NBA coaching legend Phil Jackson is good at self-effacing humor we learned today. The winner of 11 championship rings with the Chicago Bulls and the L.A. Lakers got off to a ROUGH start when joining Twitter a couple days ago. We all had fun at his expense, but Phil Jackson can take/make a joke about Phil Jackson.
His second tweet turned out much better. And offered an explanation as to what went wrong with his first. By the way the Phil Jackson avatar is pretty cool, if I haven’t said so before.
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— Phil Jackson (@PhilJackson11) MSN
Pretty clever, eh? Once again the Zen Master is acutely aware of the human condition. We knew that if he could manage the egos of Michael Jordan, Shaquille O’Neal and Kobe Bryant, he could handle 140 characters. Welcome to social media. By the way Phil Jackson recently liked Jeanie Buss enough to put a ring on it.
But he didn’t like the Brooklyn Nets coaching gig
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