JULY 7: The Cavaliers have officially signed Lopez, according to NBA.com’s transactions log.
JULY 1: The Cavaliers have agreed to a one-year deal with free agent center Robin Lopez, sources tell Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN (Twitter link). It’s a minimum-salary contract for Lopez, according to Michael Scotto of HoopsHype (Twitter link).
Lopez is coming off a one-year, $5MM deal with the Magic. The 34-year-old was effective in a limited role in Orlando, but was in and out of the rotation as the club focused on developing young bigs Wendell Carter and Mohamed Bamba.
In 36 games (17.0 MPG), Lopez averaged 7.1 PPG, 3.5 RPG, and 1.5 APG on 55.3% shooting. The former 15th overall pick is valued by NBA teams in large part due to his willingness and ability to do the dirty work on both ends of the court, including setting good screens and effectively boxing out rebounders.
Lopez will provide some depth and veteran leadership in a Cavaliers frontcourt headed by All-Star center Jarrett Allen and promising youngster Evan Mobley.
Awesome! A back up we can rely on.
Seems to fill Ed Davis’s role from last season
Yeah I agree, but I think he will probably get more playing time than Davis did. Good signing Cavs
Signing Rubio and Lopez as bench players show the caves are serious about next year. Should win 50 if healthy
Go big or go home. Tall ball.
Great. Was hoping Cavs picked up a high energy veteran big . The Mobley’s need some mentoring. Would like to see Evan get a motor going .
He needs size, strength before the motor. He’d definitely hurt his skinny self.
Excellent pickups thus far. Still holding out hope for a Durant trade.
Nets get: Sexton, Allen, okoro, osman, and three 1sts
Cavs get: kd and Joe Harris
you should consider playing in traffic if you think that’ll actually happen…
Lol mean. But yea that’s an awful trade suggestion.
If your ma ever let’s me outta bed I’ll consider it.
Pretending like nba free agency isn’t unpredictable.
Nets would have to want Allen back real bad.
They can have Levert back, but Allen is the teams identity and not going anywhere.
Great underrated pick up by the Cavs. They really needed a reliable big man to stand up that unit when Allen and Mobley get rest. Hopefully he comes in and continues his solid play and doesn’t fall off a cliff for us. Davis was so hard to watch last season in the limited minutes he actually played.