Phil Jackson Research Paper

surgery with a specialist in Vail. Apparently, the night before the operation, he had invited a nineteen-year-old woman to his hotel room in nearby Edwards for what he termed ‘consensual’ sex. The following day the woman went to the police claiming that she’d been forcibly raped (Jackson 567). For Jackson, this was a lot more then just Kobe being charged with a life-changing crime, but rather brought Jackson back to a dark place in his life that he will never forget. He explains, “Several years earlier, when my daughter Brooke was in college, she had been the victim of an assault while on a date with a campus athlete.” (Jackson 567). Kobe’s incident hit home with something that Jackson had to personally go through with his family; something he was hoping to put behind him. Even though Jackson was

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Leadership is a complex concept and there are different ways of being a successful leader. Phil Jackson has had a substantial amount of leadership strategies throughout his career being a basketball coach. One of Jackson’s most effective strategies that helped win his eleven NBA titles was his coaching style. He never believed in forcing his will on his players or thinking for his players. “I’ve always been interested in getting players to think for themselves so that they can make difficult decisions in the heat of battle.” (Jackson 37) Throughout the book Jackson emphasizes, “Selflessness was the holy grail of basketball.” (Jackson 74) He further explained that the best offensive strategy was to keep the ball moving among five players to create shooting opportunities and make it hard for the other team to focus on one or two shooters. Even though they had some of the best shot creators in the game, Frazier and Earl “the pearl” Monroe insisted that everybody work together in unity to get the ball to the player with the best shot. If decided to work