Coach John Beilein apologizes to Cavs, says he meant to call his players ‘slugs,’ not ‘thugs’

January 9, 2020

After stunning his players in a film session Wednesday with a verbal suggestion that they were no longer playing “like a bunch of thugs,” Cleveland Cavaliers coach John Beilein later reached out to players individually to insist he instead meant to use the word “slugs.”

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