{"id":28179,"date":"2016-01-22T15:54:42","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T21:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=28179"},"modified":"2016-01-22T15:55:06","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T21:55:06","slug":"cleveland-cavaliers-fire-david-blatt-as-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/cleveland-cavaliers-fire-david-blatt-as-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleveland Cavaliers fire David Blatt as coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(CLEVELAND) &#8212; The Cleveland Cavaliers have fired Israeli David Blatt after only a year and a half into his contract with the team, according to sources.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The firing comes only a few days following a lopsided 132-98 bashing at the hands of National Basketball Assocation champions, the Golden State Warriors, on national television.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Blatt, a high profile former professional player who coached in Israel, posted an overall 83-40 record with Cleveland and took them to the NBA Finals in only his first season as coach. The Cavaliers won only two games before the Warrior took the series 4-2 and captured the NBA crown, their first title in 40 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The sudden firing stands in direct contradiction to what seems to be another outstanding season for the team, which has legendary LeBron James in its lineup of stars.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Cavaliers&#8217; record in the Eastern Conference is 30-11, which is the best of any team in the conference. There are three teams in the Western Conference &#8211; the Golden State Warrior, San Antonio Spurs and Oklahoma City Thunder &#8211; who have posted better records than the Cavaliers thus far this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Sources suggest that Tyronn Lue will be taking over the reins at the Quicken Loans Arena where the Cavaliers play.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Cleveland%20Cavaliers%20fire%20David%20Blatt%20as%20coach\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,1491],"tags":[1009,6128,456,8790,8795,1961,8788,1096],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28179"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28179"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28181,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28179\/revisions\/28181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}