Don Nelson’s failed Knicks stint was biggest regret in his blessed basketball life

Source: New York Post

This was a few years ago, and Don Nelson was on the telephone, calling from Hawaii, where he was deep into one of the happiest retirements anyone has ever had. The voice was relaxed. It might well have been given a little extra mellow by the various pastimes he had merrily engaged in once he called it quits for good, or maybe it was just the tone of a man who could look back on a full life with barely a handful of regrets.