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There’s no doubt in my mind that Phil Jackson will win his fifth NBA championship with the LA Lakers and NBA record eleventh world championship overall this season. Jackson is the greatest coach of all time and barring a serious injury to Kobe Bryant, the Lakers will hang another championship banner up in Staples Center come June. No one can dismiss the power of the Carmelo Anthony and Chauncey Billups led Nuggets, or the addition of Caron Butler to the Mavericks, or the game changing ability possessed by the king, Lebron James, but at the end of the day, none of those teams have Phil Jackson. Jackson dominates the premiere coaches in the league such as Greg Popovich and George Karl, and in the playoffs he prepares his teams mentally and physically better than any other coach in the history of the game. I know picking the Lakers to win the NBA Finals once again this year, is not a bold prediction by any means, but even with the phenomenal roster additions such as Antawn Jamison on the Cavs and a rejuvenated Mavs team, one can safely say that due to Jackson’s brilliance, patience, and experience, the Lakers are once again the team to beat and there is no one around that wouldn’t take Phil Jackson in a seven game series or coaching a seventh game over any other coach. I look forward to a competitive and exciting playoff push over the next month, but in the end Phil Jackson’s bunch will prove to be better than the rest, due solely to the success of the head coach who has the most NBA titles in the history of the game.
March 3, 2010 at 9:07 am |
you rock, keep it up