2023-07-25 17:50:00
In the NBA, results are paramount if a franchise is to have any chance of keeping its best players. Some people get annoyed by repeated defeats quite quickly and ask to leave. This was also the case for a Cavs player when LeBron James arrived…
The NBA is one of the fastest growing sports leagues. Transfer requests can arrive at any time, and one of the most important parameters is obviously related to sports results. When a team takes too long to build an ambitious squad, players can become annoyed with their situation and therefore develop desires elsewhere.
When LeBron James arrived in the league, the Cavaliers were coming out of many seasons with catastrophic results. It had indeed been five consecutive years that Cleveland did not even finish in the Top 10 of the Eastern Conference, and if his signing was able to restore some enthusiasm to the franchise, we can understand that those who experienced this slump ended up frustrated …
A former LeBron teammate happy to have left him!
Among them is Ricky Davis. Arrived from Miami in 2001, he quickly became the captain of this mediocre team by floating as best he could. In two seasons, he unfortunately only had 46 wins in 164 games. Such a low percentage of success can end up disgusting, and so he decided to leave despite the arrival in the Draft of LeBron James. He entrusts to Insidehoops.com that he does not regret this choice:
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I had grown tired of losing. Leaving them (LeBron James and the Cavs, editor’s note) was the best thing that could have happened to me. We had a great kid with LeBron in the Draft but we still didn’t know how to win games. It was a team, mental and physical problem. In Boston there were good players and we knew how to win games.
With the Cavs, we had a good team with me, LeBron, Carlos Boozer or Darius Miles. Opposite, they were as fast as us but better because they had systems and organization. I made it clear to Cleveland that I wanted to be traded.
The year Davis left, the Cavs doubled their number of wins over the previous season but had to wait until 2006 to make the playoffs.
For his part, the swing-man who left for Boston did not really find the expected stability since he only had one full season with the C’s before joining Minnesota. If he was tired of chaining defeats with Cleveland, he should perhaps have been patient to witness the advent of the King. By staying in Ohio, he could have known the only Finals of his career in 2007 against San Antonio…
Sometimes, waiting one or two more years in a complicated climate can bring you great success. Leaving the Cavs in 2004, Ricky Davis therefore missed the debut of LeBron James and the 2007 Finals. However, he admits that he has no regrets as he was disillusioned with the defeats he suffered in Cleveland…
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