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I don't know if he's one of the best coaches in history, hah, but I do agree he shouldn't have been tossed aside like that. If they didn't want him they could have fired him last summer.
"It's a shocker. It's just a real shocker.
"I mean, he did a tremendous job just from a strategic standpoint. If you look at his record, this is bizarre, but he has the second-best coaching record (percentage-wise) of all time in the NBA behind Phil Jackson. He's got a higher winning percentage than Red Auerbach and Pat Riley, a whole laundry list of the greatest coaches ever.
"The bottom line with this is that I know a couple of things about coaching in this league. I know integrity. And I know knowledge. I can't speak to the internal things that (might) have gone on in Cleveland. I've read some of the comments that came from the Cavaliers. Teams have a right to make changes.
"But David Blatt is going to be a highly sought-after coach this summer, if an when there are openings _ if he chooses to stay. After this, you just hope a guy like this is still open to coaching in the NBA.
"Blatt's a great guy and one of the best coaches in history. He'll be a Hall of Fame coach, no question, just purely on his European record and international record and Olympic record.
"But in the meantime, everybody will have opinions and so forth. The other side of it is, a good man perhaps has been liberated and is now going to have some great options and he'll find a much better situation here if he wants it. And a guy like him deserves that."
