Links to the Present: June 14, 2013
2013-06-14
It’s Friday! What better way to kick off the weekend than links?
ESPN recently released their NBA Future Power Ranking and has the Cavaliers at number 8 – a nice jump from number 12 last August.
FSOhio’s Sam Amico sent out a teaser of a tweet last night, saying that the Cavs have been, “working on ‘something major.'” He added that, “[they] have talked to one team in particular a couple times about No. 1 pick, but it’s exploratory only at this stage.“ Wonder what that means…
Although he hasn’t been linked with the Cavaliers much thus far, UNLV’s Anthony Bennett will visit with the Cavaliers this Monday. As the Plain Dealer’s Mary Schmitt Boyer points out, his recent rotator cuff surgery makes it impossible for him to work out for the team. Perhaps they want to get an idea of how the shoulder is healing?
Finally, Kyrie has been named the cover athlete for NBA Live 2014. Check out this cool video of video game Kyrie on the PD’s website. Does this mean I should give up my loyalty to the NBA 2k series?
Enjoy the weekend!
@Jag – J Hill brings up a valid point though…with them having Horford on the team already…they can’t afford to pay Howard and CP3 and still field the rest of the team.
Yeah, but you’ll see that alot of them are Grey’d out because they are going to be FA’s this year. That’s how I noticed that as of right this second they have like 5 players on the roster for next year. I guess I wouldn’t mind having him, but I don’t wanna give up anyone from our core though.
@JHill
The trade machine cannot be used to calculate transaction that can be made after July 1. All of the FA’s to be are still counted against the CAP for their current teams until then. They aren’t officially FA’s until then. Right now the Cavs have only about $3.9M in CAP space and cannot do much until after July 1. Even if they make a trade for a player during the draft that trade will probably have to be an agreement in theory until after July 1.
JHill – Horford is a center. He plays the center position and plays it well. He plays it better than he does the PF position. He’s not as big as a Marc Gasol, Dwight Howard or a few others, but most of those guys aren’t nearly as athletic as he is.
http://www.82games.com/1112/11ATL13.HTM
He’s pretty consistently better as a Center every year.
As for Pecovic – he’s a good offensive guy but a sieve defensively. With us wanting to fix our interior defense, he would do nothing for us.
Iguodala is nor an average player.. He is probably the best perimeter defender in the league and has the ability to guard three positions
Personally I don’t really want horford. I mean I like him as a player but he really is a power forward essentially a less athletic but much more developed offensive TT. I would like to see them make a play for that center from Minnesota that guy would be worth the number 1 straight up especially since I’m almost positive they don’t want to pay him.
Saintwierdo3 I’m sitting in my car on break but I’m pretty sure they have to get rid of him to sign them both because I noticed while playing with the trade machine that almost all of their players are out of contract and with his large contract plus Paul and Howard I don’t think they could afford to field a whole team.
That is horrible for the Hawks… plus they don’t need to trade him to get Paul and Howard (I think). I do think they might accept TT or Dion and the first for Horford. However, I would rather just keep our players. The problem with Harford is that unlike with LMA, Love, and Cousins, he does not have any problems that would prompt the Hawks to trade him, so they’ll want full value.
what do yall not get by a BIG trade these are small moves you guys are making im thinkin al horford and 17th pick for 1st pick and zeller …..hawks do this to get howard and pual then draft Ben we get a 2 way center and another pick that we can package to move back up in the draft .. think big guys!
What don’t you people understand, Iguodala is just an average player. Just look at his stats, literally every major stat category except assists has gone down since the 07-08 season, and shot just 57.4% from the line and couldn’t even up his level of play in a contract year. I’m sorry but no way Chris Grant pays the most likely inflated asking price that he will be asking for.
S,
You are making a big undervalue of our picks or overvaluing afflalo, its been rumored 1 for 2 and Harkless, you have us giving up more and getting less. I prefer Harkless as well and possibly getting Olidipo or maybe even Len.
@ S
If the Cavs are going to trade with Orlando, I’d rather get Harkless to play the 3 and draft Mclemore. Plus Iguodala is ridiculously overpaid for what he brings to the table. Count me out.
So Iguodala is opting out….
Cavs send #1, #19 and the Grizz pick to the Magic for #2 and Afflalo, Cavs select Porter with that pick.
Cavs sign Iguodala
A Kyrie , Afflalo Iggy, TT, Andy starting line up with Waiters and Porter anchoring the bench unit sounds pretty nice.