by Amaury Pi Gonzalez

SAN JOSE–So far Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr has that team winning as they’ve won 15 in a row and their 20-2. They’re playing great basketball, the Warriors are the best team in the NBA. Owner Joe Lacob who recently criticized former Warrior coach Mark Jackson about his performance and later apologized for it. Jackson was instrumental in building this current Warriors team.

It wasn’t for Jackson’s coaching that he was fired from the Warriors but there were many personality issues involved. He had issues with Warrior executive Jerry West last season who tried to give coaching tips to the players during practice and Jackson ended up asking West to leave a practice. He also had an assistant coach fired from the team and one of the top reasons that bothered Lacob and that Jackson was in full control of the team.Jackson had a house in L.A. and moonlighted he was a preacher when he wasn’t working traveled to the Southland to preach during last season another issue the Warriors had a problem with.

It was more personality than anything else because Jackson took the team to the playoffs last season he did a good job as head coach and the players liked him too. It would be interesting to know what he’s thinking now with the current success of the team, he’s probably thinking “wow that’s the same team that I had last year that’s now 20-2.”

Jackson now is doing analysis for ESPN for NBA games and it’s a different job doing TV you can criticize anybody when you are coaching your team, your the face of the franchise and good for him I hope that Jackson is successful in broadcasting.

Oakland A’s transition updates: What A’s general manager Billy Beane is doing is incredible, he does a lot of trading in the winter meetings but basically going into spring training 2015 he has a new team, except for Coco Crisp, Josh Reddick, and Derrick Norris. You basically have a new infield. The A’s are going to use Brett Lawrie at third base and the best pitcher the A’s currently have at least as of today Sonny Gray.

The A’s recently let go of Jeff Samardzija who went to the White Sox he was a very good pitcher, it never ceases to amaze me what Beane does and he has a couple of trades left. Were going to have to wait as spring training is still a couple of months away Beane. Is Beane going to trade away some more players. Reddick on the same day when Beane traded former A’s third baseman Josh Donaldson to Toronto for Lawrie was wondering too and the A’s are rebuilding, You think?

Even the players wouldn’t be surprised if they traded Reddick and the players are questioning who their going to have, will they have enough to compete? You have to feel sorry for the A’s fans the people who the spend money to go and see these guys and now their gone. Right now they can’t identify with any player who has played at the A’s for more than three years and it’s very tough to have a following when you have so much changes of personnel every year.

San Jose Sharks update: The Sharks (17-11-4) third in the Pacific and who have won six of their last seven games and who won their third in a row on Saturday night against the Nashville Predators (19-8-2). Despite their recent success they have not been selling out their games at SAP Center but none the less are winning in streaks. The Sharks are a solid team after struggling for stretch earlier this season when they won only two in seven games back in November.

The Sharks have improved so much this month their getting great support to protect their goalie that they got great goaltending from Antti Niemi who stopped all 29 shots for San Jose for the 2-0 shutout Saturday. The Sharks improved to 17-11 are tied with Vancouver with 38 points and are 11 points behind first place Anaheim. The Sharks got goals from Tomas Hertl (7) at 5:01 in the first period and Joe Thornton (8) at 18:26 of the third period.

Amaury Pi Gonzalez does News and Commentary each week for http://www.sportsradioservice.com