Okay, the all-star honor usually goes to the coach of the team with the best record in each conference, and it just so happens that, despite the Cavaliers owning that distinction, they saw fit to fire David Blatt last week.
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League rules stipulate that head coaches whose teams have the best record in each conference two weeks prior to the All-Star Game receive the opportunity to lead their conference’s All-Stars.
When the head coach of the Eastern Conference’s top team is cut down in mid-season, things are bound to get weird.
Just as we saw in the loss to Chicago, last night’s game once again featured star players LeBron James, Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love asking to be subbed out earlier than usual.
Before the witch hunt begins on Irving, I think it’d be important to note that most National Basketball Association players would say something similar to this.
“He’s won 66 percent of his games so far, right?”
A three-point play from Zach LaVine pulled the Timberwolves to 107-110 with 16.5 seconds remaining.
The question surrounding the three of them together in Cleveland is whether they can play off each other’s strengths to beat a Western Conference powerhouse in the Finals.
“We’ve been up 2-0 many times against the Cavs”, said Gibson, who fought through an eye injury he called “sore as hell” with 15 points and eight rebounds.
The Cavs scored the first 12 points of the third quarter to blow the game open.
One of the last things Fred Hoiberg tells the Bulls before they take the court each game is to have fun. However, it wouldn’t surprise me if the results of the past couple games are what we see from this team as it heads into the All-Star break.
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“It was a very efficient night for myself, but the ball was moving and it doesn’t matter who is shooting or taking shots”, James said after his second lowest shot total in any game of his career. He was the Suns’ defensive coordinator, although they had the league’s worst defensive field-goal percentage (46.8 percent) at the time of his firing. Talk about going from stomping the grapes to drinking the wine: Longabardi has gone from the woeful Suns to unemployed to an All-Star team coach in the span of about a month. The Cavs didn’t think Blatt could do it. That’s what they need from Lue.
