{"id":135120,"date":"2020-02-19T18:17:54","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T17:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=135120"},"modified":"2020-02-19T18:18:13","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T17:18:13","slug":"some-cavs-players-sang-songs-hat-included-the-word-thug-whenever-beilein-was-within-earshot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/some-cavs-players-sang-songs-hat-included-the-word-thug-whenever-beilein-was-within-earshot\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Cavs players sang songs that included the word \u201cthug\u201d whenever Beilein was within earshot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After coach John Beilein <a href=\"\/?p=125002\">mistakenly<\/a>, according to his words, called his players \u201cThugs\u201d instead of \u201cSlugs\u201d, some Cavaliers athletes started singing songs that included the word \u201cthug\u201d whenever Beilein was within earshot.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theathletic.com\/1619192\/2020\/02\/19\/inside-the-failed-john-beilein-cavs-experiment-and-a-franchise-culture-problem\/\">Per The Athletic<\/a>, a number of the players never really embraced his explanation. In fact, some of them thought it was an insult to their intelligence, one player told\u00a0<em>The Athletic<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was no coming back from that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, multiple players began playing songs that included the word \u201cthug\u201d whenever Beilein was within earshot, sources said: Bone Thugz-n-Harmony\u2019s \u201cThuggish Ruggish Bone\u201d and Tupac\u2019s \u201cThugz Mansion\u201d among them. As the team boarded the bus a few days after the incident, one player was intentionally playing Trick Daddy\u2019s \u201cI\u2019m a Thug\u201d with Beilein a few feet away. Other players blasted songs with the word \u201cthug\u201d loudly during workouts in the facility. Players did this to make light of a very tough situation, according to one team source.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe worst part to me was not owning that he said it,\u201d one player told\u00a0<em>The Athletic<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beilein left the Cavaliers despite a multi-year contract<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[92],"tags":[440,7866],"rumors":[],"typology":[21],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-135120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-john-beilein","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135120"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=135120"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=135120"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=135120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}