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Nelson's recent struggles look like a recurring nightmare

By Ric Bucher
ESPN The Magazine

Saturday, December 20, 2008

Being taken down memory lane is usually a pleasant experience, but not when the road leads back to the meltdown of the Golden State Warriors franchise I witnessed firsthand 15 years ago. It was gut-wrenching then, as a beat writer, to cover a team full of such hope and promise and a year later watch it all come apart in such spectacular fashion that the franchise remained radioactive for years afterward. Now that they're one of 30 teams I'm responsible for keeping tabs on, it's no less dispi ...

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