Los Angeles Lakers head coach Phil Jackson has led teams to 11 NBA championships and his players are looking pretty primed right now to give him another as they are on an eight-game winning streak while the Western Conference-leading San Antonio Spurs have lost their last five.
Jackson has said that this will be his last season and his players are hoping to give him a twelfth championship to help round out his already stellar credentials. Still, Kobe Bryant says he'll try to convince Jackson to come back for another year, according to CBS Sports, though the probable labor strife this summer is a big barrier to re-entry.
"It's tough because of the lockout situation because we don't know what the heck is going to happen with that," Bryant said, CBS reports. "We know how Phil feels about that, sitting out a year, and all this other stuff or whatever it may be. It's kind of looming on top of us and it's a hard sell."
If Jackson were to decide to coach for another organization, Bryant wished him well: "If he decides to coach again, someplace else, whatever it may be, or if he decides to just stay in Montana and fly fish every day, whatever it is, we just want him to be happy," Bryant said, the site notes.
Still, if the Lakers can give Jackson a championship, Bryant thinks it could be the last everybody sees of Jackson on the sidelines with a clipboard in his hand: "When he told me he was coming back, the reason he gave me for coming back is that 11 is just such a weird number. Twelve is just a nice even number and that should be something that he can walk away with," Bryant said, CBS reports. "Him coming back for 13, I just don't see him doing that."
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