There it is! He had to mention the rings. Honestly, I’m surprised he hasn’t said it whenever he has gotten criticism. I would milk it dry. “Oh sorry, how many rings do you have? Alright well get back to me when you get some championship rings.”
As we all know. Phil Jackson has 11 NBA Championship rings. And in a recent quote via the New York Daily News, he flexed on his critics. Kudos.
If there was any hope from frustrated Knicks fans that an abundance of defeats would alter Jackson’s inflexibility, the team president crushed that very quickly. […] “
That’s what I was brought here for to do – build a system. That’s all part in package of what we’re doing
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“There are critics? Who are these people? Why would people even say that? Do they have 11 championships to show you when they talk about that?” he said. “They got a lot of excuses. That’s the way it is. That discussion doesn’t have to go on.”
“Only people I probably know will be in the interview process. I will reach out to make connections to some people. But I’ve been in this position, in the NBA over 50 years, and I’ve seen a lot of situations where coaches end up coming in without simpatico with the general manager and those things don’t work well,” he said. “So someone who has compatibility with what I do as a leader would have to be in sync with what we do. A lot of your speculations that people have thrown out really have very little bearing on what we do. If you want to save either paper space or speculation, limit your speculations, that’ll help out a lot.”
Now this is part of his hunt for a head coach, there was no mention of Triangle so that’s a good sign.
And no, I don’t have 11 rings. Thought i should mention that.
