ESPN Reported The Cavaliers ‘Don’t Like Each Other’ Before The Minnesota Game


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The Cavaliers are dysfunctional. This comes as no surprise to anyone who has watched them over the past month or read any of the reports that have come out of Cleveland recently.

From a disastrous team meeting that saw Kevin Love get questioned over the legitimacy of an illness and LeBron curse at executives, to Isaiah Thomas’ recent comments about the Cavs going “separate ways” any time there is adversary, to Isaiah Thomas and Tyronn Lue having a mini spat through the media, things are not going well in Cleveland’s locker room. That said, it’s still rather startling to turn on a national television broadcast and hear someone outright say a team source says the team flat out doesn’t like each other.

That’s what happened on Wednesday night as the Cavs took on the Timberwolves on ESPN. Sideline reporter Cassidy Hubbarth cited a team source that told her the problem isn’t basketball, but that the players simply “don’t like each other.”

It’s not really a shocking revelation given everything we’ve heard about the Cavs over the past couple of months, but it still caused plenty of viewers to chuckle at the frankness of the report and such a matter of fact quote about guys flat out not liking each other coming from a team source.

With 18 hours until the trade deadline, one would think some kind of shakeup is coming to the Cavs locker room. The biggest key for the front office just might be getting the right guys out of there and making it a little less hostile of a place.

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