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Right now, Dwayne Casey and David Blatt are in a dimly lit dive bar commiserating over how the fuck they got canned after stellar seasons. Just two days after the Raptors’ head coach’s peers voted him ‘Coach of the Year,’ the Raptors organization has tossed him aside.
Toronto has fired coach Dwane Casey, league source tells ESPN.
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) May 11, 2018
As ESPN points out, in the Raptors’ 23 years in the NBA, they only have three 50-win seasons, ALL of which have come under Casey. This season alone, Casey won more regular season games (59) than any in franchise history, secured a number one seed, beat up on the Wizards in the first round, only to meet its nightmare. Again.
This tweet is funny, because it’s true.
BREAKING: Toronto Raptors owner Lebron James has fired Dwayne Casey
— Isaiah (@iZayuh) May 11, 2018
In the past three seasons, Casey and the Raptors have been bounced by LeBron in convincing fashion. Swept this year, swept last year, eliminated in six games in 2016.
Dwayne Casey, who just got voted Coach of the Year, getting fired because Lebron scares the players into mediocrity, is not cool.
— Jonathan McReynolds (@jonmcreynolds) May 11, 2018
Dwayne Casey = Scapegoat
— Myles Garrett (@Flash_Garrett) May 11, 2018
Casey is in good company with coaches getting laid off this year–he marks the NINTH coach to lose his job. He also joins George Karl in being canned less than a month after being named NBA Coach of the Year (Karl won the official COTY, not the coaches vote one).
Hey guys, do you think I’m funny?…
Keohan
Seriously though, LeBron needs to send Casey and Edible Arrangements or something for being the sole reason he’s now unemployed.