Mark Jackson was reportedly LeBron James’s first choice to coach the Cleveland Cavaliers.
The former Warriors coach was the preferred option of James and his agent, Rich Paul, according to Yahoo Sports’s Adrian Wojnarowski.
According to Wojnarowski, James and Paul had worked to undermine Blatt from day one with the ultimate goal of getting a LeBron-approved coach on the sideline. Cavaliers general manager David Griffin, however, ruled out Jackson as an option, aware of the issues within Jackson’s Warriors.
Thus, Tyronn Lue was the compromise choice for James and Paul, and they have been pushing for him to replace David Blatt since last season, and those calls intensified in the last few weeks.
Perhaps it’s true that James wasn’t consulted in Blatt’s firing. With this sort of maneuvering behind the scenes, he didn’t even need to be.
