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Mindgames: Phil Jackson's Long Strange Journey

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The story behind the man behind seven NBA championshipsPhil Jackson led Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls to six NBA titles before joining the Los Angeles Lakers for the 1999-2000 season. "Mindgames: Phil Jackson's Long Strange Journey provides an amazing inside look at one of the game's great practitioners and his intensely psychological approach to building championship teams.

Veteran basketball writer and author Roland Lazenby compellingly portrays a man with a unique determination to control the competitive environment he inhabits, revealing a clear picture of the Jackson mystique.

Features inside stories about Shaquille O'Neal, Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan, Dennis Rodman, and others. This paperback edition includes an updated afterword by the author.

416 pages, Paperback

First published January 1,2000

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Format
416 pages, Paperback
Published
November 21, 2001 by McGraw-Hill
ISBN
9780071382083
ASIN
0071382089
Language
English

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Roland Lazenby is an American sportswriter and educator.

Lazenby has written more than five dozen nonfiction books, mainly about basketball and American football. He has also contributed articles to magazines and newspapers.

Lazenby's book Bull Run! was named Sports Book of the Year for 1997 by the Independent Publishers Association.

Lazenby studied at Virginia Military Institute and Hollins University, and has been a member of Virginia Tech's Department of Communication and Radford University's School of Communication. A group of students from his media writing class compiled the book April 16th: Virginia Tech Remembers (2007), an account of the Virginia Tech massacre. Lazenby served as editor.

In 2005, Lazenby and Andrew Mager created Planet Blacksburg, a student organization that focuses on new media, journalism, and publishing.

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dorothy167
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April 17,2025
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Mindgames was a biography on Phil Jackson that is written up until 2002. It was a really good book to my book report project on since it had many different events and characters throughout Jackson's life. Phil Jackson won 8 championships (up to 2002) with the Chicago Bulls and the Los Angeles Lakers as a head coach.
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reinbowrie0722
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April 17,2025
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The winningest coach in all of NBA history's biography is one of my favorite books. It shows great detail about the pros and cons of being an NBA coach and lots of interesting information on Jackson's life. Some people say that he was only a great coach because his teams have had so much talent (Kobe Bryant, Shaquille O'neal, Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, Pau Gasol etc) but i think it takes more then talent to build a great team.
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skisim
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April 17,2025
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Hard to follow at times… but provides great insight into P.J’s mind games.
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Ash_Sri
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April 17,2025
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Very disappointing. Lazenby has some writing chops, as illustrated by Michael Jordan: The Life. I expected similar greatness from this book, hoping for some insight into the workings of Phil Jackson's mind. Instead I found a cursory sketch of the man, an already-been-told account that feels like a compilation of old Sports Illustrated articles and box scores.

Don't get me wrong, I mostly enjoyed reading this. I'm an 80s-90s kid who can't read enough about Jordan and the Bulls. And yet I feel let down. Kind of like going to a game where Jordan finishes with 16 points and 6 rebounds. Maybe you saw a dunk or two, but you know you didn't see the man at his best and can't help but feel cheated.
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yuki1014
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April 17,2025
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Phil Jacksons "Mind games"

The first third didn't talk about them and Jackson's own book "Sacred Hoops" was better.

The second third didn't talk about them, and the "Last Dance" netflix docco was better.

The last third did talk about them... At the Lakers.... a bit, and was probably the most interesting part of the book. But the ebook also deteriorated in the last third into strange grammar and spelling mistakes.

Basketball is good. Phil Jackson is interesting. But probably read something else.
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shine_heaven
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April 17,2025
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As all Lazenby's books this one is a long one. But there is a deeper thought behind it.
If one wants to provide a reliable and deep history to has to be a lengthy one.

Awesome book for basketball, leadership and coaching junkies.
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adjoneses
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April 17,2025
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Sve sto niste znali o Phill Jackson u ovoj je knjizi. Plus recepti kako trenirati najbolje kosarkase u istoriji
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