based upon what was said on KNBR, and what Steinmetz reported, we may be approaching “too late” juncture for Mullin. He’s reportedly a pretty proud guy and hasn’t been extended despite the improvement in his moves since re hiring Nelson. The totality of Mullin’s moves have been average over his GM tenure, but he had definitely trended up since Nelson’s return – could he do as well without Nelson? We may never know. We do know now that he and Baron may have had a deal squelched by upper management and if that’s the case I’d not expect he’d continue under those circumstances. For the Dubs, that begs the question – who do you turn to for GM?

Which brings us to Nelson. While he only has one year left on his deal he’s gonna likely need more than that to catch Wilken’s record. I’ve never seen anything publicly that he was motivated by that but he is only 50-something games away. For those that agree that Nelson has been giving Mullin a big assist in the GM duties it wouldn’t be a stretch to think that the dubs could extend Nelson as GM/Coach with an expectation that his assistant will assume coaching duties while Nelson continues as GM during the final season at some point. That would allow for Nelson to chase his record, allow the franchise a smooth transition from Mullin to Nelson, and from Nelson to Smart, without a long term commitment to Nelson.

Short of that, I think they’re both gone after this season with the real possibility that Nelson could leave before then. In that case, all bets are off – a new GM would want to pick his own coach and …

Our management is the absolute shits. We should have signed Baron for that 3 year deal. He is the BEST thing to happen to our franchise since the TMC days. With him, we really had the potential to beat ANY team on any given night. He is a superstar.

We should have resigned Mullin during the off-season. He will end up with the Knicks – mark my words. We’ll be a perennial lottery team.

We might as well have Al Davis run our franchise. This is a fucking joke.