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Dan Gilbert couldn’t even get through the John Beilein introductory press conference without having a Dan Gilbert moment where he was trying to be cute — like normal — and made a fool out of himself by trying to describe where Michigan is in relation to Ohio. You already knew Gilbert is an idiot, but now we know Dan is such an idiot that he’s confused on which way his private jet flies when he goes home from work in Cleveland.
Just watch how Dan navigates the waters when all he had to say was, “I’d like to introduce our new basketball coach John Beilein.” It was so simple that it was over Dan’s pay grade.
I hope good guy John Beilein fully understands what he’s gotten himself into with this yahoo as the owner. I know John wants to fill out that basketball coaching resume, but this is going to be a whole new ballgame dealing with Weirdo Dan and his ways.
While I’m at it with Gilbert and his ways, let’s go back to when LeBron told the Cavs to get a new plane and they (his words) didn’t listen to him until this happened:
But I always felt something could happen to this plane. It was painted the old Cavs colors, Carolina blue and orange. It was the old plane, and they owned it. The team owned it. But it was over. I noticed it, and this was the first year our new regime took over the team. I was like, ‘Listen, if you want to start with helping us become a better franchise, we need a new f****** plane.’
So anyways, long story short, we take the plane from Cleveland…and we go to Detroit to pick up the ownership because that’s where they’re based at. So we go to Detroit, pick up everybody in Detroit, and we’re now taking the plane from Detroit to Houston. When I tell you every single person on the plane from Detroit to Houston thought they were going to die, I mean literally.”
Our owner’s wife was pregnant at the time. She threw up multiple times. A couple of my family members—DJ Montage—threw up. Our stewardess broke her ankle. We looked into the kitchen at one point during the flight and there was smoke coming out of the kitchen. The lights were flickering on and off. I was like, ‘Oh my God, no one wants to listen to me. I believe this is it.’ Obviously, I’m still here to talk about it. Nothing happened. But the following year, we had a new plane.
There you have it, Dan Gilbert will forever be that guy. Bumbling fool. Yes, built a mortgage company. Doesn’t make him some sort of common sense genius.