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Phil Jackson won eleven NBA championships as a head coach, the most in NBA history. Six came with the Chicago Bulls from 1991 to 1998, and five with the Los Angeles Lakers from 2000 to 2010.
Jackson earned the nickname "Zen Master" for his holistic coaching philosophy, which drew on Eastern philosophy and Native American spiritual practices. He cited Robert Pirsig's book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance as one of the major guiding forces in his life, and documented his spiritual approach in his book Sacred Hoops.
The triangle offense is a system developed by Tex Winter that Jackson adopted when he joined the Chicago Bulls as an assistant coach in 1987. It emphasizes spacing, ball movement, and collective decision-making rather than individual isolation plays. Jackson persuaded Michael Jordan to commit to the system in order to counter the Detroit Pistons' Jordan Rules defensive strategy.
Phil Jackson was born on the 17th of September, 1945, in Deer Lodge, Montana. He was raised by two Assemblies of God ministers in a remote area of Montana where no dancing or television was allowed. He did not see his first movie until he was a senior in high school and attended his first dance in college.
Jackson served as president of the New York Knicks from 2014 to 2017, signing a five-year, $60 million contract. He drafted Kristaps Porziņģis with the fourth overall pick in 2015, but his tenure ended with a mutual parting announced on the 28th of June, 2017, following public disputes with Porziņģis and Carmelo Anthony.
Phil Jackson was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2007. He was also named one of the ten greatest coaches in NBA history in 1996, the same year he won the NBA Coach of the Year Award.