The Last Season
by Phil Jackson
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 978-0-14-305705-5
To say that Phil Jackson’s 2003-2004 season as coach of the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team was tumultuous is a bit like saying doughnuts are a little fattening. During the offseason, star player Kobe Bryant faced a lawsuit in Colorado about an alleged rape charge. Shaquille O’Neal, the team’s seven-foot center, was unhappy with Bryant’s ball-hogging during the previous season and was becoming quite vocal about it. The Lakers had added two new players for the season; one was Karl Malone, the aging warrior who saw this move as his only opportunity to win an NBA championship. The other was Gary Payton, the combustible guard who had worn out his welcome with his previous team. Add to this volatile mix Jackson’s romance with Jeanie Buss, his boss’s daughter. The book is a chronicle, in diary form, of Jackson’s take on the season that ended in bitter disappointment when the Lakers lost the championship to the Detroit Pistons.
To say that Phil Jackson’s 2003-2004 season as coach of the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team was tumultuous is a bit like saying doughnuts are a little fattening. During the offseason, star player Kobe Bryant faced a lawsuit in Colorado about an alleged rape charge. Shaquille O’Neal, the team’s seven-foot center, was unhappy with Bryant’s ball-hogging during the previous season and was becoming quite vocal about it. The Lakers had added two new players for the season; one was Karl Malone, the aging warrior who saw this move as his only opportunity to win an NBA championship. The other was Gary Payton, the combustible guard who had worn out his welcome with his previous team. Add to this volatile mix Jackson’s romance with Jeanie Buss, his boss’s daughter. The book is a chronicle, in diary form, of Jackson’s take on the season that ended in bitter disappointment when the Lakers lost the championship to the Detroit Pistons.
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