Phil Jackson Dabbles in Comedy, Gay Jokes
The Zen Master has been known to crack a joke from time to time; while often insensitive and deeply hurtful, his quips are usually hilarious. And yesterday, friends, was no different.
During his pregame Pow-wow with reporters, Jackson was presented with yet another question about the nuances of the Triangle Offense (something or other about penetration; look, I wasn’t really paying attention, OK?), and Phil decided to add some spice to the proceedings:
“We call this a ‘Brokeback Mountain’ game, because there’s so much penetration and kickouts,” Jackson said. “It was one of those games.”
Yuck Yuck!
While some are up in arms over this, I happen to find it quite hilarious. Had he referenced some raunchy film featuring two straight people, it would have driven the point home and perhaps even drawn a few chuckles, but it wouldn’t have been memorable, and I surely wouldn’t be blogging about it.
The League thinks Jackson’s comments were in poor taste, but they’re missing the point entirely. Phil wasn’t being homophobic; the guy simply made a sex joke but just happened to reference a movie featuring two secretly gay dudes. This is controversial? What year is this again?
(Phil’s “apology” for his remarks is awesome.)
94 Responses to “Phil Jackson Dabbles in Comedy, Gay Jokes”
Nov.15 at 10:38 am
BETCATS says:
wow phil that was different
Nov.15 at 10:39 am
white hot eboy says:
Phil is still the best. Although Riles last two post game rants are all-time classic worthy. Phil’s response is off the hook, too. “I want to apologize to any cowboys, any horses offended”. Perfect.
Nov.15 at 10:41 am
Sesa says:
I like Anne Hathaway in Brokeback mountain. The one in the car with Jake Gylenhall scene.
Nov.15 at 10:42 am
jj says:
the apology is priceless!
Nov.15 at 10:47 am
white hot eboy says:
Sesa, I wish I knew the car scene you speak of except I could never get the nerve up to watch the movie. I liked Jake too much in Donnie Darko to cloud my memory with rump wrangling.
Nov.15 at 10:51 am
Russ Bengtson says:
Did Kwame Brown have a comment?
Nov.15 at 10:52 am
white hot eboy says:
Nice, Russ.
Nov.15 at 10:52 am
Jared says:
I hope this doesn’t blow up, expect to see John Amechi on TV today…
Nov.15 at 10:53 am
Ryan Jones says:
Thank you, Mutoni.
And eboy, Sesa’s right. That girl is otherwise annoying, but I found myself really liking her during that scene…
Nov.15 at 10:55 am
white hot eboy says:
I’ll have to try and catch that scene without seeing the rest of the fravolity.
Nov.15 at 10:55 am
Tariq says:
Although Donnie Darko is highly regarded, I have to admit that I detested it. And I don’t know ANYONE who has seen Brokeback Mountain. I don’t know what the significance of that is, but what the hey. Then again, I don’t know who has seen Million Dollar Baby either.
Nov.15 at 10:56 am
Cheryl says:
Hilarious! I heard there were several horses offended by his comments. I hope they were able to hear his apology…
Nov.15 at 10:56 am
Russ Bengtson says:
Just watch her in Havoc instead.
Nov.15 at 10:57 am
phunkykarma says:
“all independent films are about gay cowboys eating pudding,” said Eric Cartman in south park , a long time before “Brokeback Montains” came out.
Nov.15 at 10:58 am
white hot eboy says:
Ryan & Sesa have seen it Tariq. So that’s two more than I have known previously. And I’m sure Shia has multiple copies on DVD/Blu Ray.
Nov.15 at 10:58 am
Dan says:
COMPLETELY UNRELATED: Eboy, your beloved Heat lost to who last night?!?!?! I was desperately hoping someone would have already brought it up, but man, that was bad!
Nov.15 at 10:59 am
Holly MacKenzie says:
Tariq: I HATED million dollar baby. Seriously it was a waste of time and made me cry forever because I turn to mush with stuff like that. So annoying.
Nov.15 at 10:59 am
white hot eboy says:
A day with an Eric Cartman mention is a good day in my book.
Nov.15 at 11:00 am
white hot eboy says:
Hi Dan. I’m waiting on Holly’s post to discuss basketball.
Nov.15 at 11:01 am
Hisham says:
“(There’s a reason professional sports lag behind just about every field, including even ministry, in having people come out of the closet. Gays who play sports are receiving messages their sexuality is not welcome here.)” This is only partly true. I won’t argue that the professional sportsworld is a gay-friendly environment. But I also think that there just aren’t that many gay people that have such a profession in mind in the first place. I don’t think homophobia is the biggest reason that gay people stay away from playing professional sports.
Nov.15 at 11:01 am
Cheryl says:
Phil was simply speaking out for the outspoken. I think he did the world justice. And on another note, the movie is a love story and there’s not a lot of “rump wrangling”. Just 2 people entangled in “forbidden love”. Sort of like Romeo and Juliett, just you know, with two guys. It really was a good movie, fellas, and seeing it won’t compromise your manhood, I promise.
Nov.15 at 11:01 am
Captain America says:
Marcel, you mirror my thoughts on this. SNL does bits on such things much more explicitly all the time.
Nov.15 at 11:03 am
Ryan Jones says:
Brokeback is a good movie, and one that I saw with my straight female wife.
Nov.15 at 11:03 am
Holly MacKenzie says:
It’s coming Eboy. Sam will have it posted shortly. I barely finished writing it until the weee hours of this morning because I lost my damn internet connection for the better part of the night. I was beyond frustrated. what does it mean if your wireless is connected and says it is working properly but it obviously is not?! I was an angry girl. And, of course it happens on a night with 13 games on the schedule! ahahah
Nov.15 at 11:03 am
Hisham says:
And I liked Million Dollar Baby
Nov.15 at 11:04 am
Captain America says:
Speaking on behalf of all cowboys and horses, shame.
Nov.15 at 11:04 am
Hisham says:
And I liked the Phil Jackson joke. And I bet lots of gay people laughed too.
Nov.15 at 11:04 am
Sesa says:
eboy, Just press fast forward button. The other scene is just too much drama-ish.
That scene is #1 rated jerkoff material.
Nov.15 at 11:04 am
Tariq says:
Holly: What you felt when you saw Million Dollar Baby is exactly how I felt when I tried to read Ulysses. I hate that book with a murderous passion. I wonder why films/books that get all the accolades make you want to nuke a small village. The NBA equivalent would be Tim Duncan.
Nov.15 at 11:05 am
Cheryl says:
Hisham, you would be surprised how many gay professional athletes there are. If there’s ten percent in the population (and I’m betting the number is higher, esp. if you count folks whose sexuality is fluid) then it makes sense that there’s at least that number in the professional sports ranks.
Nov.15 at 11:05 am
white hot eboy says:
“I’m a cowboy, on a steel horse I ride, I’m wanted, wanted, dead or alive”
Nov.15 at 11:06 am
Dan says:
Well, I have class today, but I have decided that today’s conversation will be way more important than anything we are going to discuss at school; count me in. . .
Nov.15 at 11:06 am
mutoni says:
phil’s comments were totally starbury. (we’re still doing that, yes?)
Nov.15 at 11:07 am
Holly MacKenzie says:
I’m with Cheryl. After reading the short story for school I looked forward to seeing the movie and it was really good. There was a ton of hoopla for a scene that was only seconds long. Of course the entire movie was a big deal, but people made it seem like the entire thing was full of sex. Not the case. And Anne Hathaway drives me crazy, she’s got a horse-face. Not that you would notice that during the car scene, but still.
Nov.15 at 11:08 am
Tariq says:
Ryan: I’m pretty sure Larry Craig also has a “female straight wife”. Ha. You walked right into that one.
Nov.15 at 11:08 am
white hot eboy says:
I actually have no problems with gays of both sexes. I play basketball on the weekends and there is a gay man that plays and plays very well. And i’m one of the few guys that actually hold’s conversations with him off the court because of my own comfortableness with him and the most of the other guys who still act like it’s 1950. And my wife and I have mutual lesbian friends who are both incredibly cool, genorous and liberal.
Nov.15 at 11:10 am
Tariq says:
Annie Proulx also wrote the story from which the worst movie ever made was extracted: The Shipping News. Nuff said.
Nov.15 at 11:10 am
white hot eboy says:
My spelling was off the charts terrible in that comment.
Nov.15 at 11:11 am
Tariq says:
Eboy: Nothing new there.
Nov.15 at 11:12 am
Hisham says:
Cheryl, I disagree. I think there are so many fields that absolutely do not reflect society, and i think the professional sports world is one of them. I do believe that there are more gay athletes than we know about, but not MANY more. I am just happy that I live in a very tolerant country where being gay isn’t only accepted, but also not a big deal at all.
Nov.15 at 11:13 am
Jared says:
sesa that’s real funny…you don’t have to feel awkward that nobody replied to your comment, haha creep
Nov.15 at 11:13 am
Holly MacKenzie says:
Ulysses was a challenge for me as well, Tariq. I couldn’t get into it and all of the praise that was constantly shoved down my throat about it didn’t help matters.
Nov.15 at 11:13 am
Boing Dynasty says:
Grammar too, Eboy.
Nov.15 at 11:14 am
white hot eboy says:
Hi Boing.
Nov.15 at 11:15 am
Cheryl says:
I wish we could take a census, but I’d put money on out of the +/- 400 NBA players, there’s at least +/- 30 who are gay. But, we’ll have to agree to disagree, Hisham, cuz that census taking won’t happen.
Nov.15 at 11:16 am
white hot eboy says:
Is anyone besides me waiting excitedley for Shia’s first f*ck post of the day? This subject should send him into full fury mode.
Nov.15 at 11:16 am
Hisham says:
One thing that I would like to add, is that there also aren’t that many fields that involve standing naked in the shower with your coworkers. So, even if to some degree a pro athlete would be liberal enough to not care about having a homosexual on the team(which i would applaud), he would probably still flinch about showering with them
Nov.15 at 11:17 am
Holly MacKenzie says:
the spelling might have been off but the message was a good one, Eboy. People are just people, whether you agree with how they live their lives doesn’t matter. We each have a chance to live our own life, so respect others choices. ignorance equals hate and it baffles me that some people still can’t wrap their heads around that. If you don’t agree with something, thats fine, don’t do it.
Nov.15 at 11:18 am
Tariq says:
Eboy: Don’t worry about your laughable spelling. It’s fine. I would worry about your lack of intelligence and/or insight, though.
Nov.15 at 11:18 am
Hisham says:
Alright let’s agree to disagree. But i do think we’re onto something: a gay guessing game! or would that be offensive?
Nov.15 at 11:18 am
Sesa says:
Jared, which part of the comment I didn’t get the reply? I’m the first who brought up the car scene.
Nov.15 at 11:18 am
Chris O says:
“Phil Jackson’s been coaching long enough that he should be able to talk about the Lakers’ performance without resorting to cheap gay jokes.” So when GLAAD calls a joke gay it’s okay, but if I do it, I’m a homophobe? That’s gay.
Nov.15 at 11:20 am
Tariq says:
Hisham: Mike Miller?
Nov.15 at 11:21 am
white hot eboy says:
Tariq, what color cowboy hat do you have on currently?
Nov.15 at 11:21 am
Russ Bengtson says:
Kind of like “Who He Play For?” but different.
Nov.15 at 11:22 am
Tariq says:
Eboy: fuscia
Nov.15 at 11:25 am
Hisham says:
nah i think mike miller is comfortable enough with his straight sexuality that he can rock that haircut. I might be wrong though.
Nov.15 at 11:25 am
Tariq says:
*fuschia
Nov.15 at 11:27 am
Hisham says:
i seriously wouldn’t be able to name a “suspect”.. Cheryl, you think there’s 30! (whopping average of 1 per team). You must be able to think of one that dresses a little too well to be straight haha
Nov.15 at 11:27 am
Tariq says:
Good point Hisham. Although I maintain that he’s not really a gay man, but rather a very butch lesbian. Think of it as sort of an inverted Juwanna Man sort of thing. Better yet, don’t think of it all, because this is a very disturbing and unsettling prospect.
Nov.15 at 11:29 am
German Reignman says:
wow, White Hotel Boy is quoting Bon Jovi … I knew it all along …. And Phil is so known for stuff like that … anyone remember him referring to the mormons as a “cult” and not a religion ?
Nov.15 at 11:29 am
Tariq says:
In a related topic, I’m pretty sure Sam Cassell is a closet extra-terrestrial. I’m willing to bet a considerable sum that he’s from Neptune.
Nov.15 at 11:31 am
Tariq says:
Wait, didn’t Sam mention something similar about Mike Miller a little while ago?
Nov.15 at 11:31 am
white hot eboy says:
Re: your screenname, German, shouldn’t it be White Hostel Eboy.
Nov.15 at 11:32 am
Hisham says:
And Robert Swift is a wizard/warrior from fantasy novels
Nov.15 at 11:34 am
Hisham says:
Cassell would’ve been a cheap pick-up for sci-fi movies. he doesn’t need the makeup
Nov.15 at 11:43 am
German Reignman says:
Re: why, because of your hostility ?
Nov.15 at 11:46 am
white hot eboy says:
Your name is misleading then, Reignman. Perhaps your are closer in similarity to the Dustin Hoffman character of the saime name with a different spelling.
Nov.15 at 11:46 am
white hot eboy says:
*same
Nov.15 at 11:48 am
Tariq says:
Eboy: You are laime.
Nov.15 at 11:49 am
Tariq says:
*lame
Nov.15 at 11:51 am
white hot eboy says:
Tariq, your badgering would be funnier if you actually said something amusing. It’s better when you just let it happen in conversation and not trying to bait me into response. Try again later.
Nov.15 at 11:53 am
German Reignman says:
you should know about Hoffmann … seeing how Kramer vs. Kramer probably led to your career decision … and seeing how you can`t stand typos I get the feeling that you might have an autistic side in yourself … “246 toothpicks”
Nov.15 at 12:00 pm
white hot eboy says:
Hoffman has one n, GR.
Nov.15 at 12:02 pm
German Reignman says:
Well, there`s also one in Dustin …. sorry, had to write that«
Nov.15 at 12:04 pm
Big J says:
gotta give props to phil for thinking on his his feet like that
Nov.15 at 12:11 pm
Jared says:
sesa i was responding to your ranking of the scene lol
Nov.15 at 12:13 pm
Kevin says:
he’s on a roll this year haha..
Nov.15 at 12:25 pm
Sesa says:
What can I say, I like to jerk-off. It kept my lust in-check.
Nov.15 at 12:53 pm
Hisham says:
Who He Gay For?
Nov.15 at 1:00 pm
Jake says:
Phil fantastic provides more entertainment to this already great season! He should take that show on the road, perhaps with Kramer and Mel Gibson…They’d be put in the Comedian Axis Of Evil I think
Nov.15 at 1:11 pm
Bryan says:
That apology was priceless.
Nov.15 at 1:17 pm
HighDef says:
What I want to know is how do you come up with that on the spot? Granted the joke was pretty corny whichever way you look at it but that had to be pre-meditated. ^word on the apology
Nov.15 at 1:33 pm
Bryan says:
I’m always too late now =(
Nov.15 at 1:38 pm
Tariq says:
Eboy: I don’t follow
Nov.15 at 2:27 pm
princegoro says:
Friends in DC told me they saw many tough looking dudes watched the movie in the theater when it came out. I bet many of them would never admit they saw the movie.
Nov.15 at 2:53 pm
patrick says:
None of this would have been an issue if he said “leakouts” instead of “kickouts.”
Nov.15 at 3:22 pm
Rubens says:
quote of the year
Nov.15 at 4:09 pm
bike says:
Who cares if Phil offended a few straight or gay people with his joke? Lighten up folks. It’s the horses I care about. Jeez, Phil, they are just dumb animals. You owe horses a big apology.
Nov.15 at 5:11 pm
Shambles says:
Gay and living in Los Angeles, at times a rather liberal city. I’m well aware of who Phil Jackson is and familiar with his career. Having said that, personally, I am in NO way offended by the remarks recently made by Phil Jackson. I found them to be rather funny. Phil is pretty quick on his feet. Abyhow, some people take things way too serious these days and a prime example are the folks at GLAAD.
Nov.15 at 5:55 pm
Tarzan Cooper says:
greatest apology ever
Nov.15 at 6:00 pm
d.Y. says:
Would the German Reignman be Shawn Kamf?
Nov.15 at 6:14 pm
mike says:
A sex joke is a sex joke.
Nov.15 at 7:14 pm
DannyW_UK says:
Patrick, is that what Buttplugs are for? I always wondered…..