By Geoff Lepper
48minutes.net

[Ed. note: I realize this feature has not been as consistent or timely as I would like, so I’m going to try to slim it down from here on out so you can do your one-stop Warriors media shopping here every morning.]

PRINT MEDIA
Contra Costa Times (Marcus Thompson II): The lead lays it out in no uncertain terms: “Coach Don Nelson said before Wednesday’s game that the relationship between the Warriors and forward Stephen Jackson is irreconcilable and that his departure is imminent.”

For the sake of writing about something new, one can only hope.

San Francisco Chronicle (Rusty Simmons): I think “Do I look hurt?” needs to go down next to “I know it ain’t me” in the pantheon of great Stephen Jackson-as-a-Warrior quotes.

Conta Costa Times (Gary Peterson): Honestly, this is just plain mean to poor Warrior fans: A look ahead to all the ex-GSWs playing in the 2011 All-Star Game.

Indianapolis Star (Mike Wells): Mike got an inadvertent chuckle out of me when he discussed the fact that Jackson “thought he was going to be part of a playoff team every year after the eighth-seeded Warriors upset top seed Dallas in the first round of the playoffs in 2007. . . . It turns out that was the last time the Warriors made the playoffs.”

C’mon, now: Anyone who thinks playoff appearances for the Warriors will come more often than Halley’s Comet is just plain crazy.

BLOGOSPHERE
Inside The Warriors/Contra Costa Times (Marcus Thompson II): All the quotes you could want from Indiana, highlighting the disconnect between Don Nelson’s facts and Stephen Jackson’s.

Golden State Warriors/San Francisco Chronicle (Rusty Simmons): Reports from the half and at the end of the evening. Great quote from Jackson on the lack of ball movement: “I’m not going to say it was done intentionally. I think we just need to think more about making the open pass. Sometimes we forget about it. … We’ve got to be more consistent with understanding that everybody on this team can score, and we have to have as much confidence in our teammates’ shots as we do in our own.”

Talking Points/San Jose Mercury News (Tim Kawakami): I agree with Tim on one count: Stephen Curry ABSOLUTELY knows what a f**ked-up situation he wound up in when the Timberwolves passed on him (although I’m not sure he would have been any happier with directionless Minnesota) and Golden State snatched him up. That doesn’t mean he can’t also be a legitimately “nice” guy, someone diplomatic enough not to state every feeling they have in their head (Possible sample: “Why the f**k won’t anyone pass to the open man?”) every moment they have one.

Warriorsworld.com/Examiner.com (Ray Yocke): I have a feeling Ray is not getting invited to Bobby Rowell’s holiday party: “The Warriors knew the deal with Jackson coming in; his attitude was the reason he was available in the first place. Outside of Robert Rowell, everyone seemed to know that this was a fling, not a marriage.”

Golden State of Mind: I have a couple quibbles with the summation, especially the idea that the absence of Andris Biedrins and Ronny Turiaf was the No. 1 reason for this loss. Biedrins was playing some TERRIBLE defense BEFORE getting hurt (opponent head-to-head PER, according to 82games.com: 23.1, team D improves by 5.7 points per 100 possessions with Biedrins on the bench).

Warriors Works: Touting the works of Anthony Randolph.

Warriors Wire/Santa Rosa Press Democrat (Jared Cowley): I’ll give Jared credit for his optimism, but the idea of the Warriors winning two of the first three on this trip was always far-far-far-far-fetched.

WEB MEDIA
Yahoo! Sports (Adrian Wojnarowski): Adrian covered the Cavs-Magic game, and has an interesting aside about troubled Cleveland guard Delonte West.

“Still, this is a business, and the Cavs are here to win — not save wayward lives. They’d move West in a heartbeat. Cleveland is still intrigued with Golden State’s Stephen Jackson, and sources say general manager Danny Ferry is monitoring the availability of some outside-shooting power forwards — stretch 4-men — to complement Shaq.”

If it’s really true that the Cavs are willing to pull the plug on West’s career in Cleveland, then the framework for a Jackson deal that doesn’t involve Zydrunas Ilgauskas and Ronny Turiaf becomes even easier to discern: West (whose minutes are being absorbed by Anthony Parker and potentially Jackson) and Jamario Moon (who will be redundant with Jackson on board) for Jackson. The Warriors don’t get big cap relief until 2011, but that should hardly be a concern given that no free agent from the celebrated class of 2010 will take an offer from Golden State (unless it wildly overbids the market; see “Maggette, Corey” for more details.)

CBSSports.com (Ken Berger): Also on the same Delonte West-to-the-Warriors tip: “No team is more desperate to trade a disgruntled player than the Warriors with Jackson. At some point, I submit, no team will be more desperate to acquire him than the Cavs. They’ve already begun rationalizing it. . . . A clear-minded, effective West would be a far better option than another chemistry experiment with Jackson as the key ingredient, but that does not appear possible.”

Examiner.com (Mike Massa): Wondering what happened to the Warriors’ passing game.

NBA.com (John Oehser): Noting that the Pacers are so beat up, they had to cancel today’s practice due to a lack of healthy bodies.

TWITTER
@StephenCurry30: Promise to all the Warrior fans…we will figure this thing out…if it’s the last thing we do we will figure it out

@timkawakami: Or be traded in 2012-13… RT @StephenCurry30 Promise to Warrior fans…we will figure this thing out…if it’s the last thing we do…

@timkawakami: NOBODY suffers the devastating injuries Warriors do! … Except Indy w-TJ Ford, et al, Minn w-Kevin Love, LACs w-Blake Griffin… (on & on)

@timkawakami: NOBODY has the great young talent the Warriors do! … Except Portland, Sacramento, Clips, OKC, Minny… (on and on)

@timkawakami: NOBODY makes the ridiculous excuses that the Warriors do for constant, pitiful losing! … On that, there are no exceptions

@gswscribe: It’s sad when you walk away thinking Warriors played OK on D. Then the players even say so. BUT THEY GAVE UP 108 POINTS! How low is the bar?

AUDIO-VISUAL
CSNBayArea.com: Marc J. Spears of Yahoo! Sports, talking about the Stephen Jackson situation. On an interesting note: Spears apparently was called by a Warriors representative, who claimed he manufactured the anonymous player quotes in this story.

I talked to a Warriors player, off the record, on Tuesday after Spears’ piece came out to try and gauge how accurate the reporting was, and the player tried to sell me the exact same line, saying that the quotes “weren’t true.”

I’ve got to say that I don’t buy it. When it comes to credibility, I’ll take Spears’ over the Warriors’, 101 times out of 100.

Don Nelson’s postgame frivolities:

KNBR (Ralph Barbieri and Tom Tolbert): It’s the Don Nelson show!

Warriors.com: Highlights package.

FoxSports.com: Earl Watson talks about beating the Warriors.