Phil Jackson clarifies comments regarding NBA becoming too political: ‘I don’t think people got the humor’

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Legendary NBA coach Phil Jackson found himself the topic of controversy last month after saying he was not watching a lot of basketball due to the game becoming too political. 

Jackson made the comments on an episode of the "Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin" podcast and poked fun at NBA’s players wearing social justice messages on the back of their jerseys during the NBA’s Bubble in Orlando, FL. 

Phil Jackson of the New York Knicks looks on during the NBA Draft Combine Day 2 at the Quest Multisport Center on May 12, 2017 in Chicago, Illinois. (Jeff Haynes/NBAE via Getty Images)

He said the NBA was "catering" to a certain audience, which turned off fans who wanted to keep politics out of sports. 

Jackson was asked about his comments on the latest episode of Stacey King’s Gimme the Hot Sauce, an Audacy podcast, saying that critics had failed to understand the humor behind them. 

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"I don’t think people got the humor. . . . The names are on the back of the players that were in the bubble because if you apply them to defending and challenging and going to the hoop, and you use those monikers that were on the names, it had a funny aspect to it," Jackson said. "That’s just what I was bringing up to the kids. Visually, this is kind of humorous."

"I had nothing against BLM or the cause that was behind it. The humorous nature of going completely woke by the NBA really was like, it’s pretty hard to watch."

In his initial comments regarding the Orlando bubble, Jackson said he cracked jokes about the social justice messages on the jerseys, which