John Beilein Apologizes to Cavaliers Players for Using Racially-Charged Language in Film Session

The Cleveland Cavaliers have quickly developed one of the most toxic locker rooms in the NBA, and head coach John Beilein, who is in out his skis, just poured gasoline on a raging tire fire.

Beilein reporteldy said during a film session that the Cavs were no longer playing like a "bunch of thugs," a racialized choice of words to say the very least. He later reached out to players individually to insist that meant to say "slugs" and simply misspoke.

"I didn't realize that I had said the word 'thugs,' but my staff told me later I did and so I must have said it," Beilein said via ESPN.

Beilein's apology might have been authentically sincere, but that won't do much to alleviate what has quickly become a nightmare for the former Michigan coach. The 66-year-old has overseen a Cavs team that currently sports a pathetic 10-27 record, with many players on the team frustrated over what they believe is a sophomoric and truncated approach to coaching in the NBA.

With Kevin Love, their veteran leader, close to going off the deep end as the locker room descends into anarchy, it's becoming harder to imagine Beilein sticking around for longer than one season.

Dropping a word like "thugs" into a film session with a young team, especially given the connotations that word carries with regards to the treatment of African-American communities by a majority-white power structure, is nothing short of a potentially fireable offense. We're not even halfway through the season, so imagining what the future holds for the incompetent Beilein and his Cavaliers is agonizing to fathom.