How the Cavaliers managed to lose Lebron James twice (Part 1)
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Part 1 of how the Cavaliers managed to lost Lebron James twice in his career. - กีฬา
All the major events that led to the Cavaliers finding a way to lose one of the greatest players ever not once, but twice (P.1)
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Good vid just wondering when you posting more 2k videos to finish up before next year 2k or at least confirm you're doing that or a myleague next year
Dom2k for part 1 management didn’t know what to do with a talent of Lebrons caliber so they kind of just yeeted some interesting contracts and failed badly
Dom2k🤓 Bron brought one home for the LAND tho... One @ Won
Dom2k I hope you upload part 2 very soon, bro.
Dom2k people don't mention this when they say lebron was a traitor even though he had no choice
This video only needs to be two words long. Dan Gilbert.
JR.screwed him once. Gilbert screwed up twice
Gilbert gave Lebron everything he wanted. Gilbert lost $40 million the year the Cavs won the NBA Finals and he spent a record amount of money(over $200 million)on the team this year to entice him to stay. Lebron is just an ungrateful child and that's why Gilbert is glad he is finally rid of him
tmaz85 all Gilbert could offer Lebron was his deep pockets
eoe123321 yet he promised them a championship...
delonte west
Yea I was pissed af when the Cavs didn't get Studemire in 2010, I knew it was over. We could have seen LeBron vs Kobe in the finals smh
The main reason why the Cavs lost to the Magic in 2009 was because the all the Cavs had were LeBron while the Magic had more star power
@@ChiefBlue4298 LeBron said he didn’t hold his end. That series was close game 1 they blew a lead and were a game winner away from goin 2-0. Game 4 was close and game 5 they won by close to 10. If they won game 1 and 4 they’d win the series.
@@controversialmann5345 LeBron was cappin hard. LeBron James averages 38-8-8 that series he not only held his end but he ain’t have no help
@@controversialmann5345 yea but star players always take the blame he won’t throw teammates and possible for friends under the bus dude averaged 38 8 8 and shooting like 53 percent from the field and in the two wins cleavland got he hit the game winner and had a triple double in game 5 his next best player mo Williams averaged like 15 points on 37 percent shooting not calling that cavs team scrubs cause they were good defensively but on offense dude had zero help
Would’ve been crazy
Hey Dom loves your vids but would love for you to finish the greatest playoff series ever loved those vids
Hearddddd
Word
Or case for goat
id rather “case for the goat” to be brought back lol
preach man
They pass up stoudamire for big men who avg 8 ppg and 4rpg 😂😂 damn!!!
Wdr48 JDA I wouldn't think twice to accept the trade
They thought JJ Hickson had potential lol
@@pp3k3jamail man, they had one of the greatest players to ever play, if not the best! If he asks for help, you don't go for JJ Hickson, you go for Amar'e, and if it works out, he stays, and if it doesn't, then at least you showed that you actually want to compete.
Legend says that Dom2k will upload part 3 of the greatest playoff series when the Warriors lose in the finals
3-1
Never forget.
Th3 Kool Aid Man you right 3-1 vs Lebron in finals. Curry >>>
Don't even like Lebron myself, but curry is not even close to the same level as Lebron. It takes that much talent, the Warriors, to beat the man.
Dude. That finals was rigged and you know it
Th3 Kool Aid Man Lebron and Windhorst protesting,
JR Smith tackle ending Bogut's career...
Kiki Vanderwedghe shutting down Draymond Green in Game 5...
I haven't forgot.
Step 1: Lose C. Boozer
Step 2: receive Larry Hughes instead of R. Allen
Step 3: Celtics build super team big 3
Step 4: Ben Wallace and Shaq at latter days
Step 5: Amare trade miss; receive Antwan Jamison
Kobe fans just gonna ignore those times he kept asking to be traded in 2005-2007
Kobe asked to be traded during the 07 off-season thats it
General G. Cameron as well as the early 2000’s and 2005-2007
@@wanilimbe kinda earned it lakers wernt respecting him imo
I actually didn’t know that!
@@wanilimbe phil jackson tried to trade HIM in the early 00’s
The most amazing thing about the cavs is that they only won one chip with Lebron James. That really is an achievement in incompetence.
They won 4 total playoff series before lebron...and only 1 in the 70's and 80's mid to late 90's and 2000's and now after lebron as well combined lol
“If you want to see your hometown team play download the seat geek app”.
Pauses video, looks at Space Needle and exhales before continuing video.
Zakeel Gordon Feels your pain
#SonicBoom_Headshot
Sorry man. Seattle definitely deserves an NBA team
Going to the preseason game at the key?
If Cavs didn't have the number 1 pick in 2003, Dan Gilbert will go down as one of the wrost GM in history.
Dan Gilbert is one of if not the worst owner in sport's
Leanne Fresquez I see ur Dan Gilbert and raise you James Dolan.
The worst
Niccolò Machiavelli I see your James Dolan and raise you Donald Sterling
Controversial Radio I see your Donald Sterling and raies you Alex Spanos.
Alvin Johnson I see your alex spanos and not raise you bob myers
11 years and one title with the goat, thank you for wasting his career cLeveland
@@michaelkirschner6009 the day the nba wasn’t the same
Bro wtf happened to the best playoff series in history Part (Series) (The Boston v. Bulls Series)
Still waiting for a new episode
What about cases for G.O.A.T
Bull vs Celtics was trash
Johnny Kilroy 2009, not 2017
Can we please get the rest of the Case for the GOAT series?
DOM WHERES THE NEXT CASE FOR GOAT, YOU STARTED THE SERIES IN 2016 AND WE HAVE TWO EPISODES WTF
This man always uploads great content. Would love to see him make a video on either Jordan in his Wizards years, or give his take on what it means to actually make your teammates better cause there is always a whole debate/argument on that
LeBron still had every right to leave again this summer. I said in my video that that roster was complete trash. They were lucky to even get to the ECF IMO if it wasnt for Bron
Like, really. Those players had no business in The NBA Finals
Jsmoove TV If they were able to do what they do well occasionally and not just cater to James' game it could've been proven otherwise. Not to mention James was never there on defensive rotations.
Jsmoove TV Yeah but didnt he push the management to do these dumb moves (overpaying players like JR, trading for a hipless IT and a weak 3 and D player)
They were complete trash because Lebron James Iso Offense only caters to Spot Up Shooters and Guards that can score.
Lebron didn't want to trade for IT, he didn't want Kyrie traded, and he never said to overpay JR like crazy, he jsut wanted him signed. Lebron was forced to pay ISo ball because the rest of his team sucked and couldn't hit their shots, the narrative that he plays ISO is a retarded one made by people who don't watch the Cavs play.
To be honest if he didn’t push for JR and Tristan to get paid then they could’ve possibly brought in more people.
RetroSuperFuture They still wouldn't have.
Ben H those two contracts are the reason they don’t have any cap space.
Not certain with this point, but I heard somewhere that they already had negative cap space before that point
Troll King Lebron getting paid 33 mill in his second to last year didn't matter because by then, they were well above the cap. They already were like 3 million above the cap, so Lebron's contract essentially was not gonna do anything to affect the cap.
RetroSuperFuture they had Bledsoe and George coming in on draft night if Lebron agreed to stay in Cleveland. But he didn’t sign because obviously, now that he’s in LA, he didn’t want to be in Cleveland
I really respect your knowledge and storytelling videos mate👌So interesting, very enjoyable.Subscribed and shared.
When you got to the part where Stoudemire was potentially on the the table and they didn't take him, my jaw dropped. That's INSANE!
Both Jordan and Kobe would have left the Cavs if they'd been in LeBron's shoes in 2010. Just throwing that out there.
Excuse keep staring at stats
After lebron joined the cavs in 2014
He got Jr smith paid
Thompson got paid
Shumpert got paid
Kevin love has a awful contract
The team still has negative cap space
I'm not hating on lebron is a freak of nature but let's not be biased like Colin Cowerd
Channel Channel *May I remind you that he did have Smush Parker and Kwame Brown?*
Lebron was not the one who gave JR, TT, or Shump those awful contracts. He pushed for the Cavs to sign them, that's it. It's the Cavs management's fault for being incompetent. Also, the Cavs were over the cap at that point, so it didn't seem to matter much how much TT, Shump, or JR got paid since Gilbert and his billions of dollars could've paid the luxury tax if he had to.
Opinion. Lebron would have quit and worked at McDonald's if he played in Jordan's era
Tcs 10s he really didn’t...
Loving this content, keep it up Dom. Also do you think Dame to the Lakers is actually a possibility?
brij gautam no way that's happening, LA would have to get rid of so much for him
another great video Dom2k cant wait for part 2
Looking forward to part 2 and im still on the ad i know this a banger dom!
Cavs fans are salty af watching this knowing they never deserved lebron and this past season proved it
Not the fans fault it's the organization how they didn't deserve lebron before there were lebron fans cavs fans were lebron fans lol
true
The kyrie trade ruined everything after that the roster and their management just went down after that , they traded kyrie for an injured , undersized, point guard that has been the main scorer of his team until he got traded and than they went out and signed injury riddled and diva bench players besides jae crowder and they experimented with over 100 different starting lineups. the chemistry was low too should I mention.
love your vids dom!
Dom2k always makes fire videos!
Another series that won't be finished
"The NBA's most incompetent franchise"
oh, no, not while the Timberwolves exist.
This channel is awesome, so great analysis
2:35 Oh my god! 😂😂 Dom you're such a goat. I haven't seen that clip in years. Probably since I was in first grade! Damn time flies 😂
Just the truth.
I'll tell you the reason they lost him the second time, it's not because of Gilbert, J.R. or even Kyrie or the Warriors... it was because they gave him too much. They were soooo afraid of losing him again, especially with him signing one year deals with player options, they bent over backwards and let him do whatever he wanted, let him have input on personnel decisions, contracts, the coaching staff, everything.. in Miami Pat Riley, Mickey Arison, and Erik Spoelstra had control over those decisions.. In Cleveland, LeBron was the GM, President of Operations, and Coach..the Cavs let him trade away Dion, bring in Washed up guys like Shump n J.R. then give his guys like Smith, Iman, and Thompson massive contracts that would bloat the team flexibility, let guys like Delly go (I would've preferred his deal on the roster over the one they gave Smith or Shumpert) then they allow him to sacrifice the team's future by trading Kyrie away. And aquiring bad deals like Clarkson and Hill. And how does he repay them after they literally did everything and got everyone he wanted them too? He bails and leaves them with the bloated salaries, no future draft picks, no Kyrie, and now no LeBron. I couldn't believe he would leave them in worse shape this time, but he did. I always thought that he had a secret handshake deal with Dan that once he retired a Cav in a few years Gilbert would sell him the team. But now Fuck him, hope he never comes back, I guarantee he'll leave the Lakers in worse shape too when all is said and done. All those young players n picks and that cap space? Will be gone in 2 years or less. I wish they would've learned from the Lakers and the Shaq Kobe beef (don't trade the young player, trade the 32 year old closer to the end of his prime) lol Should've traded Bron for a King's ransom lol Pun intended
LOVE THE VIDS
THANK YOU ✊🏾 this video was on point.
I couldn’t believe they chose Larry Hughes over joe Johnson smh 🤦🏽♂️ I just remember them screaming like hell and angry for not throwing the max at Johnson.
There management sucks & he had no team around him. Cavs going 19-63 next season after half the roster leaves LOL!!!!
Mr.Sauceman X their*
The roster sucks because it's lebron's roster. He pushed the front office to sign his buddies instead of giving young players a chance to develop. The real coach and gm of the cavs was lebron
hmoobmeeka and that makes the front office and coaching staff terrible.
Mr.Sauceman X well clarkson said otherwise hehehehe
Vitor Hara Love is easily a 28-10 guy you don’t watch basketball fr
Great video..like always..
Always quality videos and commentary from you, @Dom2k!
Even when I don't personally agree with your points (other videos, not this one) your points are always WELL RESEARCHED, and PRESENTED COHERENTLY.
A lot of TH-camrs could learn a helluva lesson from you. Keep up the great work... subbed on my backup account now, for a second sub. :)
Some organizations are just trash.... It happens
Naw the Kings are the most incompetent franchise.
6:52 tbh I wasn't even listening, I was focused on those great passes from LeBron and Shaq😂😂😂
Great vid
Do a video on the likelihood of MJ's first retirement actually being a suspension for gambling
Interesting theory. I googled it after seeing this comment. There is a lot of circumstantial evidence, but no smoking gun
Kal Path i think that the circumstantial evidence is damning. When asked if he would’ve come back to the nba, mj replied, “if david stern lets me” very fishy
Wow NBA stories are like anime😯
Boi i'm still waiting for the best playoff series of all time part 3.. come on man!
Being from Cleveland watching Lebron since I was toddler and I literally witnessed it firsthand it still hurts
Dom I love your videos, but there's one small, minor detail in this one I cant help be notice. When you were talking about other greats and how they went into a great situation, it felt like you were reaching when it came to Jordan. Prior to Pippen and Jackson, the Bulls really didnt give Jordan any help at all, his most notable teammate before Pippen was George Gervin who was way past his prime. Though things did turn around for Jordan unlike LeBron, it felt more like luck than anything else.
I don't really think that was a reach tbh. Jordan was drafted in 84, pip was drafted in 87, Phil came along in 89, and most of the core of the 3 peat championship team in the early 90s was constructed in the 5 years between Mike's arrival and Phil's. Meanwhile in Cleveland, LeBron didn't have any help whatsoever. He accomplished everything he did in Cleveland from 03-10 pretty much despite what he had around him.
Great video, but hindsight is always 20/20. Those Cavs teams were still very good and there’s no guarantee of any of those hypothetical moves would have lead to success.
That is true, but Stoudimire would have given them a second option that was under 30, and Amare was a top 3 PF at the time. Yes the risk of Amare leaving, or the series of injuries in 2012 would make him useless, but the cost to take such a risk was so low I can't see how Dan Gilbert would not take it.
Nice vid dom2k
I’m from Cleveland and I completely agree with everything you said through out this entire video.
Even with amare that 2010 Cavs team was not going to be the Lakers
LeBron not committing long term hurt him. I don’t blame the Cavs at all this second go around. LeBron always signing 1 year deals wouldn’t get other superstars there. This on LBJ.
souldrum86
Sign LeBron with a "no trade" clause
or
Don't sign LeBron
#ChooseWisely
Mr Apocalypse
1+1 =/= 2, in this context.
If he opts out after year one, there is no "2nd year".
One year + "first refusal" = 1, not 2.
Lebron leaving gave them the chance to draft good players... Otherwise they would have gotten worse.
Darrian Nelson now what happened today?? are they better without lebron?? stfu
@@user-zk5zx4ru9k they have a chip 😂
Dom should win an award for his transitions into his ads.
Dom is TOO Smooth With The SeatGeek App Advertisement 😂😂😂
Uh, prime Kobe and prime Gasol and DEFINITELY beat prime Lebron and prime Stoudemire
L
In 6, maybe 5.
Prime LeBron was a one man army capable of winning 60+ games. Kobe could never do that.
Eduardo Navarrete
Yes, he can. Give Lebron smush parker and Kwame Brown and i GUARANTEE he wont win anywhere near 60 games. Kobe won 65 games with basically only Gasol and Odom.
Nope.
Greatest playoff series of all time pt 3 please
I'm just happy I got see this man play in person the last 4 years
Who wanna live in Cleveland?
Edward Girard Flores When you find out, I'll know; til then, hope you've food & blankets 🤣🤣
Columbus ohio better we have beaches and the most baddest lightskins in the state lol lebron should have been born in columbus
No
spiderman there’s beaches in Columbus? Where are they? I wanna know
They lost LeBron because it's CLEVELAND
Alexander Jael Liked, shared & subscribed.
Fax
James Richardson And without him, they wouldn’t BE in the finals..
James Richardson So Terry Rozier and Jaylen brown bricking shots in game 7 of the ECF was the refs fault? Funny.
Dom when u going to finish the bulls vs celtics playoff vids!!!
Your videos are great. One little tidbit you forgot to mention is that jj Hickson and Bron were really good friends and that factored into the decision of whether to trade him or not.
LEBRON AND PRIME AMARE??? LAKERS IN 6
riqo steel r???
Since when did LeBron James play for Akron? Last time I checked, that’s FOURTY MILES FROM CLEVELAND!!!! IM SO TIRED OF HEARING THAT ITS HIS “HOMETOWN TEAM.” HES NOT FROM CLEVELAND!!!!
Oh shut the fuck up. It is the closest NBA team to Akron. You know what he means
King Bradberry did I ask for your pathetic answer? No, I don’t know what he’s talking about. If he meant home state, he would’ve said home state, not town. What if he was from across the state in a place like Cincinnati? It’s still the closest team.
Famous TH-camr then its home town. Shut the fuck up
King Bradberry LeBron didn’t even grow up a cavs fan. Cleveland meant nothing to him until he was drafted
King Bradberry still not his home town.
Love your videos Dom.. But could you please go back to the original intro instrumental? Or the original Athletic Cases promo thing.. lol
These Be Da Quickest 11 Minutes EVA‼️
Celtics Big 3/ Bad Management Part 1:
You’re welcome
So for everyone who loves blaming Lebron for the Cavs problems like the Cavs were this great franchise before he got there. I need to know how many years before we call Cavs contenders in the east again?
NBAofficialNoWhistle
I need to know why he'd chose a bad franchise he'd already left... you broke up for a reason.
Darren Gordon-Hill he chose winning a title for his city not the franchise plus having Kyrie and assets at the time helped. shouldve stayed in Miami tho
Smooth transition into that seat geek ad 😂😂😂
Your transitions into promoting seat geek are flawless lol
Lebron overpaying his friends like JR and Tristan caused him to leave again. Fact. He should stop trying to play GM
And those guys were represented by Lebron's own agency. So he basically paid himself again twice by getting them paid over market value
Ryan Wilson say that louder brother.
Ryan Wilson Bruh the Cavs still made terrible moves. They didn't want to trade the pick or trade for Paul George.
that's why he went to the lakers where they have a good front office
Ryan Wilson yeah lebron does the contracts things he is a player
Worst NBA organization.
Orlando Magic
Alan Velasco lol was just gonna write that....diehard magic fan here
Kings, Magic, Cavs, Knicks, Nets.
if LeBron wasn’t born in Cleveland the Cavs would easily be the worst franchise in sports history. LeBron would have no obligation to ever be in Cleveland and to deliver them their first ring, the Cavs just got so lucky that their team was located in a place that’s basically his hometown. Literally one player keeps the Cavs from being the undisputed worst franchise in sports history. At least the Kings were able to make a Championship-level team, basically dominated like a Superteam without a single All-Star, obviously they didn’t win a ring because of the refs rigging the shit out of th WCF, the Nets made a team that made it to the Finals, the Magic is arguable for worst franchise in the NBA currently, the Knicks are also bad. But the Cavs literally never had any successful seasons without LeBron in the last 20+ years, before he was there, after he left, and now he’s gone again, now we’re going to see just how shit of a franchise the Cavs are once again...
Steph Curry the 2x FRAUD nah the Kings are worse than the magic. At least they made it to the finals twice
G.O.A.T seried part 3 dude ? Great video btw
Do Greatest Playoff Series of All-Time Part 3!
Frick all y’all the lakers finna win the chip with Le🐐
CLUTCHNESS_ 2003 ever heard of the warriors?
Scalabrine Fan the warriors are gonna get beat cause they’re not physical enough
Hope you're joking because I will come back to this when the Warriors win again and you complain that Lebron didn't have enough help.
CLUTCHNESS_ 2003 what r u talking about, did u forget about boogie, the man who would kill a ref over a foul?
CLUTCHNESS_ 2003 The Fuck does the laker have compared to the warriors? They have a better bench better starting 5 along with a better matchup for them with a. Great coach
If I am the Cavs I say good riddance now you can create an actual basketball team and not just a bunch of floor spacers who can’t defend just to suit one guys game
Kendall Green so you are t grateful for that ring in 2016?
You must not watch much NBA, most teams run 4 out and set high screens with 3 point snipers. That literally compliments Lebrons play style 100%
PREACH
Ikr, that's why I get frustrated when people say the Cavs were only built to suit LeBron, first of all every team plays like that now a days!
Deangelo Carter I’m not a cavs fan so I could care less lol
Part 2 should be a 10minute loop of JR Smith dribbling out the clock in the finals
YOU BETTER FINISH THE BOSTON VS CHICAGO SERIES SOON
I find it funny how people still crucify Dan Gilbert and Tyronn Lue when they did everything that Lebron wanted and everything they could do for someone who wasn't willing to commit to a long term deal with the team
Did you watch this video?
BEDCORN I think we watched two different videos. There’s no way you gathered that from what Dom said.
Lol bruh the whole point of the video flew over your head
Yeah lebron was like get rid of kyrie for a pick a rook a banged up point guard and a sad excuse for a 3 and D guy.
Dude Dan Gilbert was the acting GM and declined a trade that would land them Paul George for Kevin Love. But he backed out because PG or LBJ wouldn’t sign long term but they were going to sign long term when they were lifting the Larry O
Patrick Beverly is better than LeBron James. Like if you agree.
Chan Ming yeah but it's close
Chan Ming
He is not. Learn about basketball you fucking loser.
Patrick Beverly is a solid player
Lmaoo wrong
Slow down on the hot takes man
dom makin bank wit all these damn ads
Dude what song did you use in the background I can’t find it?
dpistons149 fr
It's an amazing feat that this franchise got a championship, one of the greatest championships.
LMAO, Ginobli at 5:13.
Plz continue the series with the 2ks games and the greatest playoff Series of all time
My dude said "Demarcus Cousins Thanos snap" LMAO
That Ratchet and Clank soundtrack at the beginng... Is FIRE!!!
Dom a 🐐
Saw that this was the only video that didn’t get demonetized, since he spoke out about his partnership with the nba. Making sure someone gets his money
Man the first stint in CLE was fun times
dom what happened with the 2k rating series?
What music is used for this video?
Bro where’s the 2k vid 😂 I’m very excited for it
THE FLOP BY MANU AT 5:15 LMAOOO
I love the sci fi music
We gonna just ignore that flop at 5:14 lol
Shaq with the assist though 🔥☄️🔥🔥🍗
Dom what’s that superman type theme song u use?