Phil Jackson

You know, a lot of things that coincide with what's best for the team.

And I think that youthful 19, 18, 19-year-old drive can be too selfish for a team to overcome.

I see that the Golden State Warriors are going through something similar to that right now.

with one of their players that's a highly talented kid, but yet can't quite adjust to being a teammate.

Well, I think, you know, over the years we've watched the physical nature of this player who has dominated the game for 20 years and came in as a high school kid and stepped right into, really within three years was,

in a situation where he was making a difference in the basketball games.

definitely a master of the game.

The thing that were disappointing about LeBron were things that turned him into self-reflection, I would call it, or you could see him fold a little bit in the course of a game or in the course of a series.

And the number of series in the finals that he has been losing part of are painful because I know what that's like to have lost in the finals as a player and as a coach.

These are the things that kind of haunt you.

And I think it was kind of haunting.

There was a situation in Cleveland where things got disturbing and he had to challenge his love of the game or his ability to...

join his teammates in full participation.

And there was a situation in Miami that, you know, became obvious in the playoffs with San Antonio Spurs.

And, you know, those are the things that have kind of, you know, remarked about his career where you never saw that happen with Michael Jordan, where, you know, there was a sense of quitting or a sense of defeat.

This is what so many people admired about Michael Jordan, is he took the blows and went right back to the free throw line if he was called a foul.

And did not complain.

And I think we all kind of admired him for the physicality of the game, which was at that time pretty hairy.

The Detroit Bad Boys were at their prime.

And maybe there wasn't as much fighting as there had been in the 70s and 60s, but...