1:13pm: The Cavaliers have officially announced all the moves outlined below.
10:45am: The Cavaliers are signing center Tacko Fall to a two-way contract, Shams Charania of The Athletic tweets. The team is also converting RJ Nembhard‘s contract to a two-way deal, JD Shaw of Hoops Rumors tweets.
Additionally, Cleveland is trimming its roster by waiving Justin James, Kyle Guy and Mitch Ballock, Chris Fedor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer tweets. They are expected to join the Cleveland Charge once they clear waivers, Fedor adds.
Fall was signed to a non-guaranteed contract in early September. The 7’6” big man appeared in three preseason games and made enough of an impression to earn the two-way deal. He spent two seasons with the Celtics, averaging 2.7 PPG, 2.6 RPG and 0.9 BPG in 26 games.
Nembhard was also signed to a non-guaranteed contract in early September. He played for Miami’s summer league team after going undrafted. Nembhard was a redshirt junior for TCU in 2020/21 and averaged 15.7 PPG, 4.3 RPG, and 4.0 APG in 24 games (34.9 MPG).
Brodric Thomas, who had been a two-way deal last season, was waived this week.
They can use Fall when they trade Allen. Mobley moves along faster than thought. Cavs have a few trades they can make this yr. Thus draft is a solid draft for guards. Allen, Sexton, Love all could be moved this year. Imo they are better off building around Mobley.
If you watched any Cavs preseason, you’d see that Mobley and Allen will be able to compliment each other, especially as Allen grows. You also don’t have to trade away all your other talent just to build around one guy.
And are you saying Fall can replace Allen? Lol what?
This is pretty much just wrong all around. They’re not trading Allen, Love has no trade value whatsoever until next season when he’ll be an expiring contract, and if they were going to trade Sexton it would have been during the offseason.
It’s too bad that, after signing Fall to one two-way, they didn’t sign Guy to the other one. Then you’d know who to blame when everything goes wrong…