Phil Jackson weighed in on Kobe Bryant's torn Achilles tendon Saturday, and in typical Zen Master fashion, his opinion came with subtle doses of ego and smugness:
It's hard to question Jackson's opinion on anything related to NBA basketball, as his 11 championship rings make a strong case that he's got all the answers. But by implying that Los Angeles Lakers coach Mike D'Antoni could somehow have averted disaster by removing Bryant from the game after he sustained a pair of minor injuries in the early going, Jackson makes a few foolish logical leaps.
First, he has the benefit of hindsight, which has a tendency to make it awfully easy to pass judgment on the decisions of others. It's a logical fallacy to assume that just because one incident preceded another, the first one caused the second.
Jackson's oversimplifying things.
Second, people with far more knowledge than Jackson have long been split on the issue of whether serious injuries are as predictable as the former Lakers coach seems to think. It's certainly possible that fatigue, heavy minutes and preexisting conditions might contribute ...
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