Cleveland Cavaliers general manager David Griffin spoke with the media minutes before the Cavs tipped off against the Dallas Mavericks (Mavs won 109-90), and addressed the speculation regarding David Blatt's job security.
He gave his full support of the coach, saying Blatt's job has never been in question:
“This narrative of our coaching situation is truly ridiculous. 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. I heard the entire audio file of LeBron James’ [recent] 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.’ But that wasn’t a sext pull quote, so we kept looking for something else until we found something that could sound negative. That narrative is done. No change is being made, period.
What we got is exactly what we talked about. We came in to the year and I know it wasn’t a sexy story. Growth and development and the long haul is what this is about. Every member of our organization from top to bottom—ownership, myself, the players, the coaches, LeBron himself—signed on for the long haul. This is something we’re doing over time. Yes, we’ve had some bumps; we’ve had it look really, really bad at times. We’ve also beaten every team ahead of us in the Eastern Conference. As of three games ago, we had played the sixth-hardest schedule in the league, in terms of winning percentage against, and the toughest in the East. Doing all of that against the backdrop of losing 15 games from our back-up point guard, losing our starting center and now LeBron’s been out, Kevin [Love] had been out, Shawn Marion had been out… Guys, this is a really difficult recipe to get right. Everybody needs to just settle down and let it happen. I can promise you that [Blatt rumor] is not a narrative that has validity, nor will it.”
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