The Cavaliers reached an agreement earlier today with three-time NBA champion Dwyane Wade on a one-year, $2.3MM deal. Once Wade clears waivers and the signing becomes official, the veteran guard will be reunited with longtime friend, LeBron James, and have the chance to compete for his fourth NBA title.
Before the move is completed, the Cavaliers will have to make a roster move as the team is presently at the 20-man training camp limit. Dave
Joe Vardon of Cleveland.com reports (via Twitter) that Kendrick Perkins, who the Cavaliers officially signed on Monday, will likely be cut. Perkins, 32, did not play last season and his last NBA action was a 37-game stint with the Pelicans in 2015/16. Perkins previously suited up for Cleveland during the team’s run to the NBA Finals.
Cleveland will need to trade or waive at least one player on a guaranteed contract to accommodate Wade once rosters shrink to 15 players for the start of the regular season.
I respect every players desire to win a championship. However this ongoing gaming of the system to form super teams is tiresome. All players are going to 1/2 dozen teams and the other teams have almost a zero percent chance of winning a title. It’s making the regular season all but worthless.
I truly understand what you’re saying and recognize the frustration. However, “Gaming the System” implies some kind of collusion or cheating. The CBA allows for these types of moves. Players should be allowed to join a team they want to play for and owners should be allowed to attract and retain the players they want on their team, as long as every team is playing by the rules. The harsh reality is that we as fans forget that the regular season is about entertainment; too many fans expect their team to win a championship but only one team can each year. Instead of viewing the regular season as meaningless, how about seeing it for what it truly is, an amazing assortment of talent competing on 30 different squads at the highest level of a very entertaining sport for 82 games a year. If your team can make the playoffs, that’s the cherry on top. If they make it to the finals, WOW! You’ve been rewarded with an unforgettable piece of history. Gaming the system….how just playing the game!
If your point was valid, why don’t we, as a whole, watch college basketball until March? Because the regular season doesn’t matter. It’s becoming true for the NBA as well. We judge players by the number of rings they have, and the way things currently are, it’s taking opportunities away from players by having the deck stacked against them comparative to 15 years ago. You’re fooling yourself if you think so many fans EXPECT their team to win the championship, unless you’re only talking about Golden State fans. 95% of fans are hopeful, which is what everyone should be, there’s practically no point if they aren’t. The NBA has the least amount of parity among the 4 major sports leagues, and it’s not even close. This season’s All-Star game will be on Christmas with a repeat performance on Jan 15.
Agree, eventually franchises will fold.
Durant started this. He can say whatever he wants on his fake twitter account but when the 2nd best player goes to the team with the best record of all time it creates a domino affect. Too bad even with this move the warriors would win easily
You don’t think this started with the decision?
Paul pierce, kg, and ray Allen may beg to differ on who started this. And also some guy named Lebron. But yea, KD started this trend.
Didn’t this start with the McHale-Ainge-Garnett collusion?
There is a difference between starting a team from the ground up joining forces and joining an already elite team
Which is obvious if you just watch.. Boston had to grind as did maimi with little to no benches. GS hardly had to work and lost 1 game
This is been going on forever. The Yankees have been famous for it for years they just buy whoever the best players were.
Super teams have always been around. Wilt joined the Lakers, Moses Malone joined the Sixers when he couldn’t win in the finals with the rockets by himself. Yes, they were these were trades, but why is it wrong when a player does it but okay when an owner does it?
Then of course LeBron did it recently too and Bosh was the best available big man.
Here’s the solution: become an owner that teams want to play for. Create an environment on your crap team that players would love to come to. Hire a coach players want to play for.
It’s really that simple… become a company that people want to work for. Don’t say it’s not fair, that’s crap.
Think of the NBA like Hawaii. I love to visit the island, but I’m not going to stay at Joe’s Cheap Hotel on the beach where the plumbing doesn’t work, there’s no restaurants nearby, and the help doesn’t clean up my room. I’m going to stay at the Ritz (if I can afford it LOL) where everything is fantastic and they make me feel welcome.
Simply business sense. Stop whining and become a good business.
Everyone whined when Shaq left for LA and Kobe declared he would only play there. Except Laker fans, who rubbed it in everyone’s face. And like you’ve mentioned before, Warriors were pretty terrible for decades. Just have to wait your turn and not cry about it.
Well written…
Totally agree with this bro. It’s business and sport. Owners invest properly, players, coaches, staff, and fans will reinvest. Not every business is a Fortune 500 company. The post above trying to compare the college hoops reg season to NBA is apples to oranges. The NCAA plays half the number of games, there’s 5 times the number of viable teams competing for 64 spots in the dance. Regular season definitely matters and most college hoops fans are watching their team all year, not just the March madness. He’s assuming most hoops fans only watch the dance, not true. But general public certainly pays attention because of bracketology. Also, parity is worst in NFL. Just look at last years league best/worst comparisons. Patriots Win % (.875) to the Browns (.063), 49ers (.125) and JaxJags (.188) and compare the GSW (.817) to the Nets (.244).
AAU mentality. The one thing you can’t point a finger at is the reduced salaries they’re accepting.
Xlnt AAU reference. Or those super private high schools that recruit and always have the best teams.
My view is, the “free agent” in the purest sense of the word is free to go wherever he wants. He has to live his life and play where he’s going to play and deal with that everyday. Fans who don’t like it… he doesn’t even know them…. he will never meet them, and in fact some fans won’t be happy no matter what he does. Kevin Garnett in Minnesota…stayed 12 years and actually spoke of regretting staying way too long and being loyal way too long.
I’m not a LeBron fan but I respect his decision to leave after 7 years. He was loyal to the team that drafted him. Then he became a free agent was free to do whatever the heck he wanted. My buddies know me is one of the only guys that doesn’t much like LeBron, yet one of the only guys that respected his decision to move LOL.
Aren’t we all free agents? I can leave work at any time and go work somewhere else? That’s really how I should treat my career if you think about it. If I can get more money across the street, I’m out of there….and should always have a free agent mentality. My current employer could cut my position at the flip of a hat…
Did this respect for LeBron emerge before or after Durant skipped to the Bay?
It started when Chris Webber said he didn’t want to play center for the Warriors (’93?) So they traded him and accommodated him and said if you don’t want to play here you don’t have to…. we’ll find someone else.
Even though he was under contract, he was still sort of allowed to be free to move elsewhere in a sense.
I wasn’t angry at Weber. It’s like, fine, someone else will enjoy playing here, so they traded for Rony Seikaly to play center. (Yes I know they traded for saikley before they traded Weber away, and I know they traded Weber for Tom Gugliota.)
Hey could you guys do a projected starting five story for all teams….lots of moves this off-season and would love to see a projected starter and six man possibilities.
RosterResource.com is the place to go for projected lineups/depth charts.
Good lookin….thanks!!!!!
Thomas-Rose-Calderon
Smith-Wade-Shumpert-Holland
James-Crowder-Green-Jefferson
Love-Frye
Thompson-Zizic
Korver not Holland but yeah.
I think Jeff Green would do well to be a more inside type player since his 3pt shooting is so modest.
Frankly it was disappointing early in the offseason when Griffin ignored the Irving problem (which he knew about) and the new FO signed Calderon and Green.