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Phil Jackson

American basketball player, coach and executive (born 1945)

Correspondence, annotated notebooks and portrait silhouettes prepared for research
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 22, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Philip Douglas Jackson is an American former professional basketball player, coach, and executive in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Jackson is a 13-time NBA champion, having won two as a player and eleven as a head coach. His eleven championships as a head coach are the most in NBA history. In 2007, Jackson was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame, and was named one of the ten greatest coaches in league history in 1996. He holds numerous other records as a coach, including the most postseason wins (229), and most conference titles (13).

Editorial summary

“Phil Jackson” enters the record as american basketball player, coach and executive (born 1945). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Phil, Jackson and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2007, 1996—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Phil, Jackson and American.
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Why this record matters

“Phil Jackson” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Phil, Jackson and American provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 22, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2007 and 1996.

Critical limits

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This entry incorporates text from “Phil Jackson” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.