CAVS.SPACE

On Thursday night, TNT aired a video clip of David West talking about playing with Tim Duncan and the Spurs. West expressed his amazement with how Duncan, an accomplished basketball legend, remains open to constructive criticism from Gregg Popovich and allows himself to be coached. On Friday afternoon, news reports confirmed that David Blatt had been fired as head coach of the Cavs, with Tyronn Lue being promoted on a permanent basis. Rumors have been swirling that Coach Blatt had butted heads with stars LeBron James and Kevin Love and did not have the buy-in of the players. During an impromptu press conference, David Griffin confirmed that there was a sentiment of disconnect in the locker room. The media airwaves and social media were blowing up with discussions about whether or not LeBron and the rest of the team are coachable. Some people went as far as saying that the team tanked the game versus Golden State on Monday. Griffin advised that the blowout loss to the Warriors was n...

The Cleveland Browns drew a lot of attention when announcing the promotion of Sashi Brown to Executive Vice President of Football Operations and the hiring of Paul DePodesta as Chief Strategy Officer. In particular, DePodesta worked for the Cleveland Indians in the past and was recruited to the Oakland Athletics by General Manager Billy Beane. Beane is seen as the figurehead of "Moneyball", a movement in baseball focusing on statistics and advanced analytics. Bill James had helped the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) publicize their research on key baseball statistics, which became know as "SABRmetrics" or "sabermetrics". Michael Lewis wrote about Beane and the Athletics' front office in the book " Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game ". When a movie was made based on the book, DePodesta asked that his real name not be used, so Jonah Hill ended up playing the part of "Peter Brand". While advanced sports anal...