Phil Jackson coached both Jordan and Kobe and explained why the latter, at 21, might've been even better than MJ at the same ...

"Don't try to do too much yet" - Phil Jackson reveals how he had to rein in a young Kobe Bryant's obsession to dominate ...

"He was willing and able to slip into what I asked him to do" - Phil Jackson on why Michael Jordan was easier to coach than Kobe Bryant originally appeared on Basketball Network. Phil Jackson coached ...

Mitch Richmond shared a funny and intense story about how Kobe Bryant and Phil Jackson would argue with each other during ...

Phil Jackson never liked to compare Kobe Bryant to Michael Jordan. Believe me, I tried everything. Sometimes I’d ask him after random Lakers practices or before games against Charlotte, the team ...

"It was exasperating" - Lakers chronicler says young Kobe Bryant never bought into Phil Jackson's Triangle offense originally ...

Despite winning an NBA championship and sharing the court with a towering legend, a former player expresses regret over never ...

While winning five rings with the Lakers as a prolific coach-player tandem, the relationship between Phil Jackson and Kobe Bryant was fraught with mind games that pushed Bryant to tell himself: &#8… ...

LOS ANGELES — There were early mornings when Phil Jackson would park outside the Lakers practice facility and find Kobe Bryant, his work day already a few hours old, asleep in the car next to ...

Phil Jackson has been remarkably open and frank about his tumultuous first season in New York and his past stints with the Bulls and Lakers in a series of interviews with Charlie Rosen for ESPN, an… ...

The Los Angeles Lakers still have one of the better records in the NBA this season. When the team reeled off eight straight wins to begin the year, many were saying that the Lakers were the heavy ...

Kobe Bryant’s former coach offered a touching tribute to the Mamba after his sudden passing on Sunday. Phil Jackson, who coached Bryant during all five of his championships with the Los Angeles ...