If there’s one thing we’ve learned about Phil Jackson in the last few years, it’s that he loves to stir things up on Twitter. He did it again on Sunday.
With the basketball world still reveling in Stephen Curry’s magical performance Saturday night, the current Knicks president doused a cold bucket of water on everyone with a tweet comparing him such a luminary as Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf.
Never seen anything like SCurry? Remind you of Chris Jackson/ Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf, who had a short but brilliant run in NBA?
— Phil Jackson (@PhilJackson11) February 28, 2016
For context, Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf played nine seasons in the NBA and shot 35.4 percent from three point range, a full nine percent lower than Curry’s career rate of 44.6 percent. Abdul-Rauf made 474 career threes, which is one hundred fewer than Curry has made in the last two seasons alone. He was known as an outstanding free throw shooter, but so too is Curry.
Basically, it looks like Phil’s just trolling hard here. We know he hates three point shooting teams, so this criticism – if you can even call it that – is pretty much in the same vein. As Jeanie Buss told us, the guy just loves to start a few fires from time to time, and this is almost certainly one of them, but one must ask what the point is.
