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They say “never meet your heroes,” and while Phil Jackson was never a personal hero of mine, many did look up to Jackson, especially here in Chicago, where he led our beloved Bulls to six titles in the 1990s. During that time, when the United Center was brand spanking new and the near West side of the city not jam-packed with Starbucks and Soul Cycles, he also worked right across the street from the Henry Horner Homes — one of Chicago’s most notorious and poverty-stricken housing projects.
I believe at the time that the Bulls' offices- where they did a lot of work- was at the Berto Center in Deerfield. The United Center didn't exist for more than half of Jackson's Bulls' tenure.
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I remember going to a Bulls game with a lawyer I was clerking for at the time and him paying a gang member client to keep an eye on his car during the game — in the United Center parking lot.
Did not happen.
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Sounds like you’re doing a bang-up job with the grandkids there, Phil.
Gonna say Phil Jackson has never rooted for one of his (grand)kids to lose a sporting event they were taking part in.
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Imagine being so triggered by sentiments like “Black Lives Matter,” “Vote,” “Peace,” and “Equality”
Imagine being so triggered....Oh the irony, July. Imagine being so triggered about a blue checkmark or toilet paper that you would tweet the below less than 24 hours before you post this Jackson gibberish.
Phil Jackson is just another white guy who doesn’t want to have to think about hard things when watching sports.
Phil Jackson, like Doc Rivers, was paid to coach. It serves as a friendly reminder as to what people mean when they say any given sport is “too political,” because we certainly never hear that criticism when a giant American flag is hauled onto the field before NFL games while fighter jets roar overhead. No. We hear that sports are “too political” when leagues where marginalized groups, like Black men and women, try to use their platforms to affect change, like the WNBA and, to a lesser degree, the NBA did in 2020, the summer the Black Lives Matter protests were spilling out into the streets all over America.
Right. Players taking knee when that giant flag was hauled onto the field was never spoken about, and such actions definitely aren't political. Marginalized groups like African Americans who play in the NFL never use their platforms to affect change.
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