Green Lantern
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Gilbert should make himself GM..and put his ownership on the line...if Cavs lose he fires himself, and leaves town..WCW style.
And i am not that stressed about Billups "I would trade Love for Melo" .. If Dan says to Chauncey "Your directive is get us defense and two way Players" He wont go get Melo..
Billups is overall a very smart guy who is respected and knows Basketball. .
Isn't it supposed to be the other way around? Isn't your GM supposed to be talking the owner out of dumb trades?
YES THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE HOW IT WORKS
But maybe they will be a good team and Billups can also talk Gilbert out of bad ideas for new Quicken Loan mortgage products
Maybe Griffin defaulted on a series of Quicken loans for shitty investment properties while making a ton of bad suggestions for company rebranding strategies.
Jason lloyd had an interview with 92.3 today and here is a summary from the cavs reddit, summarized by SCMAD. -Trade talks haven't frozen but they are being run by Dan
-Chauncey is getting the job and he will be surrounded by experienced FO people
-He thinks Butler is more smoke than fire and that a PG trade is more realistic
-He doesn't think Griff's departure was about vision but rather Griff wanting more power and money. He said he thinks Dan and Griff essentially shared the same vision
-He thinks Chauncey's comments about Love for Melo were likely for TV and he said he would be very surprised if Love was traded for Melo
-He would be very surprised if Kyrie was traded
-LeBron's comments about getting a play maker were more directed at Gilbert than Griff
-This being the first year of the repeater tax for the Cavs will be very interesting. He mentioned that we didn't actually have to give up Andy V for Frye when we made that trade and that we gave a up a 1st to get Andy's contract off the books
-Mentioned how every new GM Dan has had has been given less and less power. Said this situation is somewhat similar to Ferry's situation
-Said something to the effect of LeBron isn't happy about this but he doesn't know how much it impacts his future decisions. Might be different if he was a FA in 10 days rather than 1 year
-Windy apparently reported that Griff found a team who would be willing to give up a lotto pick for Love (he thinks it's the Suns) when asked about this report Lloyd said he knew nothing about it but that a trade for a lottery pick doesn't make sense for Cavs but that he guesses it could be packaged later.I think the question caught him a bit off-guard and was awkward for him to answer because he hadn't heard about it yet. It was a strange non-answer
original link https://www.reddit.com/r/clevelandc...lights_from_jason_lloyds_interview_w_923_the/
I believe that the word "sources" is everyone's way of being legit and about 98% never come true.Sounds like a lot of speculation and no sources.
-He thinks Chauncey's comments about Love for Melo were likely for TV.....
....and he said he would be very surprised if Love was traded for Melo.
Windy just saying now that Griff wanted more money/power-meaning a exec position ..not the total factor but this is a large part..he mentioned Danny Ferry walking away because of issues over control.Windy also was saying on ESPN radio that "Griffin wanted to be taken care of" and paid at the higher end of GMs in the league (I believe he was one of the lowest).
To me that's not as big of a deal as we all initially thought. I don't particularly care for Gilbert, and the timing sucks, but I can see him thinking "yea we won a championship with a core of LeBron, Kyrie, & Love, but obtaining any/all of those three was not some masterstroke GM move"
Windy just saying now that Griff wanted more money/power-meaning a exec position ..not the total factor but this is a large part..he mentioned Danny Ferry walking away because of issues over control.