NBA opening night — Are you ready?

OAKLAND — What's done is done.

The ugliness that marred the last couple games of the Jazz's second-round playoff series with Golden State last May is history, in other words, in the minds of those who advanced to the 2007 Western Conference finals — and who just happen to visit the Warriors tonight to kick off their '07-08 NBA season.

"It's not a big deal," Jazz point guard Deron Williams said Monday, when the Jazz practiced before catching a flight to Oakland for tonight's opener. "I don't think there's any bad blood."

So forget ex-Jazz guard Derek Fisher, now with the Los Angeles Lakers, falling hard to the floor after running into the elbow of Warriors guard Baron Davis — far away from the ball — late in Game 4 of the series.

Never mind that Jason Richardson, now playing in Charlotte, clothes-lined Mehmet Okur to keep the Jazz center from finishing an easy dunk in the final seconds of that same game.

Don't fret over Matt Barnes catching Jazz forward Matt Harpring in the face and sending the Jazz forward to the floor following a layup attempt in Game 5, or Barnes shoving and grabbing the arm of Jazz scoring leader Carlos Boozer in the series-ending game.

Flagrant fouls? Whatever. Technicals? Old news. Ejections? Yawn.

"They didn't do anything on purpose," Harpring said. "I just think when you're playing hard, and you're playing the game, things happen."

"It's basketball, man," Williams added. "Fouls happen."

If anything, Jazz players suggest, it's the Warriors who have some things to remember, and build on, from the series.

Like the Jazz winning the best-of-seven affair in a fairly easy five. Like the deliberate Jazz dictating how things were played, not the usually high-octane Warriors. Like the Jazz advancing to meet the eventual NBA-champion San Antonio Spurs in the conference finals, not coach Don Nelson's club.

"It is tough opener," Jazz forward Andrei Kirilenko said, "because I think they still remember a little bit from the playoffs and I think they still want ... payback. But it's a different season."

"They'll definitely be prepared for us — I'll put it like that," Boozer added Monday. "And we'll be prepared for them, too."

Yet that's no easy task.

Golden State, suffice it to say, is not the most conventional team in the NBA to open a season against.