" NBA -- it's No Boys Allowed."

Yes the NBA is No Boys Allowed or it is in the mind of anyone who knows the game like nine time champ Phil Jackson, Jackson told reporters " "That's crazy. That's a vendetta. They have a witch hunt going on. That's nuts. [Korver's] riding somebody. Everybody does that in this league.

"It's just becoming a witch hunt now," he said. "I know it's not a contact sport per se, but it's a physical game and there's a lot of intimidation," Jackson said. "I think that Kobe plays the game within the bounds. There's a certain rule that we have in this game about how to play it. The men play it. That's why it's called the NBA -- it's No Boys Allowed." Bryant has received two one-game suspensions this season for throwing elbows in games, once against the Timberwolves' Marko Jaric , for which he was whistled for an offensive foul, and the other against the Spurs' Manu Ginobili , where he didn't receive a foul on the play. The Spurs said after the game the it was not a foul and it was in no way a dirty play. Kobe is thought by most who know the game to be the best player in the game today and not to be in anyway a dirty player.

"It's insulting," Bryant said before the slumping Lakers flew to Denver for Thursday night's game against the Nuggets. "I don't need to be a dirty player. That's just ridiculous. I'm not a dirty player -- never have been, never will be."

"It is an after-the-fact type of thing," Jackson told reporters, "and that is bothersome. They have the advantage of looking at videotape. "We wish they would correct some of the mistakes they make in a ballgame the same way," he said. "There's a couple of games that probably could be swung, won or lost, by some of the calls they [could] correct after the fact. But you can't do that in the game. This all looks to be true, so in my mind I would have to go along with Jackson in saying this is a "witch hunt" It is hard to see the NBA doing the same thing to a Lebron James or a D Wade, not that they should anyway as Jackson said this is the NBA- No Boys Allowed. It looks to me as if the only crying little boys in the NBA are Stu Jackson and David Stern, Maybe they should stop the "witch hunt" and go back to what they do best, telling the players what they should look like when they come to the game and making sure that they do not talk back about the officiating!"