The Cleveland Cavaliers have proven vital enchancment over the previous few seasons, however they really feel they’ll do higher with a special head coach.
Cavaliers head coach J.B. Bickerstaff was knowledgeable on Thursday that he has been fired, in response to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.
Bickerstaff finishes with a file of 170-159 within the common season with Cleveland. He took over as interim head coach when John Beilein was fired in 2020 and was later named full-time coach.
The Cavaliers reached the playoffs final season beneath Bickerstaff for the primary time since LeBron James left in 2018. They misplaced within the first spherical however made the postseason once more this 12 months, advancing to the Jap Convention semifinals and dropping to the Boston Celtics in 5 video games.
Even with the respectable outcomes, there had been studies that Bickerstaff’s possibilities of returning to the Cavs for a sixth season had been slim.
Firing the 45-year-old Bickerstaff may very well be simply one in every of a number of large modifications the Cavaliers plan to make this offseason. There has additionally been discuss that they might look to make a serious commerce.
