Phil Jackson's retiring this summer

[InRareForm]

via twitter (petros and money show)

[Dex]

I feel like I should care...but I don't.

Surprised there wasn't some parting shot at the refs. I guess there's still time.

[lefty]

Bluff

He is going to coach Lebron in Chicago

[IronMexican]

Fuck, hope not.

[Sisk]

Bluff

He is going to coach Lebron in Chicago

beat me to it

[djohn2oo8]

Soo, Kobe signs his extension, then Phil retires?

[Phil Jackson]

I would've won a few more if we didn't have to play 8 on 5 all the time

[rjv]

I would've won a few more if we didn't have to play 8 on 5 all the time

:lmao

[4>0rings]

I would've won a few more if we didn't have to play 8 on 5 all the timeHow do these fucks get their trolls aproved so quickly. :lol

[MiamiHeat]

fucking SWEEEEETT

now watch him let loose on the shit that was "coaching" kobe

[HarlemHeat37]

I can't wait until his next book, should be very informative..

This should be extra motivation for the Lakers..

[BlackSwordsMan]

too bad he never attained title of best coach before retiring

[ffadicted]

Phil is going wherever the superstars are stacked next year folks, don't fool yourselves lol

[bostonguy]

I doubt he retires if they win it all. He would want to go for that 4th 3 peat. If they fail to repeat, then I could see it.

That being said, Laker fans, who would you like the most as a Jackson heir. I hear the name Brian Shaw quite a lot. Has he been learning under Phil?

[JamStone]

Good luck with Byron Dumbass, Lakeshow.

[MiamiHeat]

i will be so happy if Phil signs with wherever LeBron goes

a great coach is exactly what LeBron has been missing. Mike Brown fucking sucks.

[Killakobe81]

Whatever ...hope he stays if he doesnt we will still thrive this is the LOS ANGELES M"FIN LAKERS!!!!

LOL Would mis him didnt like him much at first (Riley fan) but you cant deny his results

[bostonguy]

i will be so happy if Phil signs with wherever LeBron goes

a great coach is exactly what LeBron has been missing. Mike Brown fucking sucks.

Say for some reason Phil decides to coach another team, he won't trade LA scenery for Cleveland scenery.

[Killakobe81]

fucking SWEEEEETT

now watch him let loose on the shit that was "coaching" kobe

Sad, so sad ...a NBa icon may retire and THAT is what you looking forward to? Pathetic.

[bostonguy]

Whatever ...hope he stays if he doesnt we will still thrive this is the LOS ANGELES M"FIN LAKERS!!!!

LOL Would mis him didnt like him much at first (Riley fan) but you cant deny his results

Even after this run by the Lakers ends, the Lakers will reload within 2-3 years. They never stay average for long. They have done this their entire history and I don't expect that to change.

[JamStone]

Even after this run by the Lakers ends, the Lakers will reload within 2-3 years. They never stay average for long. They have done this their entire history and I don't expect that to change.

Reloading to become better than average versus legitimate contention are two different things. Remember, it was 12 years between the Magic Lakeshow and the Shaq-Kobe championships. They may reload more quickly than any other NBA franchise, but that doesn't mean after this particular run is over that they'll be title contenders again in 2-3 years.

[Muser]

At least Pop won't shit himself at the sight of him anymore.

[bostonguy]

Reloading to become better than average versus legitimate contention are two different things. Remember, it was 12 years between the Magic Lakeshow and the Shaq-Kobe championships. They may reload more quickly than any other NBA franchise, but that doesn't mean after this particular run is over that they'll be title contenders again in 2-3 years.

It all depends on who the coach is. That 90's team had the talent but didn't have the coaching.

[oh crap]

maybe it's time for the old man to settle down, pop a few viagara and bring out the freak in jeanie again (ala her playboy days)

http://www2.pictures.gi.zimbio.com/2nd+Annual+Celebrity+Poker+Challenge+Benefiting+9R RhUL2mNSxl.jpg

[MiamiHeat]

Sad, so sad ...a NBa icon may retire and THAT is what you looking forward to? Pathetic.

I already said goodbye to him in 1998 and then again for the "final" time in 2004

all of this post-jordan/shaq lakers nonsense is just the Lakers/Kobe begging Phil to come back and paying him $12 million per season. Phil thought it was hard to say no to that kind of cash, plus his wife kept nagging him.

he really doesn't want to coach Kobe, nobody would

[tdunk21]

Phil is going wherever the superstars are stacked next year folks, don't fool yourselves lol

thats what he always does....jordan, kobe....lol...

[Muser]

Where's Cully with his little cut/paste on how Kobe let him back in?

[MiamiHeat]

Where's Cully with his little cut/paste on how Kobe let him back in?

Kobe/Lakers BEGGED Phil to come back

One of the BIGGEST ways to start repairing Kobe's "image" is to make amends with the guy who has won 9 championships (at the time) and wrote a book in which he called him "Uncoachable"

secondly, the lakers would have had to suffer through years of shitty coaches.

They had to pay him 12 mil a season to convince him to come back.

[JamStone]

The Showtime era ended in 91, and we were already back at it in 96 with signing Shaq.

That's like saying the New Jersey Nets were title contenders in 2001 and 2002. The 1991 Lakers making it to the Finals only exposed how weak the Western Conference was during that transition time of the Boston/Lakers 80s until the Duncan Spurs and Shaq Lakers started to emerge in the late 90s.

And the Lakers didn't get back to legit title contention until they hired Phil Jackson. As if Mike Dunleavy, Kurt Rambis, or Del Harris could make any of those Laker teams serious contenders.... ummm, no.

[exstatic]

The Showtime era ended in 91, and we were already back at it in 96 with signing Shaq.

Back? Back to what? The playoffs? Eight teams make it from each conference. BFD. The fact is, if you subtract the Jackson years, there would be a 20+ year championship drought in LA.

I expect Phil to either retire (I read the show transcript. He's not at all wild about the 82 game season) or go wherever LeBron does. He's a talent vampire. He rides each "best player" into the ground and then moves on.

[baseline bum]

Jackson's rich as fuck and doesn't have anything left to prove. I'd run off to Montana too.

[namlook]

It's a contract ploy. Phil already said earlier he was coming back for another year.

[lefty]

It's a contract ploy. Phil already said earlier he was coming back for another year.
This, or he is trying to motivate his players