Golden State Warriors Final Take: Rowell To All, "Let Them Eat Cake!"

But the recent controversies have shut a lot of that down, I think, because the blogs are where the Warriors have some credentialing leeway. The blog-credentialing thing is just being figured out, and it so happens that it is being figured out while the Warriors are extremely sensitive to criticism, and guess what, a good Warriors blogger ought to be criticizing them.

Just wait 'til the Fans of Fitz start their own blog: INSTANT WARRIORS SEASON CREDENTIALS!"

Q: Will you and Don Nelson ever get along?  I'd like to get a feel for your relationship after all of the mud slinging this season.

Kawakami: "Nelson's been at this a long time. I've been at this a long time—less time than him, but still a long time. We're professionals. Even when we used to get along, and we absolutely did, until this season, we knew this was a professional relationship, with the understanding that I could criticize him and he could rip back at me.

Which is what happened this year. It's not my job to make sure I'm on good terms with a 29-53 coach, especially if people around the league are telling me that things are about to blow up again. And it's not Nelson's job to make sure I'm pleased with his work.

I am entertained by him and occasionally frustrated with his cranky answers. He is alternately pissed with me and reasonably entertained by my very specific questions—I think he's a great tactical coach, probably the best I've covered. My problem with him is that he can't help but use the same tangly strategies in dealings with the front office, his players, the media, his contract negotiations... At some point, you just have to stop manipulating people, but Don never realized that.

If he doesn't like that dozens of high-ranking people of the league believe he blatantly undermined Chris Mullin after Mullin revived Nelson's career...and if he doesn't like that I have tons of NBA sources (and Don knows that I do)...then that's the deal. I can live with it."


There's a lot to digest there, but I wanted to share it all.  Eat now, digest later because there's plenty more.

A day that may be remembered forever by Golden State fans in the online community is April 8th, 2009.  A season ticket holder and blogger with the pen name of BritWarriorGSW was one of a few season ticket holders invited to participate in a small meeting with Robert Rowell himself.  The only thing is that Robert Rowell apparently didn't know he was being put on the record.

For the entire account click here.

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