Cavaliers general manager David Griffin tried to pin David Blatt’s firing on lackluster results on the court. That’s a tough case considering Blatt guided Cleveland’s to last year’s NBA Finals and a 30-11 start this season. So, what was it? LeBron James, despite his denials and public statements, has received plenty of blame for Blatt’s dismissal. But he apparently wasn’t the only Cavalier down on Blatt. Far from it. Brian Windhorst of ESPN: This is my 14th year covering the NBA. Before I covered the NBA, I covered colleges for a while, where I covered several coaches who went on to be relatively big-time coaches. And on every team and every coach I’ve ever covered, I’ve never seen a coach dynamic with a team like I saw with David Blatt. And I don’t know the way he handled the Russian national team. I don’t know the way he handled his teams in Greece. I don’t know how he handled his teams in Israel, in Russia, in Italy, everywhere else he went. All I know is what I saw, and I saw a guy who completely was unable to get even a modicum of respect from a majority of his players. - See more at: http://nba.nbcsports.com/2016/01/28/report-no-cavaliers-veterans-liked-david-blatt/
