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Ex-Cavaliers General Manager David Griffin, who signed off on several
of these types of deals while he was in Cleveland, said it’s
“unsustainable” to franchises while featuring as a guest on
The Bill Simmons Podcast:
在Bill Simmons的Podcast中，前騎士GM David Griffin提到他在克里夫蘭所簽過的
幾次（給LBJ的）短約：「對球隊來說那是不長久的。」
“When LeBron is on a one-year contract every year, you don’t get to
be sustainable, you don’t get to be Danny Ainge. You don’t get to
play that game, those aren’t the cards you’re being dealt. You have
to win right now and put (LeBron) in a position and a frame of mind
where he belives he’s going to win in the future. Everything that
happens because he’s on one-year deals for the absolute maximum amount
of money is an unsustainable formula. So to some degree, he puts himself
in that situation as well. I think he appreciates that because it’s
what gives him to ability to make make Cleveland do what they did
(at the trade deadline). He doesn’t care if Cleveland has nothing left if
he walks. He cares that Cleveland believes in him enough to invest in him.”
「當姆斯每年都在簽一年約的時候，你是沒有辦法做長久打算的，你沒有辦法像
Danny Ainge那樣操作，你沒有辦法那樣玩，你手上不會有那些牌。
你必須要贏在當下，而且讓姆斯處在一個他會相信自己未來能贏的情況中，由於
他在一個一年頂薪的合約狀態，因此發生的事都是不會長久的。
所以某種程度上，他讓自己陷入這個情況。我相信他偏好這個情況，因為這讓他
有能力逼使克里夫蘭做（他們在交易截止日之前做）的事。
他並不在乎如果他離開後克里夫蘭一無所有，他在乎的是克里夫蘭足夠相信他以
至於願意在他身上投資。」
短評：
"My relationship with Northeast Ohio is bigger than basketball."
<I'm coming home> by LeBron James, 2014