This is one of the craziest rumors for a long time in the NBA: Phil Jackson would be racist! Accused by Scottie Pippen, the Zen Master can count on the support of Shaquille O’Neal and a former Laker, even if the latter made a rather crazy revelation.
In the middle of a media tour for his new book and his brand of whiskey, Scottie Pippen dropped a huge bombshell on his former trainer Phil Jackson: he would be racist! A serious accusation supported by some Internet users, who found excerpts from more than doubtful interviews with the coach…
But for the legend Robert Horry, who experienced the 3-peat with the Lakers in the early 2000s, we would be more on awkwardness and a bad choice of words than racism strictly speaking. He spoke on his podcast, the ” Big Shot Bob Pod“, And he remembered a pretty legendary time-out.
I don’t think Phil Jackson is racist… But sometimes I had to repeat it on certain lines. Sometimes we were in a circle during the time-outs, and Phil would say things like, “You have to recognize the sound of your master’s voice.” I looked at him and had to tell him that I came from the segregationist South and that he could not use the word “master”.
