What are those cliches I love to banter around? Like "everything that is old is new again?" Or, "what goes around, comes around?"

Well, back in 1993, having been so ensconced in baseball and football-never dreaming where it would lead to today-I decided to go in on Golden State Warriors season tickets with my friends Mark and Richard.

I did this because I had never been a hoops fan really, and doing baseball and football analysis cost me my local team affiliation at the expense of objectivity.

But, I thought I could be a Warriors fan, and root for them, and watch and learn the game. I thought it would be fun.

Plus, the Warriors in that time had a bunch of great young talent, like Tim Hardaway, Mitch Richmond, and Chris Mullin. And, they just drafted the best young guy around in Chris Webber, and in a year would also add Billy Owens to their stable.

So, well, and, truthfully, I did not look up the dates of any of the above, as they all mash together in a soup of disappointment with respect to my brief tenure as a Warriors fan.

But, somehow, I remember vividly as the Warriors won their first seven games that Chris Webber year including beating the defending champ Knicks.

And, well, we divvied up our tickets via lottery, and my first choice (Michael Jordan and the Bulls was the first to go, and I missed) was seeing the Miami Heat and their newbie, Shaquille Oneal.

Well, the Warriors actually did win that game as Shaq fouled out with around a minute to go, and the Warriors down by five. But, somehow, the final minutes took forever to play, in a game of nerves and accuracy and unbelievable play that had everyone in the stands on their feet.

I am loathe to say it was the most exciting single sporting event I ever attended, but, well, that game, which the Warriors won on a blocked shot that several suggested was goaltending, by Webber.

Shortly thereafter, Webber began to dis then coach Don Nelson, saying how he was "disrespected," and from that the Warriors season went down the crapper in its entirety.

Webber won the battle and Nelson was fired, always a bad sign in business management, when an employee controls the fate of the boss.

And, well, the Warriors tanked it from then on, deteriorating to a lower low a few seasons later when Latrelle Spreewell choked coach PJ Carlisimo so infamously.

But, before that, the die was cast for me. Angry at the pettiness, and waste of such a great young talented team losing every wheel it had, by the end of the '93-'94 season, I had enough and gave up my share of the season tickets as well as my brief foray as a hoops fan.

But, oddly, I heard on the news Wednesday that the Warriors GM, now the same Chris Mullin I saw play back when, was close to signing Webber back. And, incredibly, Webber will be playing under that same disrespecting coach in Don Nelson.

What is it that any of this troika has learned over the past 12-13 years that now makes them think they can achieve success? I truly don't know, although I am happy enough to think age and maturity and perspective played the largest part.

But, for me, all it does is bring back the bad vibe of that year of frustration. Because, well, my lesson was and still is learned. And, well, my time as a Warriors fan is over.