As of June 2007, he is the Executive Vice President of Basketball Operations for the NBA, a league official whose duties include penalizing players for on-court misconduct.
Jackson was the center of controversy for his handling of suspensions related to several incidents in the fourth game of the Phoenix Suns/San Antonio Spurs series in the 2007 NBA Playoffs.
In the closing seconds of Game 4, with the Suns leading 10097, the Spurs' Robert Horry committed a flagrant foul on Suns point guard Steve Nash, sending Nash into the scorer's table. Several Suns players moved away from their bench toward Nash and Horry after the foul. Jackson suspended Horry for two games for the hard foul on Nash and for delivering the forearm to Bell. Two Suns players were also suspended starting center Amar'e Stoudemire and swingman Boris Diaw for leaving the immediate bench area in violation of a league rule. Jackson said that "It's not a matter of fairness. It's a matter of correctness."
Jackson was also involved in controversial decisions to suspend Mavericks sixth man Jerry Stackhouse for the pivotal Game 5 of the 2006 NBA Finals against the Heat and to suspend Wizards reserve Darius Songaila for a pivotal Game 6 of a playoff series in 2008 against the Cavaliers.
In another isolated incident, Jackson was also involved in yet another controversial decision to not suspend or penalize Rajon Rondo's face-racking foul on Brad Miller with two seconds to go in Game 5 of a 2009 playoff series between the Celtics and the Bulls even though a flagrant was warranted. The foul left Miller with a mouth full of blood that required stitches, possibly costing the Bulls the game. The ruling was lenient, contradicting Jackson's previous statement claiming correctness is emphasized over fairness. Later, Jackson was quoted, saying, "We felt Rondo was making a basketball play and going for the ball after a blown defensive assignment by the Celtics team. In terms of criteria we use to evaluate a flagrant foul penalty 1, generally we like to consider whether or not there was a wind-up, an appropriate level of impact, and a follow through. And on this foul, we did not see a wind-up, nor did he follow through, so for that reason we're not going to upgrade this foul to a flagrant foul penalty 1. The initial play, in our mind, was on the ballan effort to try and make an attempt on the ball and take a foul that would prohibit a game-tying basket," despite replays that clearly show that Rondo was nowhere near the basketball and the fact that the mentioned criteria of a "wind up" and a "follow through" does not appear anywhere in the rule book.
In the following Bulls-Celtics game, Rondo was seen flinging Bulls point guard Kirk Hinrich to the scorers table, getting pushed by Hinrich, and retaliating with a missed elbow, in which Jackson was again in the middle of controversy by "sweeping it under the rug" and not suspending Rondo for either act or making any news of it.
That methhead should be suspended just off with pushing and getting aggressive with the ref alone. 
that's his job 
