Pictured are Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert (in black suit) and Cleveland Urban News.Com Sportswriter Karl Kimbrough
By Cleveland Urban News.Com Sportswriter Karel Kimbrough
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CLEVELAND, Ohio-Once again the Cleveland Cavaliers are searching for a new head coach after another poor season. Mike Brown was fired last month and for the second time in four years by owner Dan Gilbert.
Cleveland, as a major American city, is a pro sports teams kind of town and winning, whether its is basketball, football or baseball, is part of the ambiance of it all, at least from the standpoint of Cavaliers fans.
Gilbert has now changed head basketball coaches four times and general managers three times over the nine years he has been the owner of the Cavaliers, which makes some wonder if he has a clue as to what he is doing with this franchise. Gilbert has been one of Cleveland fans' favorite team owners because of what he's done for the city outside of his basketball team. He continues to tell Cleveland fans that he is going to bring a winner to Cleveland and wears his passion for his team on his shirt sleeve. At some point, and in the near future, Gilbert will need to put up or shut up.
In the last year Gilbert has put himself on the hot seat with Cleveland fans and in a clown's suit with the the national media. Rehiring Brown last year after firing him in 2010, then firing him again after one season, is disturbing. Not only that, but when he announced that Brown was being rehired last year, he said that he should have never fired him the first time. So to fire Brown again one season later is almost fictional.
As a reason for Browns firing Gilbert said that “ we need to go in a different direction.” Can Cavaliers fans trust in whatever direction that may be? Probably not.
Brown can sit back, relax and ponder over what he did wrong as he collects the $16 million remaining on his five year contract. But there will be no relaxing for new General Manager David Griffin. He appears to be the new voice and leader of this Cavaliers franchise.
Gilbert has been know where to be seen since the end of the Cavaliers season, or at least not in the places that some what like to see him be. Griffin, on the other hand, has been the Cavaliers spokesman at his introductory news conference, announcing Brown's firing, and taking the lead at the NBA draft lottery in late May. Griffin, along with other Cavaliers management affiliates, has the task of finding the right coach to replace Brown.