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Published on Monday, May 12, 2008
By Steve Dilbeck
EL SEGUNDO -- Phil Jackson, greatest basketball coach of all-time.
An argument that's been made many times. When there's only a single other coach in NBA history to win as many champions, not a complex case to make.
Yet despite those nine NBA championships - winning three consecutive titles three different times - in many ways it could also be argued, this has been his finest coaching season.
This season, Jackson did not clearly have the best talent in the league. Yet despite modest expectations, and in what probably was the most competitive conference race in league history, he coached the Lakers to the regular-season title in the Western Conference.
He nurtured Andrew Bynum into one of the most promising young centers in the league. When Bynum went down to injury, he worked newly acquired Pau Gasol seamlessly into the starting unit.
He calmly weathered the preseason Kobe Bryant tempest
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