2015-16 NBA Thread (feat. the Wives)

Heat minority owner reveals that Lebron also demanded that Erik Spoelstra be fired when he was in Miami.

 

The same owner who is not allowed to talk to employees. They've been trying to buy him out for years. He has no contact with Riley and Spoelstra.

LeBron should have gotten Mike Brown fucking fired.

 

Pretty sure everyone has seen this but:

 

"LeBron James is now the most hated person in Israel.”

Sharon Davidovitch, a sports journalist for Israeli news site Ynet, speaking about reaction to the firing of Cavaliers coach David Blatt, which some blame on James.

 

Can't believe the extent to which the Blatt firing has been spun into an international thing. Don't know how many times the last few days I've seen this story referencing Israelis/Jews being pissed, and the "anti" people happy over this, but it sure is a surprisingly damn LOT. This may be the first coach firing ever to impact international relations.

Honestly, it's just an overpaid basketball coach who wasn't even from Israel (born and raised in the Boston area), calm the fuck down, people.

 

I am sure that when people are Googling they are finding this 2011 story about LeBron, which I never thought made a damn lick of sense at the time.

LeBron James -- Alleged Mishegas at Jewish Basketball Game

The Internet being what it is, you can see how "These Jews suck at basketball" has probably been converted to fact in many circles.

 

Van Gundy was making a great point about the ASG coaches:

Luke Walton should be West coach being he did the heavy lifting most of the first half.

And shouldn't it be Dwane Casey now that Blatt is gone and the Raptors have the next-best record?

 

And the delayed reaction is kicking in: the Cavs -- best record in the East, 20 over .500 -- fired their coach? That is really funny.

 

I swear, its like the Warriors and Spurs are playing a different sport than the rest of the NBA teams.

I look at how the Warriors and Spurs play, and then I look at a Kobe or Carmelo... those jackasses might as well be playing in short shorts and b/w tv... their games look antiquated.

 

Who knew unselfish play, fitting into the salary cap and not getting the coach fired would work?