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Dan Gilbert: On plane back from NYC. Did that just happen? Again! @cavs will be force in east for years to come. Happy for best fans in world: Cavs fans! Twitter @cavsdan

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Scott Howard-Cooper: Cavaliers win the lottery for the second time in three years. Took Kyrie Irving in 2011. Heading right for Nerlens Noel in 2013. Twitter @SHowardCooper

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Daniel Gibson: WoW!!! NICK the Quick does it again! #1.. Twitter @BooBysWorld1

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Joakim Noah: That Gilbert family is really something... Twitter @JoakimNoah

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Tate Moore will be on a private jet this afternoon with Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert as part of the team’s traveling party for tonight’s NBA draft lottery in New York City. Moore, 20, a 2011 Wadsworth High graduate, won a contest Gilbert held on Twitter in which Cavs fans were asked to submit a 30-second video detailing why they should be selected to attend the lottery, which will be held at ABC Disney’s Times Square Studios. “He tweeted it at noon Friday and the contest was only open for seven hours,” Moore said Monday evening. “I was sitting at my parents’ home in Wadsworth doing nothing, so I thought I had as good a shot as anyone.” Medina County Gazette

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Gilbert, the Quicken Loans chairman and owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers, let loose Thursday morning with a tirade about an April 11 installment of the Fox News show The O’Reilly Factor that depicted Detroit as dying, corrupt wasteland destroyed by 50 years of Democratic rule. “I don’t know how many here saw the Bill O’Reilly thing, but there’s never been a hack job done on an American city in the history of mankind, like what he did a few weeks ago,” Gilbert told a Pancake & Politics breakfast crowd at the Detroit Athletic Club. “It’s probably the single worst thing I’ve seen — forget about Detroit — on any city in the history of mankind,” Gilbert added. “So if you get a chance and you want to get angry and get all crazy, just go out on the Web and pull up the segment he did. It’s just the most irresponsible, worst thing I’ve ever seen.” Detroit Free Press

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O’Reilly, the Fox show’s acerbic host, concluded the 6-minute segment entitled “Detroit in Chaos” by declaring, “Detroit is an iconic city, but it’s through. You have to put it under martial law, and you’d have to suspend all kinds of these crazy laws they have, and you have to bring people in just to oversee it. It’s like the military, you’d have to do like they did with the Marshall Plan after World War II. Cuz it ain’t coming back by civilians.” Detroit Free Press

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Gilbert went off on the O’Reilly show during a panel discussion about efforts to revive Detroit’s downtown and Midtown areas. “There is a fascination with the city of Detroit nationally that is just truly remarkable,” he said earlier, referring to a spate of recent stories by national and foreign news outlets. “I don’t want to call it a perverted fascination … They have the ruin porn stuff that they like to do, but there’s also this other fascination with a great American city and its perceived comeback. I think we’re slowly chipping away at the image … America loves a comeback story.” Detroit Free Press

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Mike Brown: “They reached out to me at the end of last week for the first time and after getting over the initial shock of hearing from these guys again I spoke with my wife and thought about all the things that made this job attractive while I was here to begin with. The level of commitment from Dan Gilbert and his group, the thorough work ethic that Chris Grant and his staff display and you look at the roster with the young nucleus and then with Anderson (Varejao) and then the city and passion that the fans have for not only the Cavs but for all their sports teams, for us it was definitely an exciting thing that we were definitely interested in pressing forward with.” Sports Radio Interviews

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During a discussion on Detroit's future at the annual "Pancakes & Politics" breakfast, savvy businessman Dan Gilbert suggested that the Detroit Pistons move to downtown Detroit. Gilbert is the Chairman and founder of Quicken Loans and is the majority owner of the NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers. The Michigan Gaming Board also approved Gilbert's plan to purchase the majority stake in Detroit's Greektown-Casino Hotel. wxyz.com

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Gilbert compared the crowd that attends NBA games in Cleveland versus attendance numbers for Pistons games at the Palace of Auburn Hills. He told the crowd that on average, attendance numbers for Cleveland NBA games are 15,000 to 16,000 compared to 3,000 to 4,000 for Pistons games in Auburn Hills. wxyz.com

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Mary Schmitt Boyer/Jodie Valade: Gilbert asked about elephant in the room (LeBron in 2014): We understand why it's in the media, it's of interest to everyone. There's so much that happens in an NBA year you can't even speculate. You can't get too far ahead of yourself. Twitter @PDcavsinsider

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Tom Withers: #Cavs owner Dan Gilbert says "it was a mistake" to fire Mike Brown three years ago. Twitter @twithersAP

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The Cleveland Cavaliers have named seven-year NBA veteran head coach and Cavaliers all-time winningest head coach Mike Brown as the team’s new head coach, Cavaliers General Manager Chris Grant and majority owner Dan Gilbert announced today from Cleveland Clinic Courts. NBA.com

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“I am more than excited about Mike Brown’s return to the Cleveland Cavaliers. Mike has done nothing but win in this league since he was a first-year assistant many years ago. He is going to instill a much-needed defensive-first philosophy in our young and talented team that is going to serve as our foundation and identity as we continue down the path of building the kind of franchise that competes at a championship level for many years to come, ” said Gilbert. NBA.com

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Dan Gilbert: Welcome back Mike Brown, the only NBA coach in history(4 yrs or longer)who won the 1st round of the playoffs every full-year of his career. Twitter @cavsdan

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Dan Gilbert: Mike Brown: Only 43 years old. Man is not even near his peak as an NBA coach. Twitter @cavsdan

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Dan Gilbert: Not "selling" boys and girls.Just providing facts.You decide. Let's see how things roll next year and beyond.How many days until opening tip? Twitter @cavsdan

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Dan Gilbert: During Mike’s 6 years w/Cavs & Lakers, Brown had 2nd highest winning pct. (.657%) among all NBA coaches who were at helm 4-years or longer Twitter @cavsdan

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As one league source who knows Brown well said, "There are still some scars," and most of those centered on the relationship with owner Dan Gilbert. Brown understands that former GM Danny Ferry fought Gilbert to keep him as coach in 2010, and that ultimately played a part in Ferry walking out of the job. To keep James, Gilbert believed he had to fire Brown. Yahoo! Sports

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