The Cleveland Cavaliers lost their third straight game on Sunday at the hands of the Los Angeles Clippers, 120-118. They concluded their recent five-game Western Conference road trip with a 1-4 record. The Cavs’ struggles are coming at a terrible time for the squad as they’ve now fallen to fifth in the East with a 46-33 record.
At this point, there is still a possibility that Cleveland falls out of the Top 6 and ends up needing to go through the Play-In Tournament to secure a playoff berth.
Cleveland Cavaliers Rumors: Do-or-Die for J.B. Bickerstaff in Playoffs
One man who has taken the short end of the stick throughout the Cavs’ downturn is head coach J.B. Bickerstaff. So much so, that the 45-year-old is now reportedly in danger of losing his job.
In fact, an anonymous NBA executive told Ashish Mathur of Hoops Wire that Cleveland’s front office was actually already on the brink of firing Bickerstaff earlier in the campaign:
“JB could get fired if the Cavs don’t make it to the conference finals,” the exec said. “He was almost fired earlier in the season before the team got its act together. There are people inside that organization who can’t fathom how a team with Donovan Mitchell and Darius Garland is so poor at scoring the ball.
“JB is 100% on the hot seat and he knows it.”
The front office clearly has some high expectations for this group and apparently, anything less than a trip to the Eastern Conference Finals will be considered a disappointment. Unfortunately for Bickerstaff, this could likely lead to him getting the axe if he is unable to reach the team’s targets.
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