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The differences between great NBA coaches and poor coaches are subtle because most coaches at the NBA level are basketball experts. For example, Stan Van Gundy has been widely criticized by the media during the 2009 NBA playoffs while Phil Jackson has been praised with very little criticism. Why does the sports media differ in their treatment of these two coaches when they have both coached their team to the NBA Finals?

The referees in the playoffs have been bad. And everyone all over the country has complained about it. Usually the losing team coach, players and fans are the loudest. A lot of it is the whole confusion about what is a flagrant 1 or flagrant 2 that is confusing from the NBA. And the fact that there are playoff games with road teams that aren't aggressive (the Lakers) shooting 45+ free throws should be an embarrassment to the league. And the refs missing the flopping (Anderson Varejao) in the league has become such a problem that they had to come up with a penalty for flopping. But I'm taking the refs off the hook a little bit and putting a lot of the blame on the players.

Los Angeles Lakers head coach, Phil Jackson will be featured in a special interview during the ABC broadcast of Sunday's Laker game with the Spurs. An interview conducted by Magic Johnson, Phil Jackson discusses how he anticipates retiring after the 2009-2010 NBA season, when his contract with the Lakers expires. Jackson stresses that Lakers owner Jerry Buss has emphasized his desire to keep Jackson as coach, but he just wants to take one season at a time.

Considered one of the greatest coaches of all-time, 1010-426 record, an incredible .703 winning percentage as well as a 193-84 playoff record. He owns nine championship rings (6 with Chicago, 3 with Los Angeles) and has never hid his desire to own more championship rings than the late Boston head coach, Red Auerback, who also owns nine with Boston. Jackson has coached the most dominant player to ever play the game, Michael Jordan and was behind the nearly untouchable perfect season in the 95-96 season, going 72-10 with the Chicago Bulls.

At age 63, and two hip replacement surgeries, Jackson has been an NBA head coach for 18 years, after a 12-year playing career. He was also inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2007. What this means for the Los Angeles Lakers franchise remains to be unseen, but Jackson is sure to aim for that 10th ring in the next two years.

Look out for the interview this Sunday on ABC.

Our friend A.J. Daulerio of Deadspin.com and Mike Florio of Profootballtalk.com have been haggling over this report that Browns GM sent a pretty nasty reply to a fan email basically telling the fan in question to:

From: Savage, Phil
Subject: Re: Browns
To: xxxxxxx
Date: Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 12:17 AM
Go root for Buffalo-F**k you-

I get my share of lets say not so kind emails from readers. But that is part of the job of putting your opinion out there for millions of people. In these type of situations the best thing to do is just ignore them or reply back kindly. Honestly I wouldn't be surprise if this is a true reply from Savage considering how dysfunction the Browns have become, but it is totally unprofessional and uncalled for. His position requires him to be the bigger man in this situation and if it is found out to be true maybe Dictator Goodell can take some time out from fining players for legal hits and fine Savage for his improper behavior.

Phil, you reminded me why I used to hate you so much. You'd fallen off my 'I got nothin for that guy' list because you'd managed to avoid falling into your old habit. But now you've relapsed in a huge way.

Phil, please, for the sake of everyone.....SHUT UP ALREADY! Your team did not get hosed by the refs. Yes, there were some bad calls, but you got plenty of makeup non calls in the second half. Your guys got called for seven more fouls than the Celtics did, just seven. And since they got in the penalty relatively early in more than one quarter, a lot of free throws came from non-shooting fouls. That's life, Phil. Tell your guys to stop reaching in and fouling on putbacks of offensive rebounds. And while you're at it, tell them to stop shooting so many friggin jump shots if they want to go to the line more. You don't get a lot of fouls called on jump shots, Phil. You know that.

But you're back on my list because you went back to your Bulls coaching days with your latest complaint. Just like you were prone to do whenever my Knicks won a game against your team, you cried about the foul shots, or lack thereof, that your team got. So now you're back on my list, Phil. Now the refs, being human, are going to call it your way in game three.

Kobe Bryant will have to pull out a saw-offed shotgun and start blasting in order to get in foul trouble early, and I full expect the 'if he's got three fouls at halftime, he can murder the other guy in the second half because we're not going to give him six' rule to be in effect with Kobe like it used to be wih MJ. If your team doesn't win game three, then the Apocalyse is upon us and we'd better all say our prayers.

Stop crying Phil, it's bad form! Of course it works for you, so I don't expect you to stop. I haven't forgotten how your team got the biggest gift ever from the refs in game six against the Kings six years ago. You're back on my list Phil, and this time you're not coming off.