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Dunc'd On Basketball NBA Podcast

David Griffin Out in CLE; Projecting the 2017 Draft with Kevin Pelton

Dunc'd On Basketball NBA Podcast

Nate Duncan

Sports

4.52.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2017

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Click to subscribe via RSS feed or iTunes.  And if you like this pod, please donate to support Nate and Danny at Patreon.com/DuncanLeroux ESPN's Kevin Pelton joins the show to discuss his draft projections.  Who is over- or underrated on draft boards...

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0:00.0

I were actually putting this on the beginning because some big news dropped today.

0:03.8

Danny demanded to do at least a 10 minute segment on the big news the day and then after this Kevin

0:09.9

Pelton will join us to project the 2017 draft. But Danny, what is it? What happened? Why must we talk

0:17.0

right now at this moment? On the one year anniversary of the Cleveland Cavaliers when their first title

0:23.2

title win, they announced that David Griffin and the franchise will be departing and the biggest

0:29.0

issue here is the timing, both broad scale and narrow scale. Yeah, let's make two no two ways about

0:35.2

it here. Dan Gilbert completely screwed over David Griffin here. If he wasn't going to pay him,

0:40.1

now of course the reports from Mick Metamon said, oh, there's a difference in the direction of the

0:45.2

franchise. That would be a surprise to me. I'm guessing this is about money because Gilbert is

0:49.9

paying a bunch of money already. And he also has demonstrated many a time that he does not really value

0:57.1

the GM position. I think that a lot of people have said that. He probably should value the GM

1:01.2

position because David Griffin did an outstanding job in Cleveland, both in terms of manipulating the

1:06.8

salary cap, although Gilbert, why here's some of he like kind of gives credit to some of the

1:12.2

underlings there more than he does Griffin. But nonetheless, like Griffin is executing these moves.

1:17.0

He's got great relationships around the league. Highest character guy never heard anyone say a

1:21.6

single bad thing about David Griffin. And so Gilbert, if he wasn't going to pay him, how about

1:26.1

you let him interview or at the very least, you can just say, hey, we're going to part ways at the

1:31.6

end of this time. So Atlanta, maybe you can hold off or Milwaukee, the day after Milwaukee introduces

1:37.9

John Horst. Now all of a sudden, it's not going to work out with David Griffin or Orlando is all

1:42.8

would have been very interested to talk to Griffin as well. Now he's screwed. He can't go any of

1:47.0

those places. He's probably going to have to sit out for a year. And he's not sitting out a year

1:51.1

like he got fired because his contract just came to an end. So he's just going to have to sit there.

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