When the Brooklyn Nets fired former head coach Avery Johnson on Thursday; it was reported that the Team’s Owner Mikhail Prokhorov, had one candidate at the top of his wish list to take over running his squad; former Lakers and Bulls head coach Phil Jackson. Those hopes appeared dead in the water a short time …
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Nov 12 2012
Offense Will Rule As Mike D’Antoni Named New Coach For Lakers
The Los Angeles Lakers, have not only changed head coaches over the last few days; they have radically altered their plan of attack, as the “Los Angeles Times” reported Monday, that the club has hired former Phoenix Suns and New York Knicks coach Mike D’Antoni, to replace Mike Brown, fired by the squad last week. …
Nov 11 2012
Could A Jackson-Shaw Tandem On Bench Turn Lakers Fortunes Around?
Residents of the “City Of Angels” have noticed a new odor in the air, over the past few days; adding to the stench of the smog, gasoline and diesel fumes that always permeate the city. The scent is desperation, emanating from the Staples Center; more precisely the Los Angeles Lakers organization; normally one of the most stable …
Jun 16 2012
Is What’s Good For Carmelo Anthony, Good For The Knicks?
When a man who as a coach has led 11 teams to an NBA Championship, refers to your roster as “clumsy,” it might be a good time for a franchise to re-evaluate its game-plan. That was the label that former Chicago Bulls and Los Angeles Lakers bench boss Phil Jackson, stuck on the New York Knicks, …
Jun 16 2012
Phil Jackson Calls Knicks “Clumsy” In HBO Interview
Former head coach Phil Jackson revealed in an upcoming interview on HBO, that he was glad that he was not contacted by the New York Knicks, before they decided that Mike Woodson was the man who the club wanted to lead the team from the bench next season, because he had no interest in the …
Jun 01 2012
Phil Jackson Pulls Plug On Possible Plan To Become Magic Executive
The “Orlando Sentinel” reported on Friday that former Los Angeles Lakers head coach Phil Jackson has had second thoughts about possibly becoming a member of the Orlando Magic’s front office starting next season. According to the paper, the former Los Angeles bench boss had expressed interest in a scenario presented to him by former Charlotte …
Mar 14 2012
Reprint: Could Phil Jackson Be Bench Boss Of Knicks For The 2012 Season?
With much of the discussion since former New York Knicks head coach Mike D’Antoni resigning his position with the team on Wednesday, now starting to focus on the feasibility of former Los Angeles Lakers bench boss Phil Jackson becoming the Knicks head coach for next season; it brought back to mind a column I wrote on …
Aug 09 2011
Could Phil Jackson Be Bench Boss Of Knicks For The 2012 Season?
The New York Knicks over the years have been given far more prestige by the national media than has been warranted by what they have done on the hardwood. The last time the team won an NBA Title was back in the early seventies, during the days of Walt Frazier and Willis Reed; yet the media portrays …
Jul 15 2011
Shaw Found Out He Did Not Get Lakers Coaching Job On TV
During this past season it appeared that Los Angeles Lakers assistant coach Brian Shaw would succeed Phil Jackson as the bench boss of the team once Jackson retired at the end of the campaign. Although he interviewed for the position, the Lakers decided they wanted an experienced hand guiding the team and hired former Cleveland Cavaliers head coach …
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Nov 12 2012
First Lakers Lesson For D’Antoni, Nobody Puts Kobe In A Corner
Commentary, NBA Analysis
by Jeff Sack
Even if produced before you were born, odds are good that you have seen the movie “Dirty Dancing,” at least once. This coming of age tale, set in the Catskill Mountains of New York, in the early sixties; has to be one of the largest selling video and DVD ever produced. Chances are also strong …
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