Virtually every team I’ve checked in with on the ground in Central Florida brought up the same subject first: Cleveland’s winter of discontent.
I’ve been hearing rumbles in coaching circles for weeks, amazingly, that pressure is indeed mounting on Cavaliers coach Kenny Atkinson, but I frankly struggled to believe such chatter. Atkinson, after all, is the NBA’s reigning Coach of the Year and is only in his second season on the Cavaliers’ bench.