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04:57 AM ET 06.11 | In breaking a gag order imposed last summer by commissioner David Stern on NBA employees from talking publicly about disgraced referee Tim Donaghy, Lakers coach Phil Jackson said last night the league should not govern the referees. Jackson is lobbying for a separate officiating entity to be established. "A lot of things have happened in the course of the Tim Donaghy disposition," Jackson said. "I think we have to weigh it as it comes out, and we all think that probably referees should be under a separate entity than the NBA entirely. That's what we'd like to see in the NBA. "It would just be separate and apart from it. But I don't think that's going to happen. That's just a want and desire in the area of having everything apart from the NBA." Jackson's remarks came on the day new allegations were made by Donaghy that referees were influenced by the league to extend playoff series, including a 2002 Lakers-Kings battle. Last night when the 2002 series was brought up, Jackson said "a lot of things" have been "suspicious." Jeff Van Gundy was fined $100,000 by the NBA for once saying that an official told him Yao Ming was being targeted by referees. But last night Van Gundy said he didn't want to give credence to Donaghy's latest allegations because he's not credible.