Al Campanis) have been ruined for saying racist or ignorant things but Sterling actually practices discrimination and still he stays on.

[WayOutWest]

I too am surprised you guys didn't hear about this.   I swear I read a blurb about it in the Mpls paper.

Other sports figures figures (Marge Schott, Jimmy the Greek, Al Campanis) have been ruined for saying racist or ignorant things but Sterling actually practices discrimination and still he stays on.

One thing I do remember is when Elgin Baylor got fired he did make negative references to Sterling that had "racial" overtones.