Lakers coach Phil Jackson has spent one more season with the team than he did with the Bulls, but he still wants to represent both clubs when he enters the Hall of Fame.

"My own personal (opinion," Jackson said, "I'd have to have a jacket with both sides -- one side Lakers, the other side Bulls."

He won six titles with Chicago and has four with Los Angeles thus far.

Spurs coach Gregg Popovich has softened his stance on the February 2008 trade between the Lakers and Grizzlies that sent Pau Gasol to Los Angeles.

Once a harsh critic of the deal, which many perceived to be lopsided, Popovich now says that Memphis made out good in the deal.

"They gave up a great player but it helped them extend the franchise's success into the future," Popovich said. "It's shown that they've done a good job. Whatever they were thinking a couple of iterations ahead at the time has paid off for them."

The Grizzlies received Kwame Brown, rookie Javaris Crittenton, the rights to Marc Gasol and first-round picks in 2008 and 2010.

"What they did in Memphis is beyond comprehension," Popovich said at the time. "There should be a trade committee that can scratch all trades that make no sense. I just wish I had been on a trade committee that oversees NBA trades. I would have voted no to the L.A. trade."

Lakers coach Phil Jackson is one win shy the team's all-time coaching record.

"There's a generation of people that identify with the Showtime Lakers of the '80s and similarly with the '90s Chicago teams," Jackson said.

"I don't know if you can say we're the dominant team of this decade, but we're pretty close. So I'm sure there's a whole generation of kids who see me only as the Lakers coach. They're not familiar with the Bulls at all."

The Lakers' victory over the 76ers on Friday night moved him to within a win of the record. Jackson is 532-253 with the franchise, just shy of Pat Riley's 533-194 mark.

"It's a matter of just being here and showing up to work," he said.

The Lakers will face the Celtics on Sunday in Boston.

Lakers guard Kobe Bryant would like to see the NBA return to their "old-school" defensive rules.

"I'm old-school," Bryant said Friday night.

"I'd like for us to go back to the old rules," he said. "Get rid of the 'crutch defense,' known as the zone defense, and have guys guard man-to-man and stuff like that [and allow] hand checking and all that. I think that's better basketball."

The NBA started to allow zone defense at the beginning of the 2001-02 season.

Hand checking was first outlawed in 1994 and shortly thereafter, in 1997, defenders were prohibited from using forearms to guard against players facing the basket.

An advertisement featuring Kobe Bryant and LeBron James includes a gun reference.

The ad, just inside the inside cover of this week's Sports Illustrated, appears the same week Gilbert Arenas and Javaris Crittenton were suspended for carrying firearms to the locker room.

The players appear along with the slogan, "Prepare For Combat," is a quote from each player showing how tough he is.

Bryant's blurb says: "I'll do whatever it takes to win games. I don't leave anything in the chamber."

Lakers forward Ron Artest will return to the court on Tuesday night against the Wizards.

Artest took part in the team's shootaround.

He was suffering from the intestinal flu on Monday, which caused him to miss the Lakers' practice and trip to the White House.

Artest is also dealing with plantar fasciitis in both feet.

President Barack Obama welcomed the defending NBA champion Lakers to the White House on Monday.

Obama said no team exemplified excellence on the court more than the Lakers did last year when they won their 15th NBA title.

Lakers forward Ron Artest wrote on his Twitter page over the weekend that he has plantar fasciitis in his left and right foot but will keep playing.

"I didn't know what was wrong with me," Artest told the Los Angeles Times. "I've probably had it a lot of times in my career, but I never, ever sat out with it. I know guys who have actually sat out with sore feet, but there's no need for me to complain about it.

"I just don't like excuses. That's it. No excuses. I don't want nobody saying, 'Oh, Ron Artest has got plantar fasciitis, so that's why he didn't play a good game.' No, I didn't play good or I didn't do what I did because that's just what happened. No excuses."

Lakers coach Phil Jackson suggested that Artest's foot ailments stem from the sneakers he wears.

"I called his shoes concrete boots for about the last month," Jackson said in reference of Artest's Peak shoes, made by a Chinese company. "Those shoes look like they're made for the Hudson River."

Jackson added that he hasn't had a conversation with Artest about sitting out, but admitted that it may come to that in the future.

Lakers center Andrew Bynum will be fined an undisclosed amount for missing the team's charter flight from New York to Toronto on Saturday morning.

The fine is believed to be $250.

"I slept in," Bynum said Sunday. "I put my bags outside and then I went to sleep."

Bynum said he woke up at 9:15 a.m. to put his bags outside his hotel room to be picked up by an attendant. He then went back into his room and fell asleep until 11:15 a.m., leaving him stuck in New York.

"His bags made it to Toronto, but he didn't," Lakers coach Phil Jackson said.

Lakers forward Ron Artest doesn't think the Cavaliers would be a playoff team without LeBron James.

"Actually I thought about that [Thursday]," Artest told CBS Sports.

"If you take LeBron off that team, no. They're not. They're nothing. Not that they're nothing, they're still human beings. But you take him off that team, no. I guess that's why they got me, to take him out of the game. [Thursday] it didn't work. They got us this year, so all we can do is move on from that and see what happens in the playoffs."

Artest, a Queensbridge native, added that his hometown Knicks need some star power.

"No disrespect to Cleveland, but we need some star power here in New York," he added. "We need some legit star power, so I can come down and beat up on 'em. We still need some star power here in New York. We need one of those big-time players to come here and get a great team, and when the Lakers play the Knicks, we beat 'em by like 40 or 50 points. It would be great hopefully one day to see a New York-L.A. championship. I don't have any power to do that, but it would be nice."