Mind Games: Phil Jackson's Long Strange Journey - Softcover

Lazenby, Roland

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0071382089 ISBN 13: 9780071382083

Verlag: McGraw-Hill Professional, 2001

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The story behind the man behind seven NBA championships Phil Jackson led Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls to six NBA titles before joining the Los Angeles Lakers for the 1999-2000 season. Mindgames: Phil Jackson's Long Strange Journey provides an amazing inside look at one of the game's great practitioners and his intensely psychological approach to building championship teams. Veteran basketball writer and author Roland Lazenby compellingly portrays a man with a unique determination to control the competitive environment he inhabits, revealing a clear picture of the Jackson mystique. Features inside stories about Shaquille O'Neal, Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan, Dennis Rodman, and others. This paperback edition includes an updated afterword by the author.

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Roland Lazenby is the author of numerous sports books including Mad Game: The NBA Education of Kobe Bryant (also available from Contemporary Books) and Blood on the Horns: The Long Strange Ride of Michael Jordan's Chicago Bulls. His work has appeared in The Sporting News, the Chicago Sun-Times, Dunkshoot, and many other publications. He lives in Roanoke, Virginia.

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National bestseller reveals the man behind eight NBA championships

"A must for any serious student of basketball."
--Gary Dretzka, Chicago Tribune

Mindgames follows the journey of Phil Jackson to the top of basketball's coaching hierarchy, a rise that took him from failure and obscurity in the CBA to eight championship rings in the NBA. Along the way he turned multimillionaire players on to meditation, transformed the Michael Jordan-led Chicago Bulls from a one-man show into a five-man team of domination, and, after battling with Bulls management, ended one dynasty to start another on the West Coast.

Sportswriter Roland Lazenby, author of the bestselling Blood on the Horns and Mad Game, reveals the fascinating elements of Jackson's life and mental approach to coaching that have made followers of his players but also have made him--perhaps not surprisingly--unpredictable and sometimes unpopular to outsiders. It is also a detailed basketball story, with entertaining accounts from Jackson's years with the New York Knicks under the legendary Red Holzman to his remarkable eight championships coaching first the Chicago Bulls and then the Los Angeles Lakers. This paperback edition of Mindgames includes a new chapter on the 2000-2001 season, in which Jackson and the Lakers overcame the perils of success and team-breaking player infighting to capture their second consecutive NBA title.

In Mindgames, Lazenby compellingly portrays a man with a unique determination to control the competitive environment he inhabits. A clear picture of the Jackson mystique emerges: philosopher, teacher, manipulator, counselor, psychologist, shaman, champion, master of mind games.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: McGraw-Hill Professional
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0071382089
• ISBN 13: 9780071382083
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 416
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