The Last Season: A Team In Search of Its Soul Hardcover - 2004
by Phil Jackson
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
Nine-time NBA Champion coach Phil Jackson knows all about being in the spotlight-about high-profile, high-pressure seasons coaching gigantic personalities through adversity and controversy in the middle of a media hothouse in which every move is another headline, another installment in the soap opera. But nothing-not six championships with the Bulls of Michael Jordan, Dennis Rodman and Scottie Pippen, not three previous championships with the Lakers of Shaq and Kobe-had quite prepared him for the only-in-Hollywood high-wire act of the Lakers' 2003-2004 season.
In The Last Season, Jackson tells the full inside story of the season that proved to be the final ride for this great Lakers dynasty. From its beginnings in the off-season-with the signing of the future Hall-of-Famers Karl Malone and Gary Payton and the enormous expectations it created, and the bombshell news of the felony sexual assault charges against Kobe Bryant, one of the league's marquee superstars-Jackson describes the many challenges that arose during this turbulent season. Juggling enormous egos with enormous sums at stake, managing difficult relationships and public feuds, facing injuries, contract disputes, and team meltdowns, all in the shadow of the Kobe Bryant trial-slash-media circus, Phil Jackson somehow guided his team through to its fourth NBA Finals in his five years as its coach. There, finally, his team ran out of road, a failure Jackson examines with the same deep honesty and wisdom he brings to bear on the rest of this amazing season.
Few seasons in memory can rival this one for drama, and fewer coaches rival Phil Jackson in the ability to write about it with such wisdom and clarity. The combination has produced, in The Last Season, a book of tremendous human drama and timeless appeal, rich in lessons about coaching and about life.
With the honesty and insight that are his hallmarks, one of the most successful coaches in the history of basketball offers his personal account of a season like no other-the extraordinary ride of the 2003-2004 Los Angeles Lakers
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- Title The Last Season: A Team In Search of Its Soul
- Author Phil Jackson
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 304
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher The Penguin Press, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date October 2004
- Illustrated Yes
- Bookseller's Inventory # 38055
- ISBN 9781594200359 / 1594200351
- Weight 1.32 lbs (0.60 kg)
- Dimensions 9.94 x 6.36 x 1.08 in (25.25 x 16.15 x 2.74 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Los Angeles Lakers (Basketball team)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004057260
- Dewey Decimal Code 796.323
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