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By J.A. Adande Phil Jackson shouldn't take it personally should he and the Lakers part ways this summer, even if it comes right after a championship. It happens to the best of them. Like Jerry West. Or Phil Jackson. West stepped aside as the La...

By J.A. Adande The true reflection of Phil Jackson's stature in the NBA coaching hierarchy isn't that he surpassed Pat Riley for most victories as coach of the Lakers. It's that he no longer needs to be measured against Riley, the man who provided...

Lakers vs. Celtics Steve Springer of the Los Angeles Times: "The primary targets are always the same: Kobe Bryant first, then Coach Phil Jackson, and on to Lamar Odom or Derek Fisher or Pau Gasol. But not Sunday. The days ahead will offer plenty of...

Yesterday, Roland Lazenby told us some interesting stuff about the Lakers. (He is quite a guy. He wrote the book on the Lakers, sometimes runs a Laker blog, edits Lindy's Pro Basketball Annual, and does a lot of interesting things associated with the...

Roland Lazenby's Lakernoise blog has all kinds of interesting points to add to this debate, from Phil Jackson's longtime right-hand man (and current Laker consultant) Tex Winter. Winter has been around both Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant for almost t...

Roland Lazenby has written books about Phil Jackson's Bulls, Phil Jackson's Lakers, and Kobe Bryant. (His Laker book "The Show" is fantastic.) So he knows a thing or two about the way Phil Jackson and Kobe Bryant relate. Lazenby is also exceedingly c...