Stephen Jackson vs Don Nelson: Round 37
by Marcel Mutoni / @marcel_mutoni
Prior to the start of the season, a disgruntled Stephen Jackson made it perfectly clear that nothing would make him happier than playing for a team other than Golden State — one of Jackson’s prefered destination choices, God knows why, was New York.
The Warriors’ inability to find the forward a new home — coupled with the Warriors’ horrific start this year — has upset the Jackson camp so much, that they’ve basically began to wage war against head coach Don Nelson.
Here’s Mark Stevens, Jackson’s agent on the offensive, via ESPN:
“No one trusts Don Nelson,” Stevens said. “When Nelson was in Milwaukee, Wayne Embry trusted him and brought him in, and he betrayed Embry. In Dallas, Mark Cuban took damn good care of him and his son [Donnie Nelson Jr.], and he betrayed Cuban. In Golden State, Chris Mullin hired him and trusted him and Nelson backstabbed him by reaching out to president Robert Rowell and blaming Mullin for everything that was going wrong with the Warriors.”
“I’m disgusted with the quality of Nelson’s coaching and with the lack of trust his players have in him,” he said. “Nelson is the winningest coach in NBA history to never have coached in the NBA Finals, let alone won a championship. Yet he keeps getting jobs despite being 69 years old…I just want him out of there now,” Stevens said. “It doesn’t matter where. At this stage, something has to be done. It can’t get any worse.”
Things are really bad in Warriors-land; Corey Maggette says the team is in chaos, and Jackson called last night’s loss to the woeful Kings “another beat-down.”
The Jackson camp may have to stick around quite a while longer. After all, what NBA front-office would want to deal with this type of headache? To say nothing of the $35 million Stephen is owed over the next four seasons.
With a poor judgement in regards to bball skills and soft skills, naturally they will hire a coach like Nelson, and keep players like Elis and Jackson in leading rolls. You wouldn’t see these guys mouth off in San Antonio, LA, or Salt Lake… because they are kept in line!
Why would this organization think that Nelson and Jackson would be good soldiers throughout rebuilding? Neither of them has ever shown that bent.
I’m not sure where you’re from Allenp, but I’m in the middle of all of this.
It’s a pathetically run franchise. Seriously.
Cohan is now the laughingstock of the League by easily jumping over Sterling and Dolan.
Bobby Rowell is easily a horrible GM and Vice President of Operations type guy who makes MJ look like Jerry West in the office.
Larry Riley is Nellie’s crony.
I mean, I could keep going and going.
Go back to the all star game held in Oakland and watch Cohan get booed off the court.
They did Mully dirty but making him the goat. Hell we can’t even retire our former good players jersey’s because Cohan is so cheap.
It was appalling to hear Rowell claim he’s a “business buy” during a season ticket holder call and sign Jackson to an unneeded extension because he was flexing muscle.
Too much to be stated.
I don’t know the Warriors history, but I know that Nellie has had the same results at EVERY stop in his long career. Every stop.
He enthralls people with small ball, has some surprising success, but never actually gets to the Finals, and then he turns sour and starts feuding with management. I mean, the dude feuded with Mark Cuban and his own damn son!
Apparently Nellie is proof that talent and results trump “character” when it comes to coaches as well as players.
I thought they got rid of Mullin because he and Nelson were feuding and Nelson had the owner’s ear?
However, it’s been pretty well documented that Rowell was going to flex power and basically move Mully on out. Rowell is just a douche. Mully didn’t want to re-up Jax (gee, go figure) and then Jax went to Rowell mano y mano. That got Rowell’s head all big and full of self esteem. Seriously, re-reading the events of the past two summers is sickening.
Look at last night at the end of the 3rd qtr with .4.
That’s all you need to summarize the Warriors season.
Everyone involved is going to come out scarred in the public’s/media’s image.
Well, almost everyone. Some people are immune, like Kobe Bryant.
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