Phil Jackson's very good excuse for very bad grammar

Sean Highkin, USA TODAY Sports | USATODAY

It turns out Phil Jackson isn't simply a bad typist. It's just incredibly difficult to send out a coherent tweet when you're wearing 11 championship rings. Following his, um, interesting Twitter debut from Wednesday, the legendary former Los Angeles Lakers coach released a video on AOL explaining his typo-riddled first tweet.

In the video, Jackson is seen sitting at a desk typing out that "11 champ;ipnsikp[ ringhs" tweet, before turning around in his chair and revealing that he is wearing all 11 of his NBA championship rings. Because, in case you'd forgotten, Phil has won 11 rings as an NBA coach. And he has a new book coming that's called Eleven Rings. So he was wearing his 11 championship rings while he was typing his first tweet, which attempted to proclaim that he had 11 championship rings. There's even a hashtag, #GetYourPhil, to go along with the video. It's no #countonkobe, but it's a start.

Speaking of Kobe, the Black Mamba welcomed the Zen Master to Twitter on Thursday. He didn't use the #GetYourPhil hashtag, but he came up with a pretty great one of his own.

By the way, how many championship rings has Phil Jackson won? Does anyone know?