The Last Season: A Team in Search of Its Soul

By Phil Jackson

Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, Sports & Outdoors

The Last Season is Phil Jackson's diary of the 2003–04 Los Angeles Lakers season, his last before stepping away from the team. With stars Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal, plus veterans Karl Malone and Gary Payton, the Lakers were expected to win the title, but the season was overshadowed by Bryant's legal case and his feud with O'Neal. Jackson writes candidly about the tensions, his own frustrations and his relationship with owner Jerry Buss and his daughter Jeanie.