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Article: PHIL JACKSON TRADES CBA FOR HOTEL ROOM.(Sports)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- March 26, 1988
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Byline: Tim Layden
At 5:30 in the evening, the telephone rings three times, maybe four. Whatever. Not too many. It was ringing in a hotel room, and because of the size of these things and the volume of your average telephone, three rings means either a) nobody's home, or b) somebody's asleep.
The caller is preparing to drop his receiver when Phil Jackson answers. "What?" he says, in a groggy, disoriented growl duplicated from a hundred other calls in a hundred other rooms.
b) somebody's asleep.
Was asleep.
This hotel room is in Cleveland. For two nights, Phil Jackson lived there. By now, he is on flight to Seattle, where he ...