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Mavs-Warriors Pits Coach Against Ex-Boss

Posted May 1, 07 12:53 PM CDT in Sports 

(Newser) – Eighth-seeded Golden State won't just be bidding to eliminate the top-seeded Mavericks when their first-round NBA playoff series resumes tonight in Dallas. In what the Wall Street Journal calls "one of the nastiest personal feuds in professional sports," coach Don Nelson's Warriors can send Dallas and owner Mark Cuban home early.

Nelson coached Dallas from 1997 to March 2005, when he stepped down, ending his contentious professional relationship with the publicity-hungry Cuban. The coach contends that the owner owes him $6.6 million in deferred compensation; Cuban counters that to say Nelson "conjures up folk tales would be an understatement." Game time is 9:30 p.m. Eastern.

Source Wall Street Journal

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Rica Minnis holds up a sign about Golden State Warriors' coach Don Nelson and Dallas Mavericks' owner Mark Cuban before the two teams played in an NBA Western Conference first-round basketball playoff...   (Associated Press)
Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban looks on as his team falls behind to the Golden State Warriors during the second half of an NBA basketball Western Conference first-round playoff game in Oakland, Calif.,...   (Associated Press)
Golden State Warriors coach Don Nelson directs his team against the Dallas Mavericks during the first half of an NBA Western Conference first-round basketball playoff game in Oakland, Calif., Friday,...   (Associated Press)
Golden State Warriors coach Don Nelson talks with Warriors Baron Davis (5) after a technical foul was called against Davis in the second half of their first-round NBA playoff basketball game against the...   (Associated Press)
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