Strip Clubs Beware

The Indiana Pacers will be at the United Center tonight to play the Bulls, but will be doing so without Stephen Jackson.

Jackson has been suspended for conduct detrimental to the team stemming from an incident in the Pacers 107-75 loss to Cleveland on Saturday.

Late in the second quarter, Jackson was pulled by Carlisle and the two had words. Carlisle then pointed for Jackson to leave the bench area, banishing the fiery guard to the locker room for the remainder of the game.

"I substituted for him. He came to the bench and an exchange ensued that I thought was inappropriate and detrimental to the team," Carlisle said. "So I made a decision to remove him from the bench.

"These games are difficult. If you don't have everybody with a laser-like focus on one task, which is playing like a team and competing hard, it gets even more difficult."

All of this means that Stephen won't have much else to do tonight in Chicago except visit some of our finer gentlemen's establishments.

Here's hoping he doesn't bring his gun.

On second thought, here's hoping he does. It'll give us something to write about tomorrow.