Carlisle knows that attitude first hand.
And for what its worth, Artest may have inhereted all the blame for the famous brawl, but Jackson acted the worst of any player out there. When the fight first started amongst the players he was tearing at his shirt and had to be held back by Carlisle. After hell broke loose, he just ran up into the stands windmilling one fan and slamming another fan's head into the fold-up portion of a seat. After Artest knocked one guy down, Jackson repeatedly punched the fan in the face while he was down and was still punching when staff pulled him away then began kidney punching some other fan as he was pulled toward the tunnel. He didn't even care who he hit. Even after he was escorted off, he pulled off his shirt and was reported to have repeatedly scream that he was going to kill someone. Its one thing to have a quick fuse, its another to be a powder keg ready to go off at any time with no safety and no turn-off nob.
Nelson may have a reputation for angering players with his low-support, sometimes illogical tactics and dont-question-me attitude, but that response from Jackson was ridiculous.
I'm personally glad that we had nothing to do with Jackson and hope we dont change our minds either. Jackson is as angry as Artest is eccentric (insane) and thats not what we need on this team. We already have Howard who can require some kid gloves at times. We dont need to be the 90s Jailblazers to compete in the conference finals.