We all know that Blatt was fired because of LeBron.
LeBron has had run ins with his coaches throughout his career who were doing well record wise, so this isn’t a big surprise. He would have gotten Erik Spoelstra fired if he could have bullied Pat Riley like he can bully Dan Gilbert.
But, I love how Stan Van Gundy doesn’t sugarcoat what is going on. Here is what he had to say via Yahoo Sports Michael Lee.
“That elevated all of the coach firings totally into the theater of the absurd.
“You can’t even make a flimsy case that the guy wasn’t meeting expectations…Obviously you have something else going on.
“Did he order the wrong type of food for post game meals? Did he not give David Griffin a nice enough Christmas present? I don’t know.
“If David Blatt’s getting fired how in the hell do the rest of us have jobs? Because our front offices aren’t quite as crazy as theirs.
“The only thing more absurd would be…Walton did a good job, if we lose 2 in a row, we might have to dump [Kerr] & go back to Luke.”
Tell us how you really feel Stan.
All solid points, but the facts are LeBron wanted Blatt gone and since LeBron runs the team Blatt is gone.