"The Cleveland Cavaliers and its General Manager, David Griffin, have mutually decided not to extend David's current contract, which ends June 30, 2017", Gilbert said in a heartwarming statement June 19 - ironically the one-year anniversary of the Cavaliers winning the National Basketball Association championship.
James' tweet certainly distances himself from the decision.
After extensive talks with owner Dan Gilbert, Griffin simply had a different vision regarding the future of the team. However, no deal has been reached, ESPN reported. According to Wojnarowski, the Cavaliers' front office had been in a "tough spot" this week while engaged in trade talks, "constantly needing to address Griffin's future with rival executives".
The offseason just got much more interesting for the #Cleveland Cavaliers as they let David Griffin, their general manager go. But Gilbert and team management saw otherwise, fueling speculation of another James exit from Cleveland when he enters free agency in 2018. Now, he is looking forward to his next journey in the National Basketball Association. He added that there will be no announcement yet regarding the leadership changes in the Cavs. Griffin's contract was up at the end of the month, but negotiations between the two sides broke down.
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With James gone, the Cavaliers would either have to settle for being a mediocre Eastern Conference team that could at best make it past the first round of the playoffs or try and blow up the franchise entirely and hope to gain some draft stock after trading nearly all of it away to build the present team.
The Cleveland Cavaliers are looking to make a major trade as they approach the 2017 NBA Draft, but the team's star player isn't happy with their most recent move. Sports. Sources said LeBron is concerned about the timing and what Griffin's exit could mean for the Cavs moving forward.
And it was in January when James took to Twitter to suggest that he needed the Cleveland front office to bring in some extra help if the club was going to have a legitimate chance at a repeat.
LAKERS-NETS TRADE: Three people with knowledge of the deal say Los Angeles has agreed to trade point guard D'Angelo Russell and high-priced center Timofey Mozgov to Brooklyn for big man Brook Lopez and the 27th overall pick in the upcoming draft. James wrote. "Thanks for what u did for the team for 3 yrs!" "We got us 1 (trophy emoji)". The NBA has become an arms race to try and knock off the Golden State Warriors, and the Cavs proved earlier this month that as presently constructed they can not do that.
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