Cavs’ Lue to coach East in NBA All-Star Game

At age 31 years, 30 days, James became the youngest player ever to score that many points and the 17 to do it in league history.

“The pace really created a lot of opportunities for us, a lot of possessions”, Irving said.

When the head coach of the Eastern Conference’s top team is cut down in mid-season, things are bound to get weird. The power forward scored 34 against Orlando on November 23. If the Cavs play well over the next two weeks, when we get to the All-Star break, Lue might have more wins than Sixers’ coach Brett Brown.

New Cleveland Cavaliers coach Tyronn Lue says Kevin Love’s All-Star snub is unprecedented for a first-place team. “I took blame for that, so now we got to get back to being a team that we were in the past, and that was hanging our hat on our defense”. “I take it as a personal challenge”. There was an obvious disconnect between James and Cleveland’s former coach, who was wildly successful in Europe and hired by Cleveland before James made a decision to return to the Cavaliers as a free agent in 2014. His individual production could soar with more calls for transition offense (1.1 points per possession in transition vs. 0.81 in the half court) and get Cleveland better looks from beyond the three-point line: Irving assists on 62.5 percent of three-point shots in transition, but just 41.4 percent in the half court. James was upset Thompson let Jackson blow by him for an easy layup at the end of the half and he let Thompson know about it on the floor before they made it to the locker room.

In San Antonio, LaMarcus Aldridge had 25 points and 10 rebounds as San Antonio rebounded from their worst loss in three years to bash Houston and remain undefeated at home. Drummond, the first Piston selected to the all-star game since Allen Iverson in 2009, had 25 points and 18 rebounds in Detroit’s 104-99 victory over Cleveland on November 17.

Against the Suns on Wednesday night, five of James’s 13 possession were in transition, and he missed only one shot all night, his lone three-point attempt.

Also in the third quarter, James found himself engaged in some trash talk with the Pistons’ Marcus Morris – James was expressing his distaste for Morris repeatedly grabbing his arm – and the two were each awarded a foul. Guard James Harden led the Rockets with 33 points, seven rebounds and seven assists. They finally convinced Blatt to leave Europe and start his National Basketball Association coaching career.

Blatt’s dismissal – he’s the third coach fired on a team James has played on – led to some condemnation of the four-time league MVP. “It’s not fair to him, in particular, but frankly, it’s kind of not fair to me and our group anymore”.