Adding to the list of deterrents of Phil Jackson‘s career as a front office executive, the New York Knicks president of basketball operations reportedly fell in and out of sleep during a player's workout earlier last week, according to ESPN college basketball analyst Jay Williams.
“A top-15 draft pick told me the other day, because we were involved in this conversation about Phil Jackson and the Knicks, and he said, ‘Phil Jackson was falling in and out of sleep during my workout,'” Williams said in a guest appearance at ESPN's Outside The Lines with Bob Ley.
"@PhilJackson11 was falling in and out of sleep during my workout." – @RealJayWilliams on a recent recruit he spoke with. pic.twitter.com/Qmh4j0X9Pu
— Bob Ley (@BobLeyESPN) June 22, 2017
Whether Jackson feels extremely confident in his ability to gauge talent and draft players or he's simply too tired to pay attention to the myriad of drills players are asked to run at the Knicks' facility — it remains an inexcusable action to doze off, especially doing so in front of NBA hopefuls who are traveling from city to city to audition for each team.
Players don't invite themselves to work out at facilities, teams do. To fall in and out of sleep so blatantly when a player is putting his career on the line in a pre-draft workout is as asinine a behavior as there's ever been for a front office executive — especially one that's cashing $12 million per year to do the job.
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