Shortly before the Los Angeles Lakers defeated the Sacramento Kings in their epic 2001 Western Conference Finals, head coach Phil Jackson talked about how Kobe Bryant had evolved from a pure ...

Jackson's secret, according to Kobe Bryant, was how he studied his wards, analyzing his players in detail. "Phil Jackson was great at that," Bryant said in an interview with Lewis Howes ...

While it's a bold statement, no one knows the two shooting guards like Jackson. He won six NBA Championships with Mike and five with Kobe. During those tense days in the trenches, Phil got up ...

Best-selling author Jeff Pearlman spent 2½ years writing a book about the Kobe Bryant-Shaquille O'Neal-Phil Jackson Lakers ... and the seven others who died, including more than a dozen within ...

When Phil Jackson arrived in Los Angeles in 1999, he inherited a powder keg of potential in Shaquille O'Neal and Kobe Bryant - two supremely gifted players who hadn't yet learned to coexist.

West was instrumental in building the Showtime Lakers of the 1980s and later orchestrated the drafting of Kobe Bryant and the signing of Shaquille O'Neal. Phil Jackson, who was hired by West in ...