Veteran Cavaliers point guard Matthew Dellavedova, a longtime fan favorite who was a key role player on the 2016 title-winning team led by superstars LeBron James and Kyrie Irving, is available to return to action for Cleveland for the first time in the 2020/21 season tonight, according to Chris Fedor of Cleveland.com. The Cavaliers will host the Sixers, the No. 2 seed in the East.
Earlier today, we relayed that a Dellavedova return tonight was looking like a possibility.
Dellavedova has been sidelined since December 12 following a major concussion. The reserve, who has a long history of concussions, was kept in protocols for an extended period of time. An emergency appendectomy on February 20 further delayed his return to game action.
“Our conversation, he just talked about how appreciative he was, how we’ve dealt with this and been patient in giving him this opportunity,” head coach J.B. Bickerstaff said of Dellavedova’s return. “He loves the game of basketball, he throws his heart into it completely.”
The 6’3″ Dellavedova has spent parts of six NBA seasons in Cleveland. The 30-year-old holds career averages of 5.6 PPG, 3.7 APG and 1.8 RPG.
Fedor adds that former All-Star power forward/center Kevin Love, another member of that 2016 title team, will suit up for just his fifth game this season tonight as he recovers from a calf injury that has hampered him for most of the season. Kelsey Russo of The Athletic tweets that Love will start in the frontcourt tonight alongside Dean Wade.
I just saw Love try and close out on a guy shooting a three. It wasn’t pretty. .Dude is 32 going on 40. He still can shoot though.
Kevin is playing great…. you just pointed out one play….
Can someone crunch the numbers on how much Love is getting paid per game? Then crunch em again and let us know how much he gets paid for games actually played?
Guy should change his name to Kevin Bonilla! Happy opening day, baseball nerds.
4 yr 120 mil contract. 30 mil per yrish. 18-19 22/82 gms. $366K for 82 gms each. $1.36 mil for 22 each gm played. 19-20 56/65 gms. $461.5K for 65 gms each. $536.7K for 56 each gm played. 20-21 5/72 so far. $416.6K for 72 gm season. 5 games played, $6 mil per game. ish.
Ppl like you give me faith in this community. Thank you.
6 mil a game? Shake my damn hog
The $6mil/pg figure would be accurate for this year if Love was shut down for the year, which is a potential choice. But the Cavs do not plan to do that, so the 6million will Not be accurate as soon as he takes the floor.
A pg figure is difficult.
Anyway it’s large. I hope Gilbert considers this when deciding whether to retain Altman. Altman is not winning big pictures, including his first silly call: that contract.
It is viable to shut down and buy out KLove. However they are still only 3 games out of the play-ins in a key year after missing the bubble. And I doubt Love draws anything in his expiring (next) year, so, might as well use him.
I hope he makes it to a contending team at center before retiring.
if he plays all the rest of the remaining games, the total will be 29. 1 million a dang gong game is ludicrous. good NFL qbs be making 2-3 mil per game. life! is there a way to calculate how much a single game generates in revenue?
This is just one data point link to nba.nbcsports.com (jersey sales), but I think it’s valid considering the lack of attendance-based revenue.
Needless to say, Kevin Love is not in the top 15, and I don’t see the Cleveland Cavaliers mentioned in the article at all.