LeBron James certainly turned lots of heads and raised plenty of eyebrows with his comments after the team’s loss to the Heat. After the team’s fifth loss in six games, he publicly called out the front office and franchise for the collective failure (so far) to compete at the highest level this season.
While it was viewed as a not-so-thinly-veiled message to the front office to do anything to improve the roster, it could also pretty easily be seen as a message to the roster itself that they aren’t good enough. It does not, however, appear to have come across that way to the team itself, or at least all of them.