Lakers coach Phil Jackson says that both winning and money will be huge factors in determining whether he returns.

Jackson spoke on Saturday night about his future in the wake of rumored contract extensions for Pau Gasol and Kobe Bryant.

"They have a great chance to be a very good team for a while, and Drew [Andrew Bynum] is locked in, and that's a great start from the standpoint of putting a great roster together that has some commonality, that has played together, it'll give them a real good basis. They have a couple other things that they have to get done and then I'm going to feel good about it," Jackson said.

He is making $12 million this season, making him the highest paid coach in the league.

Jackson said he will not decide on his future until June or July and acknowledged that repeating as champions would improve his chances of staying.

"Oh sure, it really does. But it's not a definite that I would continue even if we would be," he said. "If things didn't go well and we didn't win, that would obviously be something that would be, you know, you think maybe it's time for someone else to look at this job and carry this team forward from there.

"That's possibly not going to happen that way, but just winning it outright doesn't mean it's a natural to come back and coach this team. I just don't see that as a natural thing. A lot of it has to do with the direction the league is going, the direction the ownership wants to go in. People are cutting costs all around the league, and coaches are obviously going to take a cut too, so they may not even want to hire me. They may want to save some money."