If you’ve been interested enough to follow along, you have a pretty accurate picture of Don Nelson’s retirement.
The former Warriors coach is living on Maui. Regular poker games with Willie Nelson and Woody Harrelson. Large cigars, big bets, and not a care in the world.
Recently, a New York Times reporter dropped by the Nelson household. Let’s just say, we didn’t know the half of it.
For starters, Nelson has grown perhaps the scruffiest beard known to man — it’s as if a tumbleweed was trying to give him a kiss. He jokes that it was his wife’s idea, to get some of the ugly off his face.