Tuesday, May 10, 2011

A New Chapter

  With his team’s disgraceful demise on Sunday in Dallas…(see Andrew Bynum’s shoulder and Lamar Kardashian) and many saying that he has coached his final NBA game, rumors have already started to swirl that legendary coach Phil Jackson (11 titles as a coach, 2 as a player) has another book in the works.
   I know what you’re thinking. How could a new book possibly equal or surpass the success of his previous two, “The Last Season: A Team in Search of Its Soul.” 2004 & "Journey to The Ring” 2010.
   In the 2004 installment, “The Zen Master” claimed his star guard, Kobe Bryant, was “uncoachable.” And  a year later…came back to coach him.
   But, credibility aside…talk of a new book begs the question...What will Phillip call the book? That remains to be seen, but here are a few suggestions for the chapter titles...

Chapter 1: “The Greatest of All Time” Not a chapter about Luke Walton

Chapter 2: “Being 2nd best is still better than being Bill Wennington” A closer look at Scottie Pippen
Pacifiers not pictured..

Chapter 3: “Super Nanny” Coaching Shaq & Kobe

Chapter 4: “I’m sure the NBA will fine me for this Chapter”

Chapter 5: “The Triangle” Kobe’s wife, Pau Gasol, Pau Gasol’s fiancĂ©e

Chapter 6: “The Biggest Loser” An Ode to Andrew Bynum

Chapter 7: “Becoming famous by marrying a woman famous for being related to a woman who made a porn video” A Lamar Odom Story

Chapter 8: “You can’t smoke peyote, but Ron Artest tried”

Chapter 9: “I don’t have room for another ring.” A how to on avoiding a walk down the aisle with Jeanie Buss

Chapter 10: “The man that paid me $50 million to “date” his daughter” Working for Jerry Buss

Mr. or Mrs. Rodman?

Chapter 11: “Bridezilla” Dennis Rodman the middle years 

Chapter 12: “Not even close” A comparison of Kobe and MJ

Chapter 13: “Being rich doesn’t make you cool” The life of Mark Cuban

Chapter 14: “Wouldn’t Gambling have been More Fun?”
Michael Jordan the baseball years

Chapter 15: “Why the 2011 Lakers didn’t 3-peat” Whatever happened to Adam Morrison
                                             
   Chapter 16: What a well groomed beard, sculpted arms & the ability to form a sentence can do”
Why Derek Fisher had an NBA career

   Chapter 17: “A Real Bad Idea” The 2004 Lakers

   Chapter 18: “A Real Bad Idea II” Kobe’s room service in Eagle, Colorado

   Chapter 19: “A Real Bad Idea III” Anything Lebron says post June 2010

What do you think?
   Chapter 20: “I am not the Colonel” On Second Thought…
                                    
   Final Chapter: “13 championship rings, MJ, Shaq, Kobe”
Why I’m relevant enough to write a book