Comments on: ‘The Last Season,’ A Dose of Truth http://www.newuniversity.org/2005/03/features/the_last_season_a108/ Wed, 23 May 2012 07:23:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Roland Lazenby http://www.newuniversity.org/2005/03/features/the_last_season_a108/comment-page-1/#comment-125 Roland Lazenby Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:41:16 +0000 http://newuword1.thomasjbaker.net/?page_id=3488#comment-125 Phil Jackson has his accomplishments, but he also has a track record for telling vicious lies. The lie he did about assistant coach Johnny Bach in Chicago is one of the outrageous acts in NBA history. I have Jackson recorded telling that lie quite artfully, just as I have established proof of the lie on the record. There's a side of Jackson that is special. And there's a side of him that's absolutely venal. He was not truthful in "The Last Season." It is not a book to be believed. The number that Jackson does on Kobe Bryant in this book is shameful. When Jerry Buss fired Jackson in 2004, he did him a huge favor. As Tex Winter, Jackson's mentor, told me many times, Jackson's ego is such that he needs to be humbled, the problem being that he so dominates his players and assistant coaches mentally that that humbling is not a common experience in Jackson's life. Let's hope Jackson has outgrown his capacity for low acts. He is a special coach. But it's a challenge for him to live up to the better angels of his nature. Roland Lazenby author of Mindgames, Phil Jackson's Long Strange Journey Phil Jackson has his accomplishments, but he also has a track record for telling vicious lies. The lie he did about assistant coach Johnny Bach in Chicago is one of the outrageous acts in NBA history. I have Jackson recorded telling that lie quite artfully, just as I have established proof of the lie on the record. There’s a side of Jackson that is special. And there’s a side of him that’s absolutely venal. He was not truthful in “The Last Season.” It is not a book to be believed. The number that Jackson does on Kobe Bryant in this book is shameful. When Jerry Buss fired Jackson in 2004, he did him a huge favor.

As Tex Winter, Jackson’s mentor, told me many times, Jackson’s ego is such that he needs to be humbled, the problem being that he so dominates his players and assistant coaches mentally that that humbling is not a common experience in Jackson’s life.

Let’s hope Jackson has outgrown his capacity for low acts. He is a special coach. But it’s a challenge for him to live up to the better angels of his nature.

Roland Lazenby
author of Mindgames, Phil Jackson’s Long Strange Journey

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