San Francisco Chronicle THE RIGHT STUFF Warriors welcome a new era John Crumpacker, Chronicle Staff Writer Friday, April 20, 2007 http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2007/04/20/SPGP2PCFNJ1.DTL For the first time in his NBA career, Jason Richardson came to work the day after the regular season ended and faced the happy prospect of more games, four of them at least

Late on Saturday, Dallas formally signed Rick Carlisle to a 4 year, $17 million contract as the new head coach. They had his intro press conference yesterday (as Mark Cuban was out of town until then). Carlisle has a long resume in the coaching field as he was an assistant coach for 12 years before getting his first head coaching job with Detroit in 2001-02. In his rookie coaching year, the

San Francisco Chronicle The champions will be ... from Texas Bruce Jenkins Friday, April 20, 2007 http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2007/04/20/SPGPLPC7531.DTL LeBron James gets his ticket to the Eastern Conference finals. Feeling especially good, Kobe Bryant goes for 78. Joey Crawford heckles Tim Duncan from a courtside seat. And, of course, Mark Cuban throws