ziegler.uve >> dave blatt lasted one half seasons with the cavaliers> led them to the nba finals and to the best record in the eastern conference at the lack of connectedness that led to his firing, he was this far today about 4:00 p.m., the cavaliers are returned for the for the bulls who come into town tomorrow, they are 30 -- 11 halfway to the season the third-best record in the nba, he led them to the nba finals, just two victories away from the title, the cavaliers arewo 03 against the top two teams in the data season as general manager david griffin speaks on the move to fire david blatt.na >> this came as a lack of connectedness in the team that the last six weekshe . because there is a lack of vision of how to use the personnel . >> david blatt had the best winning percentage of any fired coach in the nba, they were 83 -- 40 underhand and they face the chicago bulls tomorrow at the q. were where the tyronn lue era begins. >> commercial gas as roosevelt leftwich c who was there as cavs gm david griffin spelled out reasons for foreignav coach david blatt as he said they wanted

it wouldn't have been cool for the mayor of sacramento who played in the nba to lose the nba team on his watch. that wouldn't have helped my political career. >> i'm going to move this conversation towards technology now. and you started initiative to talk about sacramento or cities, cities 1.0, cities 2.0, and now there's initiative on cities 3.0. talk about what the role of cities is now. >> i started talking about a new era of american cities. and that new era is called 3.or cities 3.0. what is 1.0? a 1.0 city is whencies were built around ports and cities and freight il. a 2.0-era city, is when cities were built kind of this industrial revolution. a 3.0 era is where we are today, that's where cities have to be a hub of innovation, of entrepreneurship, and technology. cities are paperless, they're cashless, and they're wireless. that's a new era of a 3.0 city. that's wt we're doing in sacramento. >> at some point you're not going to be mayor for life. at some point you're going to want to go to do something else. >> my term is up in november 2016. when i eventually walk away, i go

, tweet out support for signing up and sure enough using nba tv, tnt, all the nba channels, reaching ethically unsured audiences that they had to get, somehow they hit signup targets, about 10 million people. so we will never know. it was certainly a part of it. and then in terms of governing on more of a global basis, basketball obviously now a global game obama here with vice premier of china making a quote about yao ming. ramping up sports diplomacy. there are a lot of proathletes of sports and was strike to go me that they send more wnba players abroad than nba players abroad out of the state department and that's pretty much of a policy decision. they feel that they get much more bang for their buck, sending role models out into developing countries. so there wasn't a championship team at any level, male or female, they didn't get invited to the white house. the lakers got invited a lot and at one point their coach phil jackson said, he literally said i'm going to quote bb king here and said the thrill is gone. taking a cue from the pittsburgh steelers after they won the super b

the cavaliers have the third-best record in the nba, the lawyers, the spurs and the cavaliers the best record in the east with 30 and 11 have 11 have won eight of last 1011 they want to in a row after being blown out by the golden state warriors we will continue to follow this bring you the latest,nt tyronn lue takes over for david blatt as head coach of the cavaliers.es >> that be something that led to the demise ? >> is zoisite talk about the correlation between the big three of lebron james, kevin love and kyrie irving, talk about thathr especially after they got blown out by the golden implementing this team, they traded for kevin love kevin love to help to lead the team to a championship,inin and then some thought felt he was not getting the properu implementation into the offense and maybe perhaps that was the straw that broke the broke the camel's back in terms of what showed up onca film warriors beat down by over 30 points . many speculations, as to what role of lebron james had ,, as anyone who said, for david blatt not get this done but we do not know, i do know that tyronn

because there is a lack of good and the vision of using personnel. and the nba in the nba for a fired coachch they were 8340 in the regular season under him, more on this coming up with his reaction. >> currently takes over and david griffin is confident that he can take over. >> have more on his background and how he will fit into his new job as head coach. >> high school cheerleading squad suspended. >> of our sticks out about what she believes led to that. >> no cheerleading squad for now , brother says that problems have been ongoing for months to check on the i-team obtained e-mails sent out to parents, notified them that the cheerleading program at villa temporarily suspended, a the mother says that divides adds an away game . >> this suspension provide a chance to evaluate the measure by which the teams traveled,ol but declined to give us specifics . went to the diocese of cleveland to speak tont super superintendent eugene bonner's vote to be baffled and and referred questions to the principle..c >> at the school that principle was unable to talk on camera he called and said t

players to make psa come much we support for signing up in using nba tv, all those nba channels reaching ethnically diverse, jan uninsured audiences that they had to get and somehow at their side of targets of 10 million people. so assert me a part of it. in terms of governing and more of a global basis, basketball obviously now a global game, obama with device of china making a point about gal named. one of the most interesting things i discovered what was being done in the state department under hillary clinton during the first term of the obama administration, ramping up sports diplomacy. there are a lot of pro athletes of all sports to play it through the sports united program and it was striking to me they said my deadbeat nba players abroad out of the state department and that it is very much part of a policy decision. they get much more bang for their buck, sending women role models added to developing countries. so there wasn't a championship basketball team at any level, male or female but didn't get invited to the white house. in his presidency the lakers got invited a lot and

@>> he got to the nba finals. @season is this well, he did get @two games away from winning a @championship. @he said the tension wasn't @there, but clearly the tension @is there now. @remember, david griffin, he's @not afraid to tinker. @he hired a guy with no nba @coaching experience. @this was blatt's first job. @i thought if they did not win @the title this year, he would @be fired. @kind of surprised it didn't @happen on tuesday. @i was in the cavs' locker room @after they got beat down by the @warriors, 34 points. @we had to wait 30 minutes to @get into the locker room. @clearly something was going on @in there. @i think that got the ball roll @through the week to make this @decision, russ. @dan gilbert walked by me, and i @can't use to words to describe @how he felt as he was walking @by. @i think that loss had a lot to @do with this. @>> ty lue coming in. @lue takes over as head coach. @2010. @mike brown did it twice. @he's a former player. @first round pick of the nuggets @and traded to the lakers, so he

watch him on tnt thursdays on "inside the nba." please say hello to shaquille o'neal. [ cheers and applause ] [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: how's it going? >> doing fine, how are you? >> jimmy: doing well, thank you. i feel like you're getting bigger somehow. >> yes, i am. working out. >> jimmy: thank you for coming on guillermo's birthday. did you know it was his birthday? >> no, but i'd like to sing happy birthday to him. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: that would be lovely. >> i need the crowd participation. >> jimmy: all right, all right. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: oh, this is nice. >> no, no, just relax. happy birthday to you happy birthday to you happy birthday dear guillermo happy birthday to you [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: that was nice. a little guillermo bongo. >> guillermo, you got a nice ass, baby. hey, that was nice. >> jimmy: that's why we hired him, yeah, yeah. by the way, you know how to throw a party, don't you. >> yeah. >> i on used to when i was younger. >> jimmy: you used to. you had a big par

of nba caliber players, guys who have played in the nba or are on an nba roster. >> he and his best friend from childhood run the office from their empire state building office. one is attending law school. the other is the vice president in charge of operations. >> he told me i'm going to be an agent. i thought of this business. it was so intriguing to me. i said i want to get involved. >> reporter: they started by approaching those who might not getting drafted by reaching out that's how they signed elijah. >> we have no contacts. what are we going to do? we went on ebay and typed in nba business cards and business cards were popping up signed by guys like jerry sloan, gregg popovich. >> reporter: for the two, one of the big we made it moments was when they saw elijah milsap put on his jersey wearing the number that represented january 3rd, the day that the guys called him to tell him he's getting called up to the nba. >> being so young, we have so much energy. we tell our clients you have dreams to be in the nba. we have dreams to have another player in the nba. we're working tog

. >> sending a message to the nba. a winning record. >>> and tie ron is in, we dig in to what this means s charge towards the playoffs. >>> the light rail evacuated and the bomb squad piles up and paralyzes some of the weakest cities and the worst is yet to come. >> announcer: life, always investigating and always on this channel 5 starts now. >>> changes for the cavaliers as they announced that david ladd is out and fired a half and the comes with 31 wins and 11 losses. >>> a failed some key test regular games. they say the team is under achieving king on all cylinders and david griffin decided the team is not good enough to win an nba title with david blatt and make you o the assistant coach and earlier today brendan haywood saying that this move was e been made a long time ago. >> when it was film session codes david blatt was intimidated to correct lebron tyrone lou would step in so guys just started respecting him because he was not scared to challenge them respect tyrone lou tyrone lou has the tall task of having

finals in his first year but nowhe are moving top assistant will try to wait until the nba title as p.j. ziegler remark. >> david blatt under heavy scrutiny since scrutiny since named head coach in 2014, but friday he wasc fired after leaving the team to a 30 -- 11 record this year.ye of connectedness switchback david griffin called a team meeting friday to inform the players on the decision to fire the head coach. >> have a bunch of guys of guys who know what their job is that we have a businesslike group. >> many may point to the loss to the golden wires as the tipping point is back played the game by itself did that much, over time, you see the type of things that you want to doimee habitually starting to erode and sometimes you can't win games and actually be getting worse pinchback lebron james 88 huge hard to construct the roster but the decision to fire him was his alone. >> lebron james does not run this organization he is about >> am honored to have worked with an amazing group of players , tyronn lue takes over as the head coach . the highest-paid assistant in the nbahe an

positive happenings within the nba and i think dr. king would be proud. i would imagine he would say there's still work to be done especially with ownership and head coaching positions in the minority. >> yeah, still room to make up. >> definitely. >>> let's talk about from sports to flowers. this one, not just any flower. >> no, it happens to be the first-of-its-kind. it was grown in a place that's up next live at 6:30. i was walking home. just picked us up two breakfast croissants for four bucks, when this bear attacked. with one swipe, it devoured one of the croissants. then jack showed up and took care of the beast, so i could escape. and that's what happened to your breakfast croissant. and yours? it survived. share it with yourself. freshlycracked egg with ham and bacon,or sausage, >>> here he is a look at what's coming up later tonight. news 3 live at 7:00, followed by access hollywood at 7:30, then superstore at 8:00. telenova at 8:30. and then back here at 11:00. >>> in the martian, they were able to gree potatoes. but the astronauts have grown t

@two wins away from an nba title @not enough. @he's the first coach to be @fired when the team has its @best record in a conference. @in a statement, he thanked the @what they accomplished. @clearly something was not @right. @david griffen confirmed that @today. @>> i'm in our locker room a @lot. @i knew that there's just a @disconnect there right now. @there's a lack of spirit and @connective thanks i couldn't @accept. @but we were 30 in 11 with the @schedule that was reasonably @easiest and i'm judging a lot @more than wins and losses. @>> cavs owner gilbert thanked @blatt for his work and said @over the course of my business @career, i learned that seems to @the hardest thing to do is the @hardest thing to do. @we support david dprifb's @decision. @griffen didn't talk to anybody @before the decision. @it was all his. @not lebron's addition is. @-- decision. @remember, blatt was hired @before james came back to the @he had no say in it. @the relationship has been @scrutinized at it was better @this season. @hoblt this one. @a t

at 40-404, the warriors have the best record in the nba. still some wopder if they're the association's top team. fellow western conference team is right on their heels. we're talking about the san antonio spurs. that question will be answered monday night. it's the game everybody's been waiting for. the showdown with the second-best team in the nba. yes, those spurs are ready to go. they lead the league in points per game differential. meanwhile, the warriors are a close second. the steve kefr played for the spurs. he's ready to take on his former team. >> i know them pretty well. it's remarkable to me that i think, you know, i'm 50 years old. i've been retired for 13 years and there's still three guys and the same coach all on that team. it makes no sense. so the continuity and just the program they've built has been amazing. >> they're a great team in the lane. as good, if not better than us right now. we lost a couple of weeks. obviously, we understand that we're going to go through that. >> cannot bait for that game. all right. number

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coaches in the nba .is he agreed to a three-year deal witha the cavaliers the cavaliers are going to yahoo sports . he signed a four-year six half-million dollar deal with the cavaliers and he came here from the clippers . david blatt released a statement through his dubai had a 83 -- , david griffin, the cavaliers gm expected to meet with the media at 545 we will have that press conference here on fox 8. >> has been speculated that iran did not get along with david blatt .ge don't know if we look at any proof of that . naturally that at some point they went to him and said that were considering making the move or perhaps he went to them and . none of that will come out for the cavaliers as to what was said or what transpired, they feel, that perhaps tyronn lue gives them a better chance to get a title more than david blatt . tyronn lue is trusted by lebron james. >> you see him on the bench he is usually talking to tyronn lue . he is respected by the lebron james what are the reasons the cavaliersre made him a top 8 of contract many believed that when hired, that if for some reason

the best game in the nba in quite sometime. jessica and janelle, back to you guys. >> always in the captain seat and the best seat in the house, always. >> thanks so much, dave. >> thank you. >>> jeff is going to be predicting you have like esp. >> yes. >> the next 15 days. >> we'll give you a look. we can expect minor fluctuations but everyone wants to know when the next storms will come in and friday through sunday, a quarter to a half inch in the time frame and february 22nd into the 9th, four possible storm systems. >> wh ocoa. >> yes. what would that mean for super bowl? rain on friday. rain on saturday. at 3:30 kick off on super bowl sunday if the gfs forecast model had it's way now, we would have heavy downpours for the kick off. so it's going to be something we're watching closely because we're still several days out from that. >> it could change. >> it could. i would get the poncho ready now. >> a jeff ranieri poncho. >> i like it. now we're talking. >> thanks so much. >>> hope to see you tonight at 11:00. >> bye, bye.

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nba star russell westbrook. and a musical performance by jackson browne. featuring jon batiste and stay human. and now its' time for the late (cheers and applause) >> stephen, stephen, stephen! stephen, stephen, stephen! >> stephen: thank you so much, please. sit down, everybody. thank you so much. this is nice. (cheers and applause). >> stephen: hey, are you all excited for the super bowl yet? (cheers and applause). >> stephen: i am, it is the biggest game in men's football. and this time it is personal for me because directly after the game on super bowl sunday night i'm hosting a live late show from here in the ed sullivan man cave. so let's go to our precoverage of my post super bowl spectacular, this is. >> the road to the supershow, post game preview. late show lix vee. >> stephen: it's called lix vee, partly because those are the roman neum rales for our 87th show, which it is. but mostly because if you put-- (cheers and applause). >> stephen: thank you. applauding for 87, of course, this is a prime number. people love prime numbers. so we call it l

then and then i'll start with nba superstar russell westbrook. (cheers and applause). point guard for the oklahoma city thunderer which i'm pretty sure is also a flavor of mountain due. now i said last week our musical guest was going to be donald rumsfeld. i was high on robe tuesday-- robitussin, apologize. it turns out we have the legendary jackson browne tonight. (cheers and applause) he will perform his song the long way around, a rockin' ballad about a man who does not ask for directions. and, ah, that, my friends, is music coming to us courtesy of jon batiste and stay human. say hi, everybody. (cheers and applause) they are about to prime the jazz pump, but before they do, one more thing, a community in san sai, california, is complaining too noisy. it makes sense. just imagine the sound of all those one hands clapping. >> tonight, stephen welcomes donald rumsfeld. nba star russell westbrook. and a musical performance by jackson browne. featuring jon batiste and stay human. and now its' time for the late (cheers and applause) >> stephen, st