
Add to Favorites \| Editor's Note			Friday 30th of March 2007 02:35:35 AM

NBA penalizes US$50000 each upon Lakers and Jackson

by Mayank Trikha - March 16, 2007 - 0 comments

Phil Jackson and the Los Angeles Lakers have been fined $50,000 U.S. each by the NBA on Thursday after which the coach said the league was conducting a “ witch-hunt” against Kobe Bryant.

Reply

Your name: *

E-mail: *

The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.

Homepage:

Subject: *

Comment: *

[quote=Mayank Trikha]<div class="flexinode-body flexinode-1"><div class="flexinode-textarea-1"><div class="form-item">
 <p>Phil Jackson and the Los Angeles Lakers have been fined $50,000 U.S. each by the NBA on Thursday after which the coach said the league was conducting a “ witch-hunt” against Kobe Bryant.</p>
</div>
</div><div class="flexinode-image-3"><div class="form-item">
 <label>Picture: </label>
 <img alt="NBA penalizes US$50000 each upon Lakers and Jackson" src="http://www.themoneytimes.com/filess/" /><br /><a href="http://www.themoneytimes.com/filess/phil.jpg">Get original file (8KB)</a>
</div>
</div><div class="flexinode-textarea-2"><div class="form-item">
 <label>Full Article: </label>
 <p>Bryant was recently suspended for two one-game suspensions this season for hitting the players in their face after taking a shot. The league viewed Bryant doing a foul in such a bizarre fashion when he hit Philadelphia’s player Kyle Korver with his elbow, last week.</p>
<p>NBA Executive Vice President Stu Jackson told the media that, “the fine was for Jackson’s public criticisms of the NBA”.</p>
<p>According to the Mitch Kupchak, the general manager of the Lakers, “ We have made are opinion clear and have been penalized by the league for doing so. We have nothing more to say on this issue”.</p>
<p>During the suspension of Bryant from a game in New York, Jackson opposed the suspension, but the officials said Bryant actions as “unnatural basketballs actions” adding that if he continues to cut the fool on the court, he can expect more severe punishment.</p>
<p>At that time coach Phil Jackson indulged in a heated argument with the officials saying its down right “wrong”.</p>
<p>He said,” I think I am going to put about 50 clips of Kobe’s shooting his shot and his arms going out like that so the judger of this deed of Kobe’s sees that he does this a lot”. </p>
<p>He further added, “ Its not an un-natural Basketball motion”.</p>
<p>Jackson said that, Bryant was simply using his normal follow through in an attempt to draw a foul or create space for his shot.</p>
<p>Regarding the suspension Bryant made a remark that, “ Suspension wont change his shooting style”.</p>
<p>Bryant said, “ You have to be careful about how you play the game. Go out there, play hard and do the best you can. Hopefully you don’t get suspended or anything like that”.</p>
<p>When asked that officials are being unfair to him and over reacting, Kobe said, “I don’t really want to get into too much. You can’t say anything about it without saying something inflammatory. I would rather leave it alone and focus on the game”.</p>
</div>
</div></div>[/quote]

Allowed HTML tags: <a> <em> <strong> <cite> <code> <ul> <ol> <li> <dl> <dt> <dd>
Lines and paragraphs break automatically.
You may quote other posts using [quote] tags.

More information about formatting options

Captcha Validation: *

Please type in the letters/numbers that are shown in the image above.

Navigation

Subscribe

NBA penalizes US$50000 each upon Lakers and Jackson

Reply

Active forum topics

Poll

Health Updates from TheMedGuru