<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>Peter Waldman of the Wall Street Journal reports that the relationship between the coach and his former boss is extremely bitter.The crux of it is their legal wrangling: as has been reported, Don Nelson and his lawyers say Mark Cuban and the Mavericks still owe Nelson some $6.6 million. When Nelson signed his original contract with the Mavericks, before Cuban owned the team, he agreed to help the team's cash-flow by taking a chunk of his pay later. Now he'd like that money, but Cuban feels Nelson quit on the team, and isn't inclined to give it to him. Lawyers are on the case, and at some point it will likely go to arbitration.But just as the Nelson-Cuban revival was peaking -- in the NBA's 2003 Western Conference finals -- it started to fall apart. With the Mavericks facing elimination by the San Antonio Spurs, the coach and owner exploded at each other over Mr. Nelson's refusal to fulfill his boss's wish to play an injured Mr. Nowitzki, according to Mavericks officials close to the team's owner.Mr. Nowitzki had suffered sprained ligaments in his left knee in the third game of the best-of-seven series, but, with the Mavericks trailing three games to one, was cleared by team doctors to play again. Mr. Cuban confronted Mr. Nelson in the coach's office and demanded the star forward return to the court, Mavericks officials say.Mr. Nelson refused, insisting that playing the young German with the ligament injury would jeopardize his career. The coach also confided in friends that he had promised Mr. Nowitzki's parents, when the Mavericks signed the young man at age 19, that he would look after the seven-footer in Texas like a son."You're just looking for excuses to lose," fumed Mr. Cuban, according to two people who heard the blowup. Mr. Nelson threw the Mavs' owner out of his office, these people say.There's another angle too. Reportedly Nelson's Golden State contract is set up so that he currently makes less than what he would have made by staying in Dallas. But if the Warriors do beat the Mavericks, Nelson will essentially make up the difference with a bonus.</div>http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=2652144 Man, the things that go on that fans don't know about. Wheo.
This is crazy, and stupid. Don Nelson is about to wipe out the favorites to win the championship. Isn't that enough?
Well Cubes is right in the aspect Nelson quit this team. He even said it himself when Nash was not resigned, he lost interest in coaching. Look at the recent quote of Howard saying Nellie came in wearing golf shoes to practice. You have to question if he was serious and he wasn't. This is why he let Avery run practices and coach the team before stepping down. The team was moving into another direction and did not fit Nellie. On the Dirk injury, I can't really comment much because I don't know much about that injury and how long term it would effect his career. I have to say a lot of fans were mad he did not play game 6 when cleared to play.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BrewCityBuck @ May 1 2007, 03:59 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Man, the things that go on that fans don't know about. Wheo.</div>I have known about this for a long, long time. I didn't read the article, but as I recall from the last one I read, he went after the Warriors after he lost his coaching position with them as well.
Nelson always seems worn out or something. I don't know even in GS that he's that into it. Even though it's a super-charged atmosphere.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Pacers fan forever @ May 1 2007, 02:32 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>This is crazy, and stupid. Don Nelson is about to wipe out the favorites to win the championship. Isn't that enough?</div>damn you're jealous. 6.6 million is not a small sum to just throw away because they beat a team. You can't possibly think Cuban is in the right on this issue.
Cuban should've already paid him long ago...... :dribble: I have heard about this dating back for a while.........
