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Phil Jackson is a retired NBA player and coach, who was most recently the coach of the Los Angeles Lakers. Jackson played 13 seasons in the NBA, winning two NBA championships in 1970 and 1973 as a member of the New York Knicks. Jackson was also the h...

How do you want to remember Phil Jackson? Let me answer that question for you. You want to think of him as the lord of the rings, the coach who mentored and mind-gamed some of the best basketball players in the history of the game, the brains behind ...

If Phil Jackson was picking his own dream team, his squad would start with someone other than Michael Jordan. "In my estimation, the guy that has to be there would be Bill Russell. He has won 11 championships as a player," Jackson said in an inter...

If Phil Jackson was picking his own dream team, his squad would start with someone other than Michael Jordan.

Back in April, Phil Jackson praised the Knicks. He went as far as to say they could challenge for the NBA title. Now? Not so much. In an interview with the New York Times, the Zen Master hinted that the Knicks are a ways away from winning a...

Chris Broussard empties the notebook and examines a potential power play by Phil Jackson in Detroit as summer coaching rumors start to stir in Brooklyn and Los Angeles.

Story | Conversation | May 23, 2013

Phil Jackson said Wednesday that critics of Derrick Rose should back off the Chicago Bulls star, who missed the entire 2012-13 season after undergoing ACL surgery on May 12, 2012. "Leave him alone," Jackson said on "Mike & Mike in the Morning" on ...

When Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak called Phil Jackson to tell him the Lakers were hiring Mike D'Antoni instead of him he responded the only way he knew how. "I laughed," Jackson says.

• 13-time NBA champion Phil Jackson tells Greeny and Golic about whether he could return to coaching, the Lakers' future, Los Angeles' decision to hire Mike D'Antoni, Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, Derrick Rose and much more. Jackso...

Earlier Tuesday, we posted a blank cartoon, and readers offered their captions. Our favorite was by RedWood81. Check your ESPN.com profile message center for an email. Thanks for participating. Check back Wednesday for another cartoon....

Greeny and Golic welcome ESPN NBA analyst Tim Legler (7:45 a.m. ET), 13-time NBA champion Phil Jackson (8:15), 2006 NBA champion Alonzo Mourning (9:00), Indians manager Terry Francona (9:15) and Bob and Greg Golic (9:30) to the show from Cleveland on...

Bradford Doolittle examines the Clippers' options for replacing fired head coach Vinny Del Negro.

Story | Conversation | May 21, 2013

Phil Jackson says the best job offer he has received recently was to coach the Brooklyn Nets.

Take a shot at writing a cartoon caption. Playbook cartoonist Kurt Snibbe will offer up a blank cartoon each weekday morning, and he will fill in the blank with our favorite reader submission at the end of the business day. So please, by all means...

Stephen Dunn/Getty Images The Spurs made a franchise-record 14 three-pointers and limited Zach Randolph to two points. The San Antonio Spurs didn't yield a point to Zach Randolph until there was 9:26 left on the clock in the fourth quarter. By th...

Phil Jackson compares Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant in new book