There was a time not long ago when Phil Jackson owned the month of June. His teams made the NBA Finals 13 times in an 18-year span of his coaching career.
Now, of course, Jackson spends his June preparing for the New York Knicks offseason.
The Hall of Fame coach was reminded of that recently when the mother of four of his children called.
“[She] said, 'You know how excited we were to be going into the playoffs. What does this feel like for you?” Jackson recalled last month. “I said it feels like a long summer.