Sources: Why David Blatt was fired

[Big Boss]

Dude smart he knows that Lebron pieces will get him traction and hits. He was one of the first to jump on the Lebron negative band wagon when he left Cleveland.

I will say this that polish boy ain't dumb. No matter how connected he is I still place him in the Sam Smith and Jay Marriotti mold. A writer who got big off of writing hit pieces on certain athletes or coaches.

Sam Smith off of MJ and Marriotti off of Mike Ditka.

 

[Roadie pipeher]

How so? Those wins left with Bron,

Trip been making that corny ass argument like we don't see that Miami team..

And woj hates Bron, even that begrudging article he wrote after 2012 was hilarious, you could see he didn't want to give him props.

I see people shytting on Chris Haynes also...Bron doesn't look good on that article either...he was getting a pass and that set a bad example so which is which?

 

[NYC Rebel]

Bron is fresh off a finals appearance and not even 50 games into this season and cats are bringing up Riley being right about something?


How hard pressed are dudes?

This site is absolutley disgusting in the midst of basketball season.

 

[Originalman]

Breh as a kid in Chicago Marriotti hoe ass would write hit pieces on Mike Ditka every week. Then the hoe celebrated when Ditka was finally fired.

Many of these sports writers are straight up hoes man. That is why I had no sympathy for Jay Marriotti when he lost everything for putting his hands on his old lady. He deserved that shyt.

 

[Originalman]

Bron is fresh off a finals appearance and not even 50 games into this season and cars are bringing up Riley being right about something?


How hard pressed are dudes?

This site is absolutley disgusting in the midst of basketball season.

Thing is kats talk about Lebron being a back stabber and Riley like the original back stabber.......Riley was cutting throats from city to city.

Mr. Quit a job and send a fax....

 

[GilSho]

We're taking Woj's word seriously. when it comes to Bron?

He's an undeniable LeBron hater, it's been going on since pre-decision.

He passes the ball to teammates & chokes in the clutch
Poor shot selection
Given chance to win NBA's 2012 All-Star game, LeBron James takes a pass
LeBron stalls again in the clutch

He had a me first attitude during the Olympics where he barely played.
Team USA's declaration of independence
James not ready to concede East to Boston
Gold or bust for Colangelo, Team USA

He hangs out too much with his childhood friends
King James left the playoffs as a loser
LeBron's silence on 2010 is golden for Cavs
LeBron trades one drama for another


shyt

When Wojnarowski wasn’t busy writing about James with “prose lifted from Travis Bickle’s diary,” as Tommy Craggs once described it at Slate, he was flailing around for James-related news. Between 2008 and mid-2010 Wojnarowski wrote ten columns about James’ impending free agency. He brought up nearly a quarter of the league as potential destinations—including devoting one column to the ludicrous idea that James would join the Dumars-led Pistons. It was only a little over a month before James’s ill-fated ESPN special “The Decision” that Wojnarowski mentioned James’ eventual destination, Miami, for the first time—and even then, he returned shortly to naming incorrect teams.

Wojnarowski would likely say that he was merely relaying what league sources told him, not definitively saying that James would or would not sign with a specific team. But that’s precisely the problem. Wojnarowski’s reporting is rife with opinion, conjecture, and speculation—whether his own or an anonymous league source’s—and it can be impossible to tell what he is actually reporting. When Wojnarowski wrote “the Chicago Bulls are still the team to beat, with Cleveland a close second and New Jersey the looming wild card” a week before James chose Miami, there was no indication whether that was sourced information, a guess, or something in-between. Four days before James left Cleveland, Wojnarowski wrote a similarly incorrect and murkily sourced sentence about James meeting with teams: “he needed the threat of leaving [Cleveland], even if there was never truly the intent.” As one beat writer described Wojnarowski’s writing in relation to his peers: “Most of those guys, [USA Today’s Sam] Amick and [Yahoo’s Marc] Spears and [ESPN’s Marc] Stein … just write straight news, and you don’t really get as confused by news and what is their opinion.”

A week after “The Decision,” Wojnarowski wrote a 4,000 word ticktock assuredly describing how James came to choose Miami, a stunning act of hubris. His reporting on LeBron James was consistently sloppy and poorly sourced, yet Wojnarowski had the audacity to present his piece as the definitive account. With just two quotes from anonymous sources and a history of being wrong about James, it doesn’t deserve to be treated as reliable. NBA writer Ethan Sherwood Strauss summed it up well: “If all this was so telegraphed, then Wojnarowski missed multiple Morse code memos. Now Adrian claims retroactive omniscience? My temples throb at the thought. Insiders should prove their status with a hefty helping of named sources. I give leeway to those with impeccable track records, but Adrian just whiffed on a big one.”

Four years later, Wojnarowski whiffed again. Last February he wrote an article titled “How Cleveland lost its way, and lost a chance at LeBron's return.” LeBron James returned to Cleveland five months later.

Those within the league think Wojnarowski’s criticism of LeBron stems from reporting failures. “I don’t know if LeBron’s whole camp or just LeBron shafted [Wojnarowski], but [Wojnarowski] was having trouble getting to him,” a former team employee he tried to cultivate as a source told me. Somebody else familiar with Wojnarowski and James’ relationship said, “Adrian does not talk to LeBron, or people in LeBron’s camp. He doesn’t do any reporting with LeBron James or his people.” (Both spoke on condition of anonymity, citing fears that Wojnarowski would harm their careers.)

I'll believe that fat autistic fukk Windhorst before I believe anything that comes out of Woj's mouth re LeBron.​

 

[Originalman]

Trip been making that corny ass argument like we don't see that Miami team..

And woj hates Bron, even that begrudging article he wrote after 2012 was hilarious, you could see he didn't want to give him props.

I see people shytting on Chris Haynes also...Bron doesn't look good on that article either...he was getting a pass and that set a bad example so which is which?

Breh even the haters know without Lebron they ain't even watching these games. Let the hawks or pacers go to the finals to play the Spurs or Warriors. shyt doing Oprah Own Network special numbers.

 

[pete clemenza]

If Wojo didn't write this article somebody else would have. We should expect 2-3 more of these before the weekend is up plus is any of this a shock to you? This is what we all thought was the case in Cleveland anyways.. we just enjoyed the f*ckery of it all

 

[god shamgod]

Lebrons camp don't fukk with woj,he wrote negative stories about lebron when he was young in the league.That's why he holds a grudge towards lebron,woj breaks no lebron news not the miami move or back to cavs move.

This long ass article about woj breaks it down


Basketball's Biggest Reporter Is Waging War on ESPN—And He'll Do Anything to Win

 

[Originalman]

We're taking Woj's word seriously. when it comes to Bron?

He's an undeniable LeBron hater, it's been going on since pre-decision.

He passes the ball to teammates & chokes in the clutch
Poor shot selection
Given chance to win NBA's 2012 All-Star game, LeBron James takes a pass
LeBron stalls again in the clutch

He had a me first attitude during the Olympics where he barely played.
Team USA's declaration of independence
James not ready to concede East to Boston
Gold or bust for Colangelo, Team USA

He hangs out too much with his childhood friends
King James left the playoffs as a loser
LeBron's silence on 2010 is golden for Cavs
LeBron trades one drama for another


shyt

When Wojnarowski wasn’t busy writing about James with “prose lifted from Travis Bickle’s diary,” as Tommy Craggs once described it at Slate, he was flailing around for James-related news. Between 2008 and mid-2010 Wojnarowski wrote ten columns about James’ impending free agency. He brought up nearly a quarter of the league as potential destinations—including devoting one column to the ludicrous idea that James would join the Dumars-led Pistons. It was only a little over a month before James’s ill-fated ESPN special “The Decision” that Wojnarowski mentioned James’ eventual destination, Miami, for the first time—and even then, he returned shortly to naming incorrect teams.

Wojnarowski would likely say that he was merely relaying what league sources told him, not definitively saying that James would or would not sign with a specific team. But that’s precisely the problem. Wojnarowski’s reporting is rife with opinion, conjecture, and speculation—whether his own or an anonymous league source’s—and it can be impossible to tell what he is actually reporting. When Wojnarowski wrote “the Chicago Bulls are still the team to beat, with Cleveland a close second and New Jersey the looming wild card” a week before James chose Miami, there was no indication whether that was sourced information, a guess, or something in-between. Four days before James left Cleveland, Wojnarowski wrote a similarly incorrect and murkily sourced sentence about James meeting with teams: “he needed the threat of leaving [Cleveland], even if there was never truly the intent.” As one beat writer described Wojnarowski’s writing in relation to his peers: “Most of those guys, [USA Today’s Sam] Amick and [Yahoo’s Marc] Spears and [ESPN’s Marc] Stein … just write straight news, and you don’t really get as confused by news and what is their opinion.”

A week after “The Decision,” Wojnarowski wrote a 4,000 word ticktock assuredly describing how James came to choose Miami, a stunning act of hubris. His reporting on LeBron James was consistently sloppy and poorly sourced, yet Wojnarowski had the audacity to present his piece as the definitive account. With just two quotes from anonymous sources and a history of being wrong about James, it doesn’t deserve to be treated as reliable. NBA writer Ethan Sherwood Strauss summed it up well: “If all this was so telegraphed, then Wojnarowski missed multiple Morse

 memos. Now Adrian claims retroactive omniscience? My temples throb at the thought. Insiders should prove their status with a hefty helping of named sources. I give leeway to those with impeccable track records, but Adrian just whiffed on a big one.”

Four years later, Wojnarowski whiffed again. Last February he wrote [URL='http://sports.yahoo.com/news/how-cleveland-lost-its-way--and-lost-a-chance-at-lebron-s-return-023906652-nba.html']a piece[/URL] titled “How Cleveland lost its way, and lost a chance at LeBron's return.” LeBron James returned to Cleveland five months later.

Those within the league think Wojnarowski’s criticism of LeBron stems from reporting failures. “I don’t know if LeBron’s whole camp or just LeBron shafted [Wojnarowski], but [Wojnarowski] was having trouble getting to him,” a former team employee he tried to cultivate as a source told me. Somebody else familiar with Wojnarowski and James’ relationship said, “Adrian does not talk to LeBron, or people in LeBron’s camp. He doesn’t do any reporting with LeBron James or his people.” (Both spoke on condition of anonymity, citing fears that Wojnarowski would harm their careers.)
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I'll believe that fat autistic fukk Windhorst before I believe anything that comes out of Woj's mouth re LeBron.

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Breh thank you for posting this shyt. I forgot how many articles this fool wrote about Lebron. This white boy ain't shyt man. Like I said he ain't nothing but Sam Smith and Jay Marriotti. Dude ain't shyt.....might as well write for media takeout.

Dap + Rep for post facts. Gonna have to save this for future reference.

 

[boskey]

Breh Wojo been having a vendetta against Lebron ever since he left Cleveland. That polish boy Wojo was able to grow his brand just off of hit pieces during the time Lebron was in Miami.

Wojo hoe ass even purposely brought shyt up from when Lebron was rookie and second year pro. It was some hoe ass shyt just like when bytch ass Sam Smith wrote The Jordan Rules and got big off that book throwing MJ to the bushes.

Anyway I don't know what hoe ass Wojo and Windhorst gonna do when Lebron retires. Guess they will hope on another black athlete nuts and ride that to another meal ticket.

Yup.woj even says in his article that Bron and Rich Paul didn't demand this move. So instead he dug up every possible way they might have influenced the decision by "making everyone miserable". Same exact story he's been selling since 2010. "Bron and his camp are annoying everybody". Woj's story is a rerun...

 

[NYC Rebel]

Woj of LeCold fries fame is back with that axe just grinding.



I'm all Coli tuckered out by this corny shyt.

 

[Spiritual Stratocaster]

During the first portion of the 2014-15 season, film sessions were a topic of discussion among the players. Blatt was reluctant to criticize star players even when they clearly messed up a play. This became routine. It got so bad that I'm told that Lue finally intervened, stood up and demanded that somebody rewind the footage so that he could get on members of The Big 3.

During team scrimmages, players competed aggressively but bit their tongues as Blatt frequently blew his whistle to call ticky-tack or phantom fouls for his go-to players. One player said sometimes Blatt didn't even have a whistle and would yell at the top of his lungs to stop play and call a foul if one of his stars acted as if he was hit.

"A good pack leader mus' show domenance"

 

[Rev]

Damn, they had Blatt scared shytless. Poor dude was in over his head dealing with Lebron. Sucks cuz I hope it doesn't affect future work. Doubt he gets another NBA HC gig before being an assistant elsewhere first...right?

Anyway, it has seemed like it was Lue's job in the making.

 

[NelsonSwagdela]

Heywood out here vouching for this story and said it was the right call.

Haywood elaborated on Blatt’s dysfunctional relationship with LeBron James in an interview with SiriusXM’s NBA Today (h/t Steve Aschburnerof NBA.com):

Coach Blatt was very hesitant to challenge LeBron James. It was one of those situations where, being a rookie coach, and LeBron being bigger than life, it was a little too much for him. I remember we had James Jones [talk] to Coach about how, ‘Hey, you can’t just skip over when LeBron James makes a mistake in the film room.’ Because we all see it.

And we’re like, ‘Hey, you didn’t say anything about that. You’re going to correct when Matthew Dellavedova‘s not in the right spot. You’re going to say something when Tristan Thompson‘s not in the right spot. Well, we see a fast break and LeBron didn’t get back on defense or there’s a rotation and he’s supposed to be there, and you just keep rolling the film and the whole room is quiet.’ We see that as players. That’s when … as a player, you start to lose respect for a coach.

Slowly but surely, that respect started chipping away where he would kind of be scared to correct LeBron in film sessions. When he would call every foul for LeBron in practice. Those type of things add up. Guys are like, ‘C’mon man, are you scared of him?’

Adding to the dysfunction, Haywood said he envisioned assistant Tyronn Lue—who become the team's new head coach and not an interim, per Yahoo Sports' Adrian Wojnarowski—would eventually supplant Blatt:

From what I was hearing, David Blatt kind of lost the team. Then there were differences about what guys should be playing and what guys weren’t playing, from a management-coaching standpoint.

When you throw in those type of things combined with the fact that Tyronn Lue already had a lot of power in the organization, had a lot of traction, and a lot of people that were there already viewed him as the coach, these type of things happen.

But Haywood—who was traded to the Portland Trail Blazers last summer and waived shortly after—didn’t pin blame on James, noting Blatt didn’t build on last year’s positives. For that, he believed Friday’s move was fair.

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