The Cavaliers have waived guards Levi Randolph, Charles Matthews and Matt Mooney, Chris Fedor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer tweets.
The most significant cut is Mooney, since he was on a two-way deal. That opens up a two-way slot, with the other occupied by Lamar Stevens.
The moves leave Cleveland with 16 players on the official roster, one over the limit. Big men Marques Bolden and Dean Wade are candidates for the two-way contract, though Wade would have to go through waivers before he could sign that deal.
Randolph was signed to an Exhibit 10 deal last month. He’ll likely wind up with their G League team, the Canton Charge.
Randolph, 28, has been trying to break into the NBA since graduating from Alabama in 2015. He has been part of Cleveland’s training camp the past two seasons and signed a two-way contract in January, but was waived six days later. Randolph led the Charge in scoring last year at 16.9 PPG.
Matthews was also on an Exhibit 10 contract. He spent one season at Kentucky in 2015/16 before transferring to Michigan, where he played for two seasons. Matthews declared early for the draft in 2019, but tore his ACL during a team workout.
Mooney signed a two-way contract with the Cavs last January after going undrafted in 2019. He made four brief appearances with Cleveland last season and saw action in 42 G League games, averaging 13.1 PPG and 5.1 APG in 31.2 MPG.
GET RID OF THON MAKER!!!! HES SO BAD!!
I swear we are going to keep him and we shouldn’t! Wade and Bolden deserve the spot over him!!
Altman will have to find put about Thon. Dean should be the guy. Stick him in there to shoot 3s!
Yes Dean Wade should definitely be put in before thon!
That drops the number of Kentucky players on active rosters down to 33 on 18 teams. There are still a few up-in-the-air decisions as well with MKG in NY, Kahlil Whitney in Charlotte, Darius Miller in OKC, and Mychal Mulder in GS. I anticipate Whitney to get cut, Miller and MKG are probably 50-50, and Mulder is probably in with the Warriors.
GS will need to keep extra PG’s on their roster for all of the load management that will be required for Curry at this stage of his career.
Sorry hater, he’s a go.
thon maker still has potential to be a star!
Great joke, have you seen him play? He has all this height and length and used it to his advantage in his 4 seasons since he’s been in the league
Hasn’t used it*