Los Angeles Lakers Executive Vice President Jeanie Buss can’t be happy with her team’s performance within the playoff series against the Oklahoma City Thunder. While the Lakers seem to have clawed back for a 3-2 lead within the series with two games that are left to play, uninspired performances and underwhelming games by star Kobe Bryant have prompted whispers that perhaps the Lakers are aging and in need of a tune-up. The head Coach Phil Jackson likes to have some challenges, but when superstar players start to lose interest (as they did when he coached the Chicago Bulls at the end of the Michael Jordan era), Jackson has looked to many greener pastures. Will Phil Jackson leave the Lakers, even though Jeanie Buss is supposedly his girlfriend?
Jeanie Buss is realistic about Jackson and also the Lakers
Jeanie said that if the Lakers win, Jackson likely will return meaning a three peat in 2010-2011, as outlined by Yahoo! Sports. He surely doesn’t need money and isn’t looking for any mortgage loan restructuring right now. But clearly, Jackson is a head coach any team would be happy to have patrolling the sideline. Buss acknowledged as much, saying “I know Phil will be coaching next year, somewhere. Whether it’s here or someplace else I do not know. … There’s going to be a lot of good jobs that come up this summer.”
Could Jackson leave Jeanie Buss for LeBron James?
It really might happen differently than you think. Jackson could very possibly, as outlined by Yahoo, leave the Lakers for the Cleveland Cavaliers. That might happen if LeBron James re-signs with the Cavs. Cleveland might win the championship and the players are hungry, but haven’t put the pieces together yet. That sounds like a challenge Jackson might be up for. Then again, Jeanie Buss could possibly be using the media to make an effort to force Phil Jackson to commit. Women like men who’ll commit.
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