Lakers’ coach Phil Jackson claims that his star player Kobe Bryant is being picked on by NBA officials who called a flagrant foul 1 on Bryant Monday after he elbowed a Philadelphia player in the face three days earlier, even though officials did not call a foul on the play during the game. Bryant has served two one-game suspensions this season for hitting players in the face while shooting. Jackson is calling it a “witch hunt” and “a vendetta.”
This all makes me wonder who is picking on whom. The way Jackson is carrying on, you’d think that NBA officials were bullying Jackson’s kid on a playground. But this is the NBA, which has rules that govern players’ behavior on the court. Jackson and Bryant both know that. Jackson’s whining is just another form of bullying except he’s picking on the officials. Bryant has his own form of bullying; he just chooses to use his elbows to do it for him.
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