Cavaliers GM Griffin Defends Team, Coach Blatt
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National Basketball Association(CLEVELAND, Oh.) — The Cleveland Cavaliers are not off to the start everyone expected.
After acquiring LeBron James and Kevin Love this offseason to team with young point guard Kyrie Irving, Cleveland was looked at as the best team in the Eastern Conference. Still, the Cavaliers are currently 19-15.
The narrative is shifting to seek a scapegoat and first-year head coach David Blatt has become the target.
General Manager David Griffin is not happy, accusing some in the media of purposely driving a story of a divide within the team.
“This narrative of our coaching situation is truly ridiculous,” Griffin told reporters on Sunday. “It’s a non-story, it’s a non-narrative. Coach Blatt is our coach, he’s going to remain our coach. Do not write that as a vote of confidence. He never needed one. It was never a question. So don’t write it that way.”
What really seemed to irk Griffin was when members of the media ignored comments by James that were in support of the team.
“I heard the entire audio file of LeBron James’ comments. No more than three different times he said, ‘We are growing together every day. The team grows together every day and I am happy with who we have at the helm,'” Griffin stated. “But that wasn’t a sexy pull quote, so we kept looking for something else, until we could pull something negative.”
Griffin emphatically denied the idea of Blatt being removed as head coach, saying “No change is being made. Period.”
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