Looking for miserable season for the La Lakers following a large offseason, many fans are left wondering what could have come of Phil Knutson coaching the team. Certainly, at the very the very least he's finally telling all of us why he didn't end up back in LA.
For the tour to promote his new book Eleven Bands: The Soul of Financial success, Jackson showed up in the Tonight Show with Jay Leno to speak about the Michael Jordan versus Kobe Bryant discuss, and give his side of the story on why he didn't finally end up coaching the Lakers.
Much for the story was told the moment it happened, Jackson recalls talking so that you can Jim Buss for an extended time frame and telling Buss that he was positive that they could coach the roster they will had put together.
Jackson requested the weekend to think about it, but late on that Sunday night, Jackson got a telephone from Lakers general forex broker Mitch Kupchak telling him that your team had decided to use Mike D'Antonio.
The judgement caused a rift between Jim and his sister (and now Jackson's fiancé) Jeanie, the two not speaking to each other for an extended length of time.
You know the account from there. Los Angeles was barely in a position to squeak into the playoffs which includes a 45-37 record, they were swept through the San Antonio Spurs inside first round, and what "fire" "Mike" and "D'Antoni" were applied to some combination of at least 482, 102 sentences during the next two days.
He's currently advising your Detroit Pistons with their visit a new head coach, but his role inside the NBA beyond that point continues to up in the discuss.
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