LeBron James has been taking some heat recently. (See what I did there?) When David Blatt got canned, I think it all crossed our minds. “LeBron must’ve put the hammer down”. We all thought that LeBron had at least a say in the decision. He couldn’t have clocked onto the news when we did.
But he said he had nothing in the decision, but it’s not like he was against the decision, that we know. But some people wanted to catch LeBron, they started to harp back to Miami, saying that LeBron attempted to get Erik Spoelstra fired, but Heat President Pat Riley shut the notion down.
On a report, originating from a translation of minority Heat owner Ranaan Katz, that LeBron James asked Riley to fire Erik Spoelstra: “Not from him to me, ever. I’ve been in that situation twice. I left Los Angeles and a lot of stuff followed me out the door to New York. And obviously when I left New York, a lot of stuff followed me down here to Miami. It took about 10 years to sort of get out of that storyline. So a lot of stuff is following him out the door. Whether it’s right or wrong, it’s just the nature of it. But as far as that goes, no, he never, ever walked in and said anything.“
LeBron isn’t a coach killer. But in the case of David Blatt, he was a component in it regardless of whether he knew before us or at the same time as us. When you don’t get on with the leader of the team, it won’t be hard to get a reason to fire the guy.
