While the front office is in a state of upheaval, the Cavs are continuing to work the phones to shake up the roster, as Sam Amico of AmicoHoops.net reports. With GM David Griffin out of the picture, front office holdovers Koby Altman and Mike Gansey are on the verge of making multiple trades, including a potential blockbuster, Amico continues. They are still trying to acquire Pacers All-Star forward Paul George despite George’s well-documented desire to play for the Lakers when his contract expires after next season, Amico adds.
Some other nuggets from Amico:
- The Cavs are far apart in any talks with the Bulls to acquire All-Star Jimmy Butler but there is no traction to rumors that Cleveland players have told Butler to “stay away” from the organization.
- Chauncey Billups has been offered the top executive position and members of the organization anticipate he’ll take the job, despite reservations about leaving ESPN. He’ll make a decision today or Friday.
- LeBron James has been receiving updates about the team’s plans to upgrade the roster.
- James wasn’t mad, just surprised, about owner Dan Gilbert’s inability to come to an extension agreement with Griffin.
LeBron would be an little boy in the Weste side
What language is that?
Lebron would be nothing in the West he means.
German
Why is Tyson Chandler gonna destroy him lol
No, once he signs they are going to trade chandler and Bledsoe for the great king himself
True true forgot about that
Heard something about Davis,George, and Lebron getting together on the Lakers next summer. If the Cavs want to beat the Warriors, they’ll need either George or Butler. Both provide defense and scoring and won’t score 6 points in a Game 5 of the Finals. The Cavs problems have more to do with coaching then the players, Lue is Lebron’s puppet and he made no adjustments during the series.
Let me push back there. Lue is not anyone’s puppet, or at least not any player’s puppet. Lue told LBJ to “stfu I got this” once in a huddle and challenged him to do more in last years playoffs (the year they won the Finals” and LBJ responded to being called out by asserting himself more in the 2nd half.
In defense of Kevin Love, and for that matter, all big men. I feel it’s the coach’s and the ball handlers responsibilities to put the bigs in a position to succeed. Love had a poor shooting night in Game 6 granted, but he only took 9 shots and that he only got the ball behind the 3pt line when it was kicked to him with the clock winding down. I think Love is an easy scapegoat. He’s a 3rd option of a team with 2 dominant ball-handlers. The team needs to do a better job. Adding another ball-handler might be problematic.
love is bosh, the scapegoat
Tyronn Lue got stepped over by not only Allen Iverson, but also his own superstar Lebron James. He is everybody’s puppet that’s the point.
You must mean Baron Davis, because Anthony Davis is not going to the Lakers.
I meant Anthony Davis yes. The Cavs are not far off from the Warriors though, they need to fix that bench up and they’ll beat them.
I don’t think Anthony Davis has the ability to be a Laker next season unless they trade him but there is no reason for the Pelicans to even consider that.
Don’t let a little thing like contracts get in the way of Dionis’ crazy ideas
I know about the contracts, just saying something i ran into.
Paul George deserves to be shipped to “the mistake by the lake “!!!!!
The way I read all of this is they have trades in place but Jimmy Butler is #1 on the priority list with George #2 and everything else is in a holding pattern until they know for sure where they stand on those 2. I could be wrong but that is just my take on all this info.
I agree although I’m not sure what other moves that could be
Maybe moving some combination of Shumpert, Frye, and/or Thompson?
That wouldn’t equal George.
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