Larry Sanders had a golden opportunity for NBA redemption on a team that will likely go to the NBA Finals.
But, he blew it for the simplest reason, he couldn’t show up on time.
The last straw was missing a team bus from the hotel to the airport. Cavs GM LeBron errrrr David Griffin explains a little more in detail why they had to let him go via The Atlantic.
“He didn’t have any kind of a setback relative to any of the demons he had or any of those things,” Cavs general manager David Griffin said. “He’s an NBA player. He’s kind of flaky. So sometimes you’re late. You’re this. You’re that. None of those things were incidents. But I have to take you in totality as a player and if I know you’re not going to play, then what I’m going to get is everything else. And if I didn’t even feel confident that he’d be a benefit to the group in practice, then it was hard for me to tell coaches, ‘This is a guy you’ve got to keep.’ So they had the conversation on the plane, what else can we do? And we talked about it and we landed and we talked to all the rest of our staff and made a decision.”
Can’t be flaky when your career is hanging on by a thread.