New York Knicks: Kristaps Porzingis Can Redeem Phil Jackson

Redeeming Jackson

With Jackson’s fiance Jeanie Buss being the president of the Los Angeles Lakers, he would love to get one over on his old franchise and future wife. He has already had a few digs and their missed opportunity to draft Porzingis:

"“We knew that [Porzingis] had a lot of talent. We saw that even in the workout with him shooting, and I had some fun with one of the Buss guys and I told him after [our] workout, ‘You guys are going to be sorry if you don’t pick up Porzingis with the second pick.’ They didn’t, we did.”"

More important than bragging rights at home is his legacy. To win as a player, a coach, and as an executive puts him as one of the all-time legends of the NBA in every regard.

Jackson already has 11 rings as a coach of the great Chicago Bulls of the ’90s (six) and Lakers of the 2000s (five) . He also has one as a player as part of the 1973 NBA champion New York Knicks.

One as an executive seems unlikely today, but with the current development trend of Porzingis, it can’t be ruled out in the future.

It was going to take something magical to pull Jackson out of the mess in New York and Porzingis may be it. There are those that will always question his unorthodox techniques but at the end of the day, he already has a handful of rings as a player and a coach.

Adding one as an executive isn’t out of the question, but he’s relying on what has previously been known only as a mythical being.

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Phil Jackson is relying on Kristaps Porzingis.