FanHouse Chris Cohan

LAS VEGAS -- There's no doubt it's out there: The Warriors are for sale. It's been written about in the Contra Costa Times and San Jose Mercury News.

Only one problem. On Friday afternoon, the one guy who would likely know about it and be in on it, said it ain't happening.

"The Warriors are not for sale," team president Robert Rowell said.

That was all Rowell offered on the record, but he did say it about three or four different times and ways. Rowell wouldn't address the report that owner Chris Cohan met with Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, but Rowell did offer that Cohan and executives have meetings all the time.

Cohan has owned the Warriors since 1995, when he purchased a majority share of ownership. The Warriors have been to the playoffs only one time during Cohan's tenure.

The Warriors finally got around Tuesday to doing something they probably should have done back in October.

They announced that executive vice president of basketball operations Chris Mullin wouldn't be returning for 2009-10, and that Larry Riley would be the Warriors' new general manager.

The reality of the situation is that most in the Bay Area and around the league -- Mullin included – knew he was a goner back during the preseason. That's when team president Robert Rowell (pictured, right) made it clear to the media that he and Mullin had had a fundamental disagreement over how to handle Monta Ellis' moped accident.