Phil Jackson went viral on Saturday after he said that he doesn’t watch the NBA because it’s too political during his appearance on the podcast Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin.
The interview was published on April 5. The Hall of Fame coach revealed that since 2020 he has stopped watching NBA. He added that the changed post-season format was “wanky.”
“They did something that was kind of wanky, they did a bubble down in Orlando and all the teams that could qualify went down there and stayed down there,” he said. “And they had things on their back like, ‘Justice.’ They made a funny thing like, ‘Justice just went to the basket and Equal Opportunity just knocked him down.’ … So my grandkids thought that was pretty funny to play up those names. So I couldn’t watch that.”
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Phil Jackson net worth
Phil Jackson has an estimated net worth of $70 million dollars, according to Celebrity Net Worth.
Phil Jackson age
Jackson is 77 years old. He was born on September 17, 1945.
Phil Jackson relationship
Jackson married his first wife, Maxine, in 1967. They ended their relationship in 1972. He married for the second time in June 1974. However, they also ended up divorced in 2000.
He met the daughter of Lakers owner Jerry Buss, Jeanie Buss, in 1999 and started dating her. They became engaged in 2013. The engagement did not last and they broke it off on December 27, 2016 through a joint statement on Twitter.
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Jackson has five children and eight grandchildren.
Phil Jackson career
Phil Jackson is a retired NBA player, coach, and team executive. He is best known today for his coaching career. He has been inducted into the NBA Hall of Fame. Jackson was also named as one of the top ten basketball coaches in history of the sport.
Phil Jackson family
Both of Jackson’s parents, Charles and Elisabeth Funk Jackson, were Assemblies of God ministers. Jackson and his two siblings threw themselves into athletics.