We have been waiting for Phil Jackson to actually reveal something of interest in this volume of “The Phil Jackson Chronicles”, which has been surprisingly free of the scandalous candor that has become his trademark.
Ah, but this is still the Zen Master we’re talking about here. Like any great showman, he waited until Part 7 — the 2015-16 season postmortem — to drop a bombshell about the 2014 Tyson Chandler trade:
I don’t consider hiring Fish a mistake because he worked hard and got the guys to stay as positive as possible while the losses piled up.