Phil Jackson pressured players to try raw fish and octopus
When Lauri Markkanen ate dinner with then-Knicks president Phil Jackson before the draft, the Bulls player was left with a bad taste in his mouth. And he's not the only player to report issues with the food the "Zen Master" ordered for prospects at dinner.
"He made me taste raw fish, or raw steak," Markkanen told the Daily News. "I didn't like it."
Markkanen's not the only one pressured into eating food he wasn't so sure about. Dennis Smith told the Daily News last year that he was given octopus by Jackson.
"We went out to some restaurant and they had me eat some octopus, like an actual octopus tentacle," Smith Jr. told the Daily News. "First time ever. I wasn't going to try it, honestly. They kind of put the pressure on me to do it."
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