Bryant: Phil Jackson Underappreciated
Kobe Bryant may be at peace with Mike D’Antoni becoming the next head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers, but he’s not OK with the league’s reluctance to embrace Phil Jackson.
Bryant said he hasn’t spoken to Jackson since the Lakers chose to hire D’Antoni instead of the 11-time championship-winning coach, but he was outspoken about how Jackson and his assistant coaches have been underappreciated for their success.
“It seems like all our assistant coaches when they left here, to even mention the word ‘Triangle’ was like taboo,” Bryant said after the Lakers’ 84-82 loss to the San Antonio Spurs on Tuesday. “I don’t understand it. I really don’t know the answer to that question. It’s very strange, very bizarre. You would think that organizations and other coaches should try to learn from Phil. That’s what you should try to do, right? If you have a coach that’s won more than anybody in our profession, you would think you’d want to study them and analyze them, but they haven’t done it.”
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