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Here's one thing I want to make clear.

When LeBron James says he was surprised, David Blatt was fired, I believe him.

When LeBron James says that he was not consulted, I believe him.

I believe those reports are factual and actual. Here's the thing.

If you ask the question, did LeBron James have any influence over him being fired? I would say,

oh, he had pretty much all the influence over him being fired. I think that people can get

lost in the sauce of like, oh, the big report is he was surprised. Of course he was surprised. They're not going to tell

him ahead of time that what they're going to do tomorrow morning, but they've talked to him

over the course of a year and a half and understand his position on the matter. And it doesn't

take Sherlock Holmes to figure out his position on the matter.

When he's sitting in the man's seat, when he's pushing him away from a referee, when he's calling his own plays.

And when he is much closer to the assistant coach who was interviewed to be the head coach than he is the head coach.

Well, by the way, when the Cleveland Cavaliers fired their coach,

you know Pat Riley quietly did a dab in his living room.

And the thing is that dab has gotten to the point where he probably did.

He did.

Because there were those that said the influence that LeBron has in Cleveland,

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