I don't want to sound overly dramatic here, but this video was about a Baron Davis shy of bringing a tear to my eye. That's partially because I find it heartwarming whenever an elderly man devotes his new found lack of fucks to almost anything other than blatantly racist rhetoric. However, it's mostly because it's so rare to find a relationship that was apparently as mutually beneficial as that of Nelly and a delightfully devilish Warriors' team that, beautiful basketball be damned, might have somehow been worth more in entertainment value than the current one. In professional sports, it's more often said than done that a head coach and his players will actively learn from one other, as the former tends to be more stubborn in practice than in theory. However, judging by (and I can't believe I am about to type this) Don Nelson's drip, the students very much became the teachers. Obviously the lesson plans were a bit different, as a rough-around-the-edges group of cocksure players had to be rounded into form as a cohesive team capable of making NBA history as the first #8 seed to knock off a #1 seed and the man who did the proverbial sanding had to be shown the light..er as an impassioned believer in the herbal arts. Still, Don Nelson could not possibly look or sound more like someone who spent the twilight of his career keeping both an open door and an open mind while working conjointly in the same hot-boxed building as Stephen Jackson, Baron Davis, Al Harrington, and Matt Barnes. That video legitimately reminds me of the following scene from 'How High' with the only difference being that Nelly wears the slicked back hair, the beard, the murdered-out suit, the necklace, the Hawaiian residence, and the label of marijuana enthusiast so damn well that he could non-ironically go by 'The Don'. That is no small feat for a white dude in his late 70's, just like it was no small feat for a clean-cut white dude in his late 60's to relate to that reckless ass Warriors' roster in a way that fostered a lifelong relationship.
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