Sounds like Phil Jackson wants back in the game...

Nope. Good coach does not = good GM

 

sure. while we're at it, lets sign Dwight Howard. He'd be perfect and is an UFA this summer.

 

Phil Jackson will sign up to coach the Bobcats and waive his fee, just as a favor to his old pal Michael. Just watch.

 

You guys forget that right after we hired Olshey, Jackson put out reports for a couple of weeks that he would love to be the Blazers' Advisor (like Jerry West is now with Golden State, which has really helped them). From that position (basically replacing Kolde) he could have taken GM or Coach a year later. But Allen had just hired Olshey and ignored Jackson.

Jackson wants to work with the Blazers, the team nearest Idaho, where he lives. But we'd need to psychologically ease him in, beginning as Advisor, so that he wouldn't know our true nefarious purpose.

 

Proof or it never happened.

He lives in Idaho? Tell Jeanie Buss that.

 

Ya I remember hearing about that and he also wants to work for the Blazers because of Paul check book. It was my understanding that Paul and Jackson did have a meeting and Jackson asked for to much? Jackson wanted team president\ownership or something like that?

 

You have a short memory. You must be aging fast. Get to a doctor today.

There was no meeting reported as I recall. But maybe you read something that I didn't.

 

Okay I figured out the best way Phil can contribute. We start Jackson at PF and trade Aldridge for Howard. We start Hickson at C with Howard coming off the bench. Claver starts at SF, of course. We trade Batum and Matthews for a backup to Elliot Williams. Our big money of the summer gets spent on Maynor. Stotts grooms Jackson on how to coach. Stotts doesn't catch on that he's getting fired at the end of the season. Now I'm figuring out how to get Jeannie to go for Stotts so we can seal up Jackson to stay here permanently.