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Deciphering Phil Jackson’s latest weird tweet

Alysha Tsuji
USA TODAY
New York Knicks president Phil Jackson answers questions during a news conference at the team's training facility in Greenburgh, N.Y. Jackson took what appeared to be another dig at forward Carmelo Anthony in a tweet on Feb. 7, 2017.

The New York Knicks have had a lot of problems this season, and on Wednesday night, things only got much worse.

During the Knicks' loss to the Clippers, Charles Oakley was escorted out of the building and arrested, and after the game, Carmelo Anthony didn't sound too confident when asked about whether or not he still trusts franchise president Phil Jackson.

Following that disaster of a night, Jackson took to Twitter on Thursday to say this:

The first part of that is pretty clear, but the second half isn't, so uh, here's an attempt to break it down, like we did with Jackson's last tweet:

So after starting a (fire emoji) storm with a misunderstood tweet,

On Tuesday, Jackson sent out this tweet that was seen as a shot at Anthony, perhaps even meant to push Anthony to consider waiving his no-trade clause.

Now, apparently, Jackson is saying that the tweet was "misunderstood," which, I guess he could say since the tweet is pretty hard to understand.

I offer this (two fingers emoji)

I believe this translates to, "I offer this peace," as in he's trying to mend things. Lots of emojis this time.

our society is torn with discord.

This part can be interpreted in many different ways.

Maybe Jackson is talking about his conflict with Anthony or maybe he's referring to Oakley being arrested for, in the Knicks' words, behaving in a " highly inappropriate and completely abusive manner" - or maybe he means society in general.

I'm against it.

Whatever Jackson was referring to out of those three things above, he's against it.

Let It Be.

All of the words are uppercase here, so my first guess is that he's talking about The Beatles song, Let It Be. But whether or not it's meant to be the title of the song or just saying "let it be," it's weird. He's saying that he's against discord, but that he or the media or Oakley or Anthony or fans or whoever he's subtweeting here should just stop trying to mess with it? Wouldn't a better thing be to fix it, though?

That's where it ends. Stay tuned for FTW's next edition of Trying to decipher Phil Jackson's Tweet.