Ep. 6: The Triangulation of Phil Jackson

Shattered: Hope, Heartbreak and the New York Knicks

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Sports, Basketball, Business

4.4 • 573 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Phil Jackson's hire as Knicks team president brought incredible excitement to the franchise. Episode six of Shattered looks at the peaks and valleys of Jackson's time at the Garden: the behind-the-scenes story of the Kristaps Porzingis pick, the Triangle, the Phil-Carmelo feud, and the Exit Meeting.

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0:00.0	Phil Jackson,
0:13.2	Phil Jackson, throughout his coaching tenure, he was viewed as almost professorial,
0:19.4	a savant, kind of almost above sports.
0:22.7	13-time NBA champion.
0:24.7	Phil, how is this 11th championship different than say 9 and especially 10 last year?
0:29.7	I don't know if we'd won this game without these fans.
0:32.7	Thank you.
0:33.9	Separate to Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant.
0:36.4	PJ, I've said it once.
0:38.4	I've said it many times.
0:39.3	You're the greatest coach ever coach.
0:40.8	And a living link to the Knicks' last championship winning teams.
0:45.3	Three, two, one.
0:47.4	We have a new NBA champion.
0:50.8	The pey-eating prodigal son was on his way back home to help save the Knicks franchise.
0:57.0	This is what he brought to the table, which was absolutely nothing.
1:00.6	That is the legacy of Phil Jackson as an executive and thank the good Lord that it is over.
1:07.0	This is Shattered, episode six, the triangulation of Phil Jackson.
1:19.9	Ever since James Dolan took control of the Knicks,
1:23.4	Phil Jackson had been the franchise's White Whale.
1:28.2	The quest for Phil began inale. The quest for Phil began in 1999, Dolan's first year's controlling owner of the Knicks.
1:34.8	The team fired his general manager, Ernie Grunfeld, and was thinking of firing his head coach, Jeff Van Gundy.
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