SF Examiner: Uphill battle awaits Golden State Warriors
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Art Spander in Mark Jackson, Monta Ellis, Warriors, articles, basketball
By Art Spander
Special to The Examiner


They are the NBA’s mystery team, led by a coach who never has coached, constructed upon two guards with divergent problems, and opening with games that may get them in headlines and perhaps into a hole from which the Warriors can’t escape.

Their past is haunting, 16 seasons of the past 17 unable to make the playoffs. Their future is promising, if the words of Mark Jackson — a man of many words as a TV commentator before switching jobs — are to be believed.

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