Don Nelson To Resign As Warriors Coach

[MoneyMike916]

Don Nelson will resign as coach of the Warriors, CSNBayArea.com has learned from two sources close to the situation.

The announcement is scheduled to take place on Monday.

Nelson, the NBA's all-time coaching leader in victories with 1,335 wins, will be replaced by longtime Warriors assistant coach Keith Smart, according to both sources. Nelson holds a career coaching record of 1,335-1,063 (.557).

Nelson had two stints as Warriors head coach. He compiled a 277-260 record from 1988-1995 before leaving to coach in New York and Dallas. He returned in 2006 and the next season he led the Warriors to their first playoff appearance since '94, a dramatic upset of the No. 1 seeded Dallas Mavericks.

Tuesday, Sept. 28 is the first practice of the season. The Warriors open the regular season Oct. 27 against Houston.

As a player, Nelson won five NBA titles with the Boston Celtics.

Nelson was scheduled to earn six million dollars this season.

Long-time owner Chris Cohan sold the Warriors franchise to a new ownership group headed by Joe Lacob and Peter Guber in July.

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[CruzDude]

For once ESPN's Marc Stein was right!!!

 

[kingsboi]

I guess this means no more run-n-gun/small ball in GS.

 

[jalfa]

I guess this means no more run-n-gun/small ball in GS.

Dunno, I mean, it's not as if they could do much different with the roster as it stands now. The end of smallball is still a couple of moves away.

 

[kingsboi]

Dunno, I mean, it's not as if they could do much different with the roster as it stands now. The end of smallball is still a couple of moves away.

While true, I don't think we will see a line up of 4 SG's or something like that and one SF playing C.

 

[LWP777]

I'll miss Nellie. I always enjoyed watching him coach. He's probably off to Maui for the rest of his life now. I wish him well.

 

[Bricklayer]

Dunno, I mean, it's not as if they could do much different with the roster as it stands now. The end of smallball is still a couple of moves away.

You know, the funny thing is when you look at their roster anymore, over the summer they managed to bleed off a TON of the smallball personnel. Who knows, maybe that was why Nellie quit -- looked around and saw too many guys taller than him and his ego couldn't handle it. I mean besides the defining 6'3" combo guard/6'3" combo guard Ellis/Curry backcourt, their frontline is now Biedrins, Lee, Udoh, Admundson, Brandon Wright and Dan Gadzuric. Those guys are pretty much all legit bigs. Their SFs are Radmanovic and Dorell Wright, with maybe a little Rodney Carney or Devean George thrown in, so actually a pretty good sized crew there. And its really only the two backcourt guys who still look smallbally.

 

[pdxKingsFan]

He wasn't really expected to be there beyond this season, there were rumors he'd be out at the end of last season... but why right now? Even if he was forced out, the timing seems odd.

 

[jalfa]

You know, the funny thing is when you look at their roster anymore, over the summer they managed to bleed off a TON of the smallball personnel. Who knows, maybe that was why Nellie quit -- looked around and saw too many guys taller than him and his ego couldn't handle it. I mean besides the defining 6'3" combo guard/6'3" combo guard Ellis/Curry backcourt, their frontline is now Biedrins, Lee, Udoh, Admundson, Brandon Wright and Dan Gadzuric. Those guys are pretty much all legit bigs. Their SFs are Radmanovic and Dorell Wright, with maybe a little Rodney Carney or Devean George thrown in, so actually a pretty good sized crew there. And its really only the two backcourt guys who still look smallbally.

I think what I really meant was that they still don't have a centre listed over 7' (although i could swear that biedrins is that tall) and their personnel is still very much suited to running, at least there will still be quite a lot of fastbreaks and less halfcourt sets. Perhaps that's just a remainder of the expectations I had when they acquired their guys, Lee and Amundson playing centre and stuff. But yeah, there will probably not be any mad scientist smallball anymore.

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

:: dances a jig ::

Good riddance; Don Nelson is the worst thing to ever happen to basketball.

 

[William Blake]

Now we'll see if Curry is really THAT good.

 

[Kings Fan Gerard]

RIP Nelly ball

 

[LWP777]

Now we'll see if Curry is really THAT good.

Very good point!

 

[VF21]

For once ESPN's Marc Stein was right!!!

You do know the old saying about putting a million monkeys in front of a million typewriters, don't you?

 

[Insomniacal Fan]

Does anyone else find it frustrating that resign and re-sign have opposite meanings?

 

[Bricklayer]

Does anyone else find it frustrating that resign and re-sign have opposite meanings?

Welcome to English.

Might be the most expressive language in the world for the same reason its the stupidest and hardest to learn -- its a giant mutt composed of half a dozen other languages, hardly any rules that are anything close to absolute, and duplication galore. Its a mess. Handy for nuances of expression if you are a native speaker. Pain in the *** if you aren't.

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

My favorite dichotomy about the English language is how the word barbecue can be a noun, verb or adjective, depending on the context.

 

[Gargamel]

My favorite dichotomy about the English language is how the word barbecue can be a noun, verb or adjective, depending on the context.

That and the F word. (Frug).

 

[cuad]

Well congratulations to the NBA's all time winningest coach. I won't forget the celebrations the warriors had for him after each win just before breaking the record.