{"id":2576,"date":"2010-07-02T13:16:02","date_gmt":"2010-07-02T21:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cavstheblog.com\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/?p=2576"},"modified":"2010-07-02T13:16:02","modified_gmt":"2010-07-02T21:16:02","slug":"links-to-the-present-july-2-2010-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cavstheblog.com\/?p=2576","title":{"rendered":"Links To The Present: July 2, 2010 (Day 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/media.cleveland.com\/cavs_impact\/photo\/frilbjjpg-eb713cd7317fe40a_large.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"377\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So getting Scott, a coach with 10 years of experience and a strong  playoff r\u00e9sum\u00e9, represented a success on several levels.&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/cavs\/index.ssf\/2010\/07\/cavaliers_achieve_goals_in_the.html\" target=\"_blank\">Brian Windhorst<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8221;He demands respect,&#8221; Brown said of Scott, his coach for two-plus  seasons in New Orleans. &#8220;I really think he was a great hire for  Cleveland. I think it was a move to show LeBron that they are serious  about what they&#8217;re trying to do. I really think it&#8217;s a great fit.&#8221;&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/cavs\/index.ssf\/2010\/07\/with_byron_scott_cavaliers_hav.html\" target=\"_blank\">Devin Brown on Byron Scott from Bill Lubinger&#8217;s Article<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/cavs\/index.ssf\/2010\/07\/lebron_james_recruiting_visits_1.html\" target=\"_blank\">Brian Windhorst&#8217;s FA Day 2 Recount<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Funny line from <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/nba\/columns\/story?columnist=adande_ja&amp;page=FreeAgency-100702\" target=\"_blank\">Adande Article<\/a>: &#8220;Meanwhile, the Clippers are given no chance of landing <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/nba\/players\/profile?playerId=1966\">LeBron  James<\/a>, although he at least granted them an audience to make their  pitch. (The fact that the Clippers celebrated the event by releasing a  statement saying, &#8220;We are honored to be one of the select organizations  to have been invited to meet with LeBron James and his team&#8221; ought to be  grounds in itself for LeBron to cross them off his list.)&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nba.fanhouse.com\/2010\/07\/01\/lebron-james-dwyane-wade-miami\/\" target=\"_blank\">Our good buddy Povtak with some wise words:<\/a> &#8220;If he wins a title in Miami, what does it prove? That it took great  players to help him accomplish what he is good enough to do by himself?  Wade would always have one more ring than LeBron, and it&#8217;s a franchise  still under the direction of Riley, arguably the finest coach in  history. It would be the surest way for James to take a step backward in  etching his legacy in basketball.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I love <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cavs.com\" target=\"_blank\">watching<\/a> Austin Carr cry when the Cavs win the LeBron lottery.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/columns\/story\/13589684\/summer-of-lebron-getting-too-much-attention-think-again?tag=headlines;other\" target=\"_blank\">Not really sure if this is in jest or not<\/a> &#8211; but I would vehemently argue that this is not &#8220;the American way&#8221;.\u00a0 I do agree that the &#8220;haters&#8221; are hypocritical though.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tweets To The Present: (follow me <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/tompestak\" target=\"_blank\">@tompestak<\/a>)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Talking about  Showtime running is a direct appeal to LeBron, in my opinion. Very  important what he just said.&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/PDcavsinsider\/status\/17594121896\" target=\"_blank\">Brian Windhorst<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Scott on  offense: &#8220;Being a running team starts in  training camp. I believe we have the pieces in place.&#8221;&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/WFNYScott\/status\/17594491705\" target=\"_blank\">Scott @ WFNY<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Although he said LBJ is likely more talented than  Kobe, Scott was asked the difference between the two. His answer: &#8220;five  rings.&#8221;&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/CavsJoeG\/status\/17596918743\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Gabriele<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;So getting Scott, a coach with 10 years of experience and a strong playoff r\u00e9sum\u00e9, represented a success on several&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links-to-the-present"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cavstheblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cavstheblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cavstheblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cavstheblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cavstheblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2576"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cavstheblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2578,"href":"https:\/\/cavstheblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2576\/revisions\/2578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cavstheblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cavstheblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cavstheblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2576"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cavstheblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=2576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}