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:17 - Over the weekend, a Cleveland sports team fired their head coach. Spoiler alert: it wasn’t the football team. The Cavaliers said goodbye to Tyronn Lue. So what’s the plan next for the Cavs? Is there a plan at all?

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A report from the Cleveland Cavaliers Monday afternoon is that head coach Tyronn Lue will be taking some time off from the team to address undisclosed health issues. 

The following is Coach Lue's statement from Cavs.com: 

"After many conversations with our doctors and Koby and much thought given to what is best for the team and my health, I need to step back from coaching for the time being and focus on trying to establish a stronger and healthier foundation from which to coach for the rest of the season.

I have had chest pains and other troubling symptoms, compounded by a loss of sleep, throughout the year. Despite a battery of tests, there have been no conclusions as to what the exact issue is.

While I have tried to work through it, the last thing I want is for it to affect the team. I am going to use this time to focus on a prescribed routine and medication, which has previously been difficult to start in the midst of a season. My goal is to come out of it a stronger and healthier version of myself so I can continue to lead this team to the Championship we are all working towards.

I greatly appreciate Dan Gilbert, Koby Altman, our medical team and the organization's support throughout."

Reports are that Cavs assistant coach Larry Drew will take over the coaching duties while Coach Lue gets healthy. 

LeBron James commenting, saying, "I knew he was struggling, but (Lue) was never not himself," adding, "It's probably long overdue, but health is the most important thing." 

The 2016 season with the Cleveland Cavaliers will start here very soon, and as defending NBA Champions, the expectations for this team have not changed.

Cavaliers GM David Griffin and head coach Ty Lue adressed the media at Cleveland Clinic Courts Monday and talked about the team moving forward into 2016-17.

Lue said that health was the biggest thing for his team this year.

"It gives us a great boost going into this season, and it's good to have everyone in good health."

Also some news from Media Day this morning is that veteran point guard Mo Williams will be retiring from the NBA. 

 Griffin says he likes where the team sits as far as backup point guard, and with rookie Kay Felder and some of the other players, he feels they're in good shape.

For the full interview with Griff and Coach Lue, click here. 

The NBA was busy on it's Sunday day off between the NBA Finals Game Four and Game Five with decisions that sideline the Warrior's Draymond Green, assessing a technical foul against LeBron James and digging $25,000 from Cavaliers Coach Ty Lue for daring to question the officiating from Game 4's Cleveland loss to Golden State.

In Green's case, it wasn't just the dust-up with James from Friday night's game but the last straw in a lead-up of bad boy actions. James received the technical foul for his part in the late-game confrontation.

 

(NBA.com) Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green has been assessed a Flagrant Foul 1 upon league office review, it was announced today by Kiki VanDeWeghe, Executive Vice President, Basketball Operations.

In accordance with NBA rules, Green will serve a one-game suspension without pay for accruing his fourth Flagrant Foul point of the 2016 postseason. He will serve his suspension Monday, June 13 during Game 5 of The Finals at Oracle Arena.

The incident occurred when Green made unnecessary contact with a retaliatory swipe of his hand to the groin of Cleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James with 2:48 remaining in the fourth quarter of the Warriors’ 108-97 win in Game 4 of The Finals at Quicken Loans Arena. Under league rules, any player who accumulates four flagrant foul points over the course of the playoffs will be automatically suspended for one game, and every additional flagrant foul will result in either a one-game suspension (for a Flagrant Foul 1) or a two-game suspension (for a Flagrant Foul 2). “The cumulative points system is designed to deter flagrant fouls in our game” said VanDeWeghe. “While Draymond Green’s actions in Game 4 do not merit a suspension as a standalone act, the number of flagrant points he has earned triggers a suspension for Game 5.”

James has been assessed a technical foul upon league office review for his role in the altercation, which included a physical taunt.

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Big news reverberating throughout the basketball world as David Blatt has been fired as the coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers, a surprising move to many, but not to others.

Rick Noland, who covers the Cavaliers for the Medina Gazette and the Elyria Chronicle Telegram joined the Sam Bourquin Show to talk about the firing, saying that a team with title aspirations, this move was necessary.

"This is an NBA title season in their mind, and I think that when they put all the facts on the table, weigh the intangibles as much and as accurately as they possibly could have, they thought that this was a move that had to be made," Noland explained.

 

Various sources around the NBA report that assistant coach Tyronn Lue has agreed to a" multi-year" deal to coach the team moving forward.

Some are calling it a bold move, a gutsy move to fire the head coach in the middle of the season, but Noland says for a team who is on the verge of winning it all, the time is now.

 

Cavaliers coach David Blatt has lost his job.

The move was officiallly announced by Cavaliers general manager David Griffin, who told reporters at a Friday press conference that the team had a "lack of connectedness" over the past few weeks to one month.

Cavaliers associate head coach Tyronn Lue will take over as the Cavs' head coach. Griffin says that won't be on an interim basis.

Blatt had a record of 30 and 11 this year, but the team suffered significant losses to two strong teams - the San Antonio Spurs, and last year's NBA Finals opponents, the Golden State Warriors.

After he was informed of the decision to let him go, Blatt released a statement through Priority Sports and Entertainment.

 "I am very grateful to have had the opportunity to serve as the Head Coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers. I'd like to thank Dan Gilbert and David Griffin for giving me this opportunity and am honored to have worked with an amazing group of players from LeBron James, Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love through our entire roster. I'd also like to express my extreme gratitude to my coaching staff. I am indebted to them for their professionalism, hard work, loyalty and friendship. I am proud of what we have accomplished since I have been the Head Coach and wish the Cavaliers nothing but the best this season and beyond.