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John Gasaway takes a brief glimpse at how zone defense affects shot selection -- We assume it forces offenses to take more threes, but is that really true? The answer is yes, by an extra three for every 10 minutes of basketball played. That's not a h...

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Doc Rivers went to bat for Phil Jackson on Tuesday, saying he deserved better from the Lakers. "I didn't like the way it was done," Rivers said to Chris Russo on SirusXM's Mad Dog Radio. "I don't think you embarrass anybody." After relieving M...

At some point the question of pride -- or the lack of it -- has to be addressed. Not as an issue among many, but possibly as the Lakers' first, foremost and only issue.

If Mike Woodson wants to keep his job, he'll craft a better Game 2 plan.

Don't expect Phil Jackson to save the Knicks. He's too smart to take the job.

NEW YORK - Don't expect another free-throw exhibition when the Knicks host Dwight Howard and the Orlando Magic Monday at Madison Square Garden. The Magic center set an NBA record with 39 free throw attempts last Thursday against the Mark Jackson-l...

"These guys just don't want to play hard right now," Phil Jackson said after the game. Really? Couldn't tell. The streak now sits at four, and with the loss the Lakers slip behind Miami on the playoff ladder- both teams have 24 losses, but the ...

Lakers coach Phil Jackson slammed the Heat Monday.

Despite what you might have heard, the NBA sky is not falling just because LeBron and Melo turned their backs on the Cavs and the Nuggets to start fresh in greener pastures.

Lakers coach Phil Jackson joined Mavericks owner Mark Cuban on Friday in lambasting the NBA for allowing the league-owned Hornets to complete a trade with Sacramento in which they absorbed salary and sent cash to the Kings.

Phil Jackson wasn't in a nostalgic mood about his possible last trip to MSG.

DALLAS -- Mavs owner Mark Cuban and legendary Lakers coach Phil Jackson have exchanged many jabs via the media throughout the years. Don't take any of it too seriously. Cuban surely doesn't. "I like him a lot," Cuban said. "Anybody who can inte...

Our Adena Andrews and Phil Jackson have something in common: they don't think the NBA should schedule games for Christmas. Thirteen hours of basketball mask the real meaning of the holiday.

Magic coach Stan Van Gundy called Phil Jackson "ignorant" for hypothesizing that the Heat soon could change coaches if the ultratalented Heat don't shake their sluggish start.

Lakers coach Phil Jackson says Heat coach Erik Spoelstra could be in trouble if the team doesn't turn it around.