The Cavaliers had an eventful trade deadline, trading away six players and taking back four new ones in three Thursday trades. However, it sounds as if the team was somewhat close to making an even bigger splash. Appearing today on Zach Lowe’s Lowe Post podcast, ESPN’s Brian Windhorst said that there were people around the NBA who believed on Thursday morning that the Cavs and Clippers were gaining traction on a DeAndre Jordan deal.
“The reason people thought that was because there were other teams that were engaged in trade talks with pieces that would have spun off from that trade,” Windhorst explained. “So it got to the point where the Cavs and Clippers felt like they were close enough to some sort of agreement with each other that they could begin looking to bring in third teams and that’s why I know about it.”
According to Lowe, who says that the Cavaliers were never willing to send the Nets’ 2018 first-rounder to the Clippers in exchange for Jordan, talks between Clevleand and L.A. never got into “the red zone.” Still, Windhorst says that the two teams got at least “some distance down the road” before the Cavs opted to make other deals and the Clippers decided to keep Jordan.
Here’s more from Windhorst and Lowe:
- The Nets were asking for “a lot” in return for Spencer Dinwiddie, according to Lowe, who says the Cavaliers explored a trade for Dinwiddie that involved Cleveland’s own 2018 first-rounder. Such a deal would have had the added benefit of improving the value of Brooklyn’s first-rounder for the Cavs, the Nets’ asking price was too high for Cleveland.
- According to Lowe, Avery Bradley‘s asking price for his upcoming free agency is “gargantuan.” Lowe expects the Clippers guard to have to recalibrate his expectations at some point.
- Lowe doesn’t think Rodney Hood‘s deal in restricted free agency this summer will be exorbitant, speculating that the Cavaliers might be able to lock him up for something in the neighborhood of $10-12MM per year.
- Windhorst, who said last week that the Cavaliers had explored whether George Hill would be open to a buyout next year if they were to acquire him, clarified some details on that report. Since Hill was believed to be “miserable” with the Kings, per Windhorst, the Cavs looked into whether he’d be willing to reduce the guarantee on his $19MM salary for 2018/19 in order to facilitate a trade. That didn’t end up happening though.
- Windhorst and Lowe said today there has been a lot of chatter around the NBA about the Grizzlies‘ approach to the deadline. For about 36 to 48 hours, Memphis was giving the teams the impression that they were on the verge of moving Tyreke Evans, presumably in an effort to get clubs to increase their offers, according to Lowe, who says the Grizzlies may have “out-thought themselves.”
Oh NOW you tell me about the Net’s Dinwiddie valuation! Surprising, he will be 3rd string I guess on a weak team. Well Altman tried, that’s good. An earlier effort would have changed everything, but there was a Cav logjam at PG.
Cavs wasted a lot of time on Jordan. Clips had pressure to say no. An HR note said Denver was trying to trade Faried and a first… that effort at least would have legs.
I think the Grizzlies really wanted to just keep Evans somehow.
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Cavs have Hood’s bird rights so no problemo on the too much thingie.
Yeah, they’d have no problem from a cap perspective, but if LeBron comes back, they’ll be way into the tax, so I imagine they’ll still try to keep Hood’s salary down as much as they can.
I’ll assume they’ll want to keep it down, however, Gilbert has shown many times it doesn’t matter. He’s been paying the most tax in the history of the game. If Hood delivers, Gilbert will give him a just payoff whether or not James remains.
It’s great getting Hood, but if James leaves… there might be a race to the lottery. The 2019 pick is the Cavs’ only if they’re in the bottom 10! Otherwise it goes to Atlanta.