Cavs complete a sign-and-trade deal with the Miami Heat
2010-07-10
So the good news is that the Cavs are getting something back for LeBron James after all. According to Windhorst, the Cavs will be getting two first-round picks from the Heat sometime between 2013 and 2017, a 2012 second-round pick from New Orleans, a future second-round pick, and a $16 million trade exception.
The details of this are complicated, but basically this allows Miami to pay LeBron less earlier in his contract, gives the Cavaliers something something for giving up LeBron, and helps Miami improve in the short term while giving the Cavs a better chance to rebuild.
It looks like the plan is to try and use the picks as assets in a trade and try for another winning season rather than try a full rebuild. Not sure how I feel about that as a five-year plan, but it looks like the management wants to give the fans something to root for next season. Can’t say I disagree with that logic.
I would have something to say about the press conference fiasco, but I was at summer league watching basketball. I really don’t feel like I missed something important. Until tomorrow, everyone.
all of this talk that we should blow the team up doesnt make any sense if we dont have draft picks this year that are our own. It would be better to wait and blow it up when a lot of contracts expire anyway imo. No one on the roster can really get lottery picks, maybe later first or second rounders. I guess we will just have to wait and see what happens
I’m glad the Cavs have decided to no longer talk about players who are not on their roster – good for them. Now they need to get busy looking for talented young players in order to find the next Durant or similar. There’s plenty of talent out there, we just need to find it and mold it under coach Scott’s knowledge of the game.
If done properlly we could be a .500 team. Not what we would like but it’s what it is. I’m just glad Mike Brown is gone – he didn’t have the talent Byron has.
hahahaha Congressman James. I love that one. My personal favorite is LeBlown Games. Never more true than Game 5. He really is freaking clueless. Or programmed.
From Congressman James’ ESPN interview last night:
“I didn’t talk to anyone personally, because … I got to a point the last day, I heard so much about the whole process and the last day I wanted just to be about me,” James said. “I didn’t want to talk to anybody, so when I went to the interview (with Jim Gray) I was comfortable with myself and I wasn’t hearing other people’s voices going on in my decision, so, I didn’t talk to anybody.”
Emphasis mine. The guy is freaking clueless.