Jackson fined $25,000 for criticizing referees

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Phil Jackson was fined $25,000 by the NBA on Wednesday for criticizing referees Friday night after the Lakers' 114-108 loss to Utah. Jackson was quoted in several newspapers about the way the officials -- Derrick Stafford, Derek Richardson and Leroy Richardson -- handled second-year center Andrew Bynum. In the second quarter, Bynum was called for traveling and moments later he was whistled for a foul when he thought he drew a charge against Matt Harpring. The 19-year-old Bynum approached the referees, but teammate Kobe Bryant intervened. "The big key with Drew is they wouldn't let him play," Jackson said following the game. Jackson called the matchup a "roughhouse game" and it was "one of those nights in Utah that you know you're going to get." "The league throws out some referee corps that you're dubious about to start with and, you know, the game ends up to be like that," he said.