Post by Coach on Jun 29, 2007 13:03:21 GMT -5
www.star-telegram.com/sports/columnists/randy_galloway//story/152947.html
The guy is the biggest titty baby in sports.
In hiss-fight between Cuban and Nellie, Mavs are the real losers
Is Mavs owner now crying foul?
Never heard of such a thing, maybe because it'd be rather difficult to find anything this jock-kingdom silly.
Don Nelson is being sued by the owner of the Mavericks for using "confidential information" to beat his former team in the playoffs, and if an arbitrator agrees with this claim, then Nelson might not be allowed to coach again for Golden State.
No kidding? Nellie, huh, knew the Mavs inside and out, and schooled his former team back in early May, touching off the biggest upset in NBA postseason history?
In other local breaking news, it's been raining a lot lately.
Mark Cuban needs to talk to his lawyer. Or the lawyer needs to talk to Cuban.
At best, maybe they can talk each other off the legal ledge, and save the Mavs' organization from pending laughingstock embarrassment.
It's a team now two months into a recovery process from the basketball humiliation of the Golden State series, and part of the healing was a focus on Thursday night's NBA Draft combined with the opening of the league's free agency and trade period.
Unfortunately, however, new details surfaced on a continuing nasty hiss-fight between Cuban and Nelson over compensation, going all the way back to before Cuban bought the Mavs from Ross Perot Jr.
At stake is $6.5 million, meaning it's a high-stakes squabble.
But that's Nellie-Cuban business. And lawyer business. And an arbitrator will decide, probably in October.
After Nelson sued last winter over the money that was part of a deferred payment with Perot, the Cuban camp came up with a counter-suit. This is where it got funny and unbelievable.
According to John O'Connor, Nelson's San Francisco-based attorney, Cuban is claiming Nelson was still under contract with the Mavericks, and therefore he couldn't work for the Warriors.
"What Cuban fails to mention is he quit paying Nellie," said O'Connor, and also Cuban did not attempt to stop Nelson from going to the Warriors last fall as the head coach. (That disagreement is over a non-compete clause in a consulting contract at $200,000 a year, not the $6.5 million deferred payment. But Cuban is also saying that, since Nelson violated the non-compete, he doesn't owe the six and a half mil.)
Then the big laugh came next.
O'Connor: "The thrust of [Cuban's] counter claim is the Warriors beat the Mavs because Nellie had confidential information and he wants to enjoin Don from coaching against the Mavericks."
Or coaching at all until the consulting contract expires in four years.
I closely watched all six games of the Mavs-Warriors playoff series and didn't notice any "confidential information" leading to the downfall of the heavily favored locals.
Nellie's game plan was no secret. It was a simple case of shut down and frustrate Dirk, therefore putting the burden of winning the series on the Mavericks' other players.
The Mavs' problem was that Dirk played awful, and the remainder of the team wasn't capable of overcoming his poor performance.
Did Nelson know his old team, strengths and weaknesses? Does Billy Graham know the Bible? Does a Cajun know gumbo?
In 100 years or more of organized sports in American, has any coach or manager who left a team not used his knowledge of his old club in a competitive matchup?
If Cuban wants to sue someone over the Golden State debacle, why not Dirk?
Those with knowledge of Cuban's counter-suit against Nelson say this verbiage is used in the legal language:
"Not surprisingly, the Warriors had immense success all season against the Mavericks."
Not surprisingly?
Who the hell was not surprised two months ago? Surprised, shocked, disgusted.
Look, the legal question of the money issue is for an arbitrator to decide. Meanwhile, the rest of us have pretty well determined that Cuban has a strong dislike for Nelson, which is his business.
But this "confidential information" silliness drags an entire organization into an area reserved for petty, whining fools.
Over $6.5 million, the Mavericks are facing an embarrassment that will be priceless.
The guy is the biggest titty baby in sports.
In hiss-fight between Cuban and Nellie, Mavs are the real losers
Is Mavs owner now crying foul?
Never heard of such a thing, maybe because it'd be rather difficult to find anything this jock-kingdom silly.
Don Nelson is being sued by the owner of the Mavericks for using "confidential information" to beat his former team in the playoffs, and if an arbitrator agrees with this claim, then Nelson might not be allowed to coach again for Golden State.
No kidding? Nellie, huh, knew the Mavs inside and out, and schooled his former team back in early May, touching off the biggest upset in NBA postseason history?
In other local breaking news, it's been raining a lot lately.
Mark Cuban needs to talk to his lawyer. Or the lawyer needs to talk to Cuban.
At best, maybe they can talk each other off the legal ledge, and save the Mavs' organization from pending laughingstock embarrassment.
It's a team now two months into a recovery process from the basketball humiliation of the Golden State series, and part of the healing was a focus on Thursday night's NBA Draft combined with the opening of the league's free agency and trade period.
Unfortunately, however, new details surfaced on a continuing nasty hiss-fight between Cuban and Nelson over compensation, going all the way back to before Cuban bought the Mavs from Ross Perot Jr.
At stake is $6.5 million, meaning it's a high-stakes squabble.
But that's Nellie-Cuban business. And lawyer business. And an arbitrator will decide, probably in October.
After Nelson sued last winter over the money that was part of a deferred payment with Perot, the Cuban camp came up with a counter-suit. This is where it got funny and unbelievable.
According to John O'Connor, Nelson's San Francisco-based attorney, Cuban is claiming Nelson was still under contract with the Mavericks, and therefore he couldn't work for the Warriors.
"What Cuban fails to mention is he quit paying Nellie," said O'Connor, and also Cuban did not attempt to stop Nelson from going to the Warriors last fall as the head coach. (That disagreement is over a non-compete clause in a consulting contract at $200,000 a year, not the $6.5 million deferred payment. But Cuban is also saying that, since Nelson violated the non-compete, he doesn't owe the six and a half mil.)
Then the big laugh came next.
O'Connor: "The thrust of [Cuban's] counter claim is the Warriors beat the Mavs because Nellie had confidential information and he wants to enjoin Don from coaching against the Mavericks."
Or coaching at all until the consulting contract expires in four years.
I closely watched all six games of the Mavs-Warriors playoff series and didn't notice any "confidential information" leading to the downfall of the heavily favored locals.
Nellie's game plan was no secret. It was a simple case of shut down and frustrate Dirk, therefore putting the burden of winning the series on the Mavericks' other players.
The Mavs' problem was that Dirk played awful, and the remainder of the team wasn't capable of overcoming his poor performance.
Did Nelson know his old team, strengths and weaknesses? Does Billy Graham know the Bible? Does a Cajun know gumbo?
In 100 years or more of organized sports in American, has any coach or manager who left a team not used his knowledge of his old club in a competitive matchup?
If Cuban wants to sue someone over the Golden State debacle, why not Dirk?
Those with knowledge of Cuban's counter-suit against Nelson say this verbiage is used in the legal language:
"Not surprisingly, the Warriors had immense success all season against the Mavericks."
Not surprisingly?
Who the hell was not surprised two months ago? Surprised, shocked, disgusted.
Look, the legal question of the money issue is for an arbitrator to decide. Meanwhile, the rest of us have pretty well determined that Cuban has a strong dislike for Nelson, which is his business.
But this "confidential information" silliness drags an entire organization into an area reserved for petty, whining fools.
Over $6.5 million, the Mavericks are facing an embarrassment that will be priceless.
