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LeBron James’ relationship with David Blatt? There was none! 

Four years ago after the Miami Heat got rolled by the San Antonio Spurs, LeBron James made his exit out of Miami and headed north to Cleveland.

The Cleveland Cavaliers were in a youth movement with young players such as Kyrie Irving, Tristan Thompson and a number one overall pick in Andrew Wiggins. After firing Mike Brown (For the second time!) David Blatt was hired by the Cavs to develop the young players (does this scenario sound familiar?)  It took a while before the two started talking about the team or what color they liked (does this sound familiar?).

LeBron James did not fool a soul with his discontent for Blatt. Even though the Cavs made it to the Finals against the LeBron bully…Golden State. No one really knew how strong this team was at that time because Kevin Love got hurt in the playoff run and Kyrie Irving‘s knee gave out in Game 1 of the Finals after giving Steph Curry the business.

But explain this. The Cavs are the number one seed going into the All-Star break the next year and Blatt gets fired. Sure, Tyronn Lue came in and a Draymond Green brain cramp suspension gave the Cavs the momentum and the rest was history…BUT, Blatt still got fired.

Watch the interview of LeBron James talking about Tyronn Lue when things weren’t going well a year ago. Understand this is LAST YEAR after the Irving trade. There were rumblings about Lue’s performance. Now he replaced Blatt.

Now check out the quote of Raja Bell, who used to work in the Cavaliers front office back when Blatt was in trouble.

"I knew David Blatt was on the hot seat. I like David, I spent a lot of time with him after games. That was my job, talk to David about the nature of NBA players, what happened in our postgame, just kind of chop it up, give him different ideas and stuff like that — David Blatt that is. So David Griffin and I are walking over there, and he’s like, ‘I think my feet might be to the fire here, I might have to fire David Blatt.’ I’m like, ‘don’t do it. Don’t. Let’s not do it, give me a chance to go talk to LeBron.’ So I pull LeBron aside after shootaround that morning, and everybody goes to get on the bus. And we spend about 15 minutes talking. I’m talking to LeBron about his legacy, and what, ultimately, that is — it’s not about what you did in Miami, but it’s gonna be whether you can get this championship back to Cleveland. David Blatt is our guy right now, but in fairness to David Blatt, you as a team haven’t played hard for David Blatt. [LeBron] had just come back from that little hiatus in Miami, and I said, ‘we as a staff can’t really judge David on his merits, because we haven’t seen you guys play hard for him. So if you can get everybody to play hard for him, and give him the opportunity to show us what he can do, then we can make a judgement, and help you get the guy — if he’s not the guy — that you’ll need to do that.’ And so LeBron, he looked at me and he said, ‘I can do that.’ They came out and they did that. They rolled the Clippers that night, and things took off a little bit."

Oh well, we saw how that turned out. The Cleveland Cavaliers was the number one seed going into the All-Star break. He was fired. What NBA extravaganza is going to happen in about say two weeks?