Sources: Why David Blatt was fired

[BXKingPin82]

Just let this nikka coach and name the team after him fukk it. That's exactly where they going with this shyt.

Should just get his Lenny Wilkens on

Imagine if son officially player coached Cleveland to a title



They might name a planet after his ass

 

[Llcoolbay]

Woj needs to stick to reporting news.

Anything Woj reports on Lebron should not be taken seriously

 

[Big Boss]

I got you some theme music my dude

 

[keond]

Woj is still the most reliable source, I am not trusting anything about Bron coming from a Cleveland source. The Mark Jackson signing with lebrons agency and being the head coach for them seems pretty realistic.

Woj is the best at breaking stories. But his articles always have vendettas. He especially seems to have contempt for the Lebron-Rich Paul union.

 

[keepemup]

 

[bear27]

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Lebron and Rich Paul sound like Kevin Nash and Scott Hall back in the WCW days.Just go around makin everyone miserable because you aren't happy with the way things are,do this to change things without flatly asking for the change.

 

[ALonelyDad]

Woj is the best at breaking stories. But his articles always have vendettas. He especially seems to have contempt for the Lebron-Rich Paul union.

That might be true but there is nothing in this story that is out of the ordinary, this all seems very realistic. We know why he left Miami because him and Riley didn't like each other, Spo would have been fired if it wasn't for Riley. Mark Jackson signing with his agency isn't some coincidence. Lebron never fukked with Blatt since day 1. There are videos out there of him ignoring Blatt during time out plays, and talking to Lue rather than him.

 

[Trip]

Woj is the best at breaking stories. But his articles always have vendettas. He especially seems to have contempt for the Lebron-Rich Paul union.

That wasn't a vendetta piece though. Everyone knows Lebron runs the team

 

[Trip]

That might be true but there is nothing in this story that is out of the ordinary, this all seems very realistic. We know why he left Miami because him and Riley didn't like each other, Spo would have been fired if it wasn't for Riley. Mark Jackson signing with his agency isn't some coincidence. Lebron never fukked with Blatt since day 1. There are videos out there of him ignoring Blatt during time out plays, and talking to Lue rather than him.

Lebron wanting dumbass Mark Jackson coaching the team just makes Riley look even better.

 

[Originalman]

Woj is the best at breaking stories. But his articles always have vendettas. He especially seems to have contempt for the Lebron-Rich Paul union.

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.

 

[KOBE]

Woj just outright buried this bullshyt.


any lebron dikkrider questioning woj the god's credibility needs to be banned.

 

[Big Boss]

How David Blatt never stood a chance with LeBron James and his camp


Before David Blatt ever conducted his first training camp practice in September 2014, Cleveland Cavaliers star LeBron James and his agent, Rich Paul, had the coach's succession plan in place:Mark Jackson.

To become the preferred candidate of the most powerful player in the NBA – and de facto Cavaliers general manager – Jackson understood what he needed to do: Bring on James' and Paul's Klutch Sports agency as his representation, and prepare to deliver those commission fees into the King's coffers. Blatt never had a chance. He never knew what hit him.

From the beginning, the Klutch Sports campaign to puncture Blatt's standing as head coach had been as relentless as it was ruthless. James is one of the great leaders in pro sports, and he directed the Cavaliers how he wanted them: in complete defiance of Blatt.


the Cavaliers firing the coach of the defending Eastern Conference champions and runaway No. 1 seed. Over a season and a half on the job, associate head coach Tyronn Lue fought hard to stay loyal to Blatt, balancing that line of hearing out James' and Paul's barrages on Blatt and yet still urging them to give the coach a chance.


In the end, here was the problem for Klutch Sports' original plan: Cleveland refused to hire Jackson. General manager David Griffin is too well-connected in the NBA, too knowledgeable of the truths inside Jackson's Warriors regime to let that happen. So much of Griffin's job has been to manage the constant demands of James' camp and the volatility of owner Dan Gilbert. As much as anything, his job has been to bridge the chaos above and below him.

Once James' camp realized that Jackson would never be considered as coach – nor would Lue leave his representation to join Klutch Sports agency, despite overtures – Lue became a compromise choice for James' group, sources said. They started pushing for Lue to replace Blatt last season, and grew louder in those calls in recent days and weeks.

Gilbert made Lue the league's highest-paid assistant coach at $2 million-plus a year, forever considering him the head-coach-in-waiting should Blatt need to go. Ultimately, Blatt had little staying power with the Cavaliers, because James had turned Blatt's removal into an inevitability. As the games wore on, opposing players on the floor weren't only watching James constantly wave off plays from the coach – but role players feeling emboldened to disregard the head coach's instructions, too.

James had the Cavaliers existing in open rebellion for over a season now, with no Pat Riley in the organizational shadows to scare everyone into compliance.

Despite winning 11 of 13 games – losing only to the Golden State Warriors and San Antonio Spurs – James had become increasingly vocal in his opposition of Blatt in recent practice sessions and game environments. Within the franchise, it was hard to hear anything else. LeBron James and Rich Paul never had to walk into the GM's office and demand the firing of the coach. All together, they had the capability of making everyone's life hell until the deed was done.

Blatt made mistakes in his transition to the NBA, struggled sometimes to gather the nuances of a complex game of matchups and situations. He had coached in the Euroleague for two decades, and had to sell himself on a new coaching staff, a new roster and the generation's best player.


Tristan Thompson, whom they leveraged into a five-year, $82 million contract. Rival agents find themselves spending more time with clients who end up with the Cavaliers, if only because Rich Paul and his associates work to pilfer players for Klutch Sports, promising the power of James' influence in contract talks with the team.


So here's what's coming now: the trickle of stories on Blatt's incompetence, the fact that no one respected him, and maybe most of all, that James had nothing to do with his firing. For all the fairytales sold on James' return to Cleveland, this was forever about business – the kind of business they couldn't do within Riley's organization, nor Erik Spoelstra's locker room.

LeBron James runs the Cleveland organization, a choice Dan Gilbert made upon the superstar's return to Northeast Ohio. There's no shame there. Nothing that needs an apology out of him. He's constructed a way to maximize his basketball and business interests on Gilbert's dime, and it is possible that James will get all that and win a championship, too.

Once the Cavaliers decided to fire Blatt on Friday, they offered Lue a three-year deal. He considered taking the job on an interim basis for the rest of the season, betting on himself, but ultimately decided on a three-year, $9.5 million contract, sources told Yahoo Sports. This is still the opportunity of a lifetime, a fabulous array of talent that gives a young coach the chance to chase championships.

Only now, Ty Lue gets to try and do something that LeBron James hadn't wanted in his final season in Miami, nor his first year and a half back in Cleveland: to be coached. They pushed David Blatt out, and found a compromise candidate. No commission fees for Klutch Sports on Ty Lue, leaving him with no choice but to win big and win now.

 

[((ReFleXioN)) EteRNaL]

man wade don't care...he got his 3, he chillin for the rest of his career. last thing he wants is a new coach actually getting on him about his play

lmao. exactly. i mean dude said he didn't even want riley coaching because his practices are too hard. riley was about to catch the fade with shaq so you know he doesn't take no shyt. wade wants a coach with no backbone, and that's exactly what spoelstra is.

 

[Propaganda]

Let the Smear Campaign begin

yeah, they'll hit up blatt...but bron's the one who's really gonna get got.

from jump i didn't think blatt was a good fit with the roster they built. although i'm kind of surprised he lasted this long, i didn't see him getting fired at this point. should be interesting to see if cleveland plays differently under lue and if they actually get any better or not.

 

[Flight]

The truth is probably somewhere in the middle..Haynes is cool with Rich Paul and Woj supposedly has something against Bron. So both sides have a bias.