A major, ground-shaking controversy is brewing at The Q.
It has the chance to rock the Cavaliers to their core, creating an unbridgeable divide between the team’s star player and coach.
David Blatt said he doesn’t like headbands. Boom.
“I’ve never been a headband guy, but I’m so old school,” Blatt said Saturday night, following the Cavaliers 89-79 triumph over the Phoenix Suns.
So with tongue firmly planted in cheek, let’s rewind.
When LeBron James returned from a brief rest late in the second quarter, he took the floor sans headband. No signature, receding-hairline-hiding, crown of elastic cloth. Gone. Poof. It didn’t resurface.
As already mentioned, the Cavs had won the game. It wasn’t pretty — a 32-point lead was shaved all the way down to 10 in the fourth quarter. James wasn’t supposed to play the fourth, but he was re-inserted when it became clear that no combination of subs was going to keep the Suns at bay.
James scored 18 points and eight assists and tied – but didn’t surpass – Mark Price (4,206) for the franchise’s record in career assists, even though James had those extra opportunities in a fourth quarter he was supposed to watch from the bench.
He added six rebounds and shot 6-of-16, with just three points at halftime. A three-pointer at 7:05 game him 10 points for the game, extending his streak of consecutive games in double figures to 626 games – third longest in NBA history.
So if you really want to reach, you could make a (flimsy) argument that James’ streak was saved by the headband. He only had two points before he tore it off.
James buried another three with 2:04 left in the fourth quarter that sealed the win for the Cavs by pushing their lead to 15. But it was a game that should’ve been sealed long ago.
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