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May 20, 2016In a dastardly scheme designed to ruin Tyronn Lue’s fancy suit, LeBron James plotted against his coach when he wasn’t in the locker room. When he entered said room and gave his postgame speech, he never could have guessed the conspiracy that was about to unfold on top of him!
I’m kidding, of course, as the Cavaliers gave their head coach a celebratory bottled water bath.
Why?
The Cavaliers won their tenth consecutive playoff game, and helped their rookie coach set a record. It’s the best start to a playoff run in rookie coaching history. James was the ringleader. Sure, it was contrived for LeBron’s Bleacher Report series Uninterrupted, but it was undeniable that the guys were having a lot of fun with what unfolded.
The coaching record doesn’t actually mean that much all by itself. Much like the coaching record of Mike Brown, there are asterisks on top of asterisks whenever a coach gets to chalk up his record with one of the most talented players (and maybe overall rosters) in NBA history. What Ty Lue has done with this Cavaliers team is impressive, but it’s only in the prism of comparison to other Cavaliers coaches who’ve been in charge when LeBron James was a Cavalier.
When one looks at the Cavaliers and what they’re doing and how they’re carrying themselves with a lot of scrutiny, it’s difficult to not come away impressed. For Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love, this is a do-over of their first playoffs a year ago. For Ty Lue, it’s his first run in the captain’s seat after David Blatt was fired during the season. It’s a team that didn’t look much like a team a very short time ago, between last season’s awkward get-to-know-you period and the moments of apparent joylessness that were the precursor to Blatt getting fired. It’s also easy to be happy when you’re winning, but it’s not that easy to win at the clip the Cavaliers are winning right now.
So it’s a weird chicken or egg type of thing. Are the Cavs winning because they’re getting along or are they getting along because they’re winning? In the end, the answer is probably just, “Yes.” Enjoy the video above.
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Is it just me, or is that just a still pic, not a video, at the top?
Fixed. Apologies.
Appreciated. Feel free to delete this thread if you want.
LeBron loves his teammates so much that he just doesn’t have the heart to let Damon Jones know he isn’t on the roster anymore.
And somehow I’m sure somebody at the 4-letter network will see this as definitive proof that Kevin Love secretly wants to be traded to the Lakers.
Damon Jones is like the guy who graduated 8 years ago but still comes to the homecoming games.
That chemistry is real
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