LeBron Shoves David Blatt During Argument With Ref

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LeBron Shoves David Blatt During Argument With Ref

LeBron James shoved his coach David Blatt while they were both arguing with the referee.

LeBron James has not even been back for a full game and we've already got some more player-coach intrigue. LeBron was called for an offensive foul during the second quarter in Phoenix, a call with which he disagreed mightily. He got in the face of the referee Eric Lewis, as did his coach, David Blatt. As all three men exchanged words, LeBron was trying to ease Blatt out of the way and then he just straight up shoved him. The look on Blatt's face is pretty incredulous, since he just got shoved by one of the only athletes in sports who could get away with doing something like that.

Don't worry about unrest, though, Cleveland. First of all, it's probably not a big deal and closer to the broadcast's theory of preventing a technical for Blatt than a sign of disrespect. Also, this sort of happened before, don't you remember? LeBron had a similar, though not quite as obvious, run-in with Erik Spoelstra early on in Miami. And that turned out pretty well! Except for the leaving-a-few-years-later part, of course.