NEW YORK -- Scottie Pippen of the Portland Trail Blazers was fined $10,000 Tuesday for hitting John Salley of the Los Angeles Lakers in the back of the head with a forearm.
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Lakers coach Phil Jackson said he told Pippen during Tuesday's Game 5 he should have been suspended for a game for elbowing Salley.
"He shouldn't have been playing in this ballgame," Jackson said. "He clearly threw a cheap-shot elbow to the back of the head and he just got fined $10,000. I wanted to tell him that he was a presence who shouldn't have been there."
In the latest of what has been a back-and-forth bickering between the player and his former coach, Pippen was unimpressed by Jackson's opinion.
"Phil is not my coach. I'm not listening to nothing you tell me about Phil. Have a good day," he said after Portland's Game 5 win, then he left the postgame news conference.
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