Um mal Stern zu Wort kommen zu lassen:
"The brawl sort of [became] a flashpoint for a lot of feelings that are out there. With race, there's always an issue. And the brawl, unfairly, became the opportunity for the commentators to talk about all NBA players, although 450 of them were not involved in the brawl. 'These people.' 'These thugs.' 'These punks.' And that was a horrible sort of libel and slander of the NBA players. Images that ran were run in the context of a condemnation of all NBA players, and that really upset me. That became a critical flashpoint. And so we've got to dig out from under that," Stern said.
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/columns/story?columnist=sheridan_chris&id=2201231
Mr Stephen Jackson ist wirklich der Allerletzte, bzw. der allerletzte, der sich über den "NBA Dress Code" beschweren darf.