Cherry Picking recaps yesterday's NBA playoff action.Complaining about officiating is a tradition among NBA fans and coaches alike. After feeling like the Lakers got the short end of the whistles in Monday's Game 4 loss in Denver,
Phil Jackson took to the podium after the game to vent his frustrations.
"Basketball is a game where the aggressor gets the advantage. And tonight we didn't know what a foul was and what wasn't a foul,'' Jackson noted. "Start of the game, we got guys knocked around going to the basket, they said, 'We're going to get those things go.' By the end of the ballgame little fouls were being called all over the place."
Objectively speaking, Jackson probably had a point -- the Nuggets shot 49 free throws in a 19-point blowout on Monday -- but the league didn't care,
fining Jackson $25,000 for having the audacity to speak his mind and the Lakers organization another $25,000 for, well, employing a loudmouth, I suppose.