NEW ORLEANS -- Cavs majority owner Dan Gilbert had two vice chairmen on his leadership team. Now, he has a half of one.
Jeff Cohen is out as vice chairman and Nathan Forbes, while maintaining his title has lost influence with Gilbert and is spending very little time on Cavs business, multiple sources with knowledge of the Cavs' ownership structure told cleveland.com.
Both men, Cohen and Forbes, are maintaining their small ownership stakes in the team right now, and a source was unaware of any immediate plans on Gilbert's part to buy either of them out.
The two were "extensions" of Gilbert within the Cavs, according to one source, offering input on major trades and organizational decisions presented to Gilbert by general manager David Griffin.