"There's a certain gamesmanship that goes on that obviously he feels cheapens the game. It never was explained to us until suddenly it came down this last week that arbitrarily they were going to do this. I missed the coaches' meetings last September, so maybe they explained it in the coaches' meetings last year, because they said there were a couple incidences last year where I think it was [ Stan] Van Gundy and [Rick] Adelman were fined during the playoffs for statements that led to ‘manipulating' the press. I don't know how you guys could be so naive being members of … whatever estate you're members of."
"It's just a natural evolution of the game, and it's a natural evolution of who gets the ball the most and they're going to end up a lot of times at the foul line. Unfortunately it didn't work for Kobe [Bryant] that way [Thursday] night, but it did for Kevin [Durant]. But that's the way things go in this game. You have to accept it, swallow it and move on," Jackson said.
http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-phi ... 7086.story
Phil is playing with fire. He just isn't afraid being fined. If Stern actually does have influence on refs I hope this doesn't back fire on the Lakers.
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