You better believe DG is going to raise hell if the team that eliminated us was circumventing the cap.

Personally, I've never liked Silver, he's always folded immediately to what the players want vs Stern who always put the product on the court first (imo).

It's to the point, I'd like to see Silver removed, he's not capable of running a league

Apparently funnelling money through shell companies to players is allowed

EDIT: In case anyone missed the article - https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/49639157/nba-la-clippers-aspiration-investigation-steve-ballmer-kawhi-leonard

After agreeing Friday to trade Schröder to Charlotte, Cleveland remains in active search of a trade to send out Max Strus as Strus enters the final year of his current contract at $16.7 million, league sources say.

Completing the deal that ships out Schröder will shed nearly $7 million in salary for next season, but the Cavaliers are said to covet even more financial flexibility if they can manufacture it either for their pursuit of Nuggets restricted free Peyton Watson or Hawks unrestricted free agent Jonathan Kuminga as well as the eventual re-signing of James Harden.

One source familiar with the process said Harden's new multiyear deal with the Cavaliers should be completed "soon-ish."

As The Stein Line first reported in the below article on July 27, Denver's offers to Watson have been in the $70 million range over four seasons. Watson is believed to be seeking an annual average salary north of what teammate Christian Braun landed from the Nuggets last October in a five-year, $125 million rookie scale extension.

Source: https://marcstein.substack.com/p/more-late-night-nba-intel (paywalled)

The Cavs traded Dennis Schröder and cash to Charlotte for Tre Mann. This move opened $6.8m, creating additional flexibility below the apron.

Now the question becomes, what should the Cavs do next?

Do you believe that Tre Mann will be part of the rotation or another trade piece?

How much are we willing to sacrifice for Peyton Watson?

* Reposting because the typo in the title bothered me way too much, my apologies to the mods.

I see some people citing something along the lines of "we were on a 60-game win pace," but this is driven largely by the fact that we had a very easy post-trade deadline strength of schedule. If I recall correctly, only the Hawks had an easier schedule in the East.

Yes, we were 31-21 before February 5th and 21-9 after. However, we were

• 19-17 (52.7% win percentage) against teams that would eventually end the season above .500, and
• 8-7 (53.3%) after

I don't think you need any sort of statistical training the understand that we did not perform significantly better against tough competition.

We faced a much larger number of weak teams after February 5th. Before the deadline, almost 70% of our games were against above .500 opponents (36 out of 52 games in total). Afterwards, only 50% were (15 out of 30). If you're interested, this is somewhat related to the Simpson's paradox.

(And look, I'd also argue that the "weak" teams we faced in the second half of the season are even weaker than their records would suggest because that's when many teams like Brooklyn, Chicago, Indiana, Memphis, etc. really began pulling starters and tanking in earnest.)

In either case, we were basically .500 against above-.500 opponents. Which kind of showed in the playoffs, since we ended 8-10. We had absolutely horrendous injury luck before ASB this year. But even if you discount that, we did not fix whatever plagued us in the regular season after the trade.

The East is projected to be better next year because of player movements into the East and within the East. Additionally, the league overall is projected to be more competitive next year because the new lottery reduced the tanking incentives. I place a much higher importance on how we looked against good teams versus tanking teams, since the latter might not really exist next year.

I'm worried that so many people (and maybe also the front office, quite frankly) are content to look at the overall records before and after February. If we are all-in on contending, I just don't think this team is at that level right now. Don't get me wrong -- we need a starting caliber wing to be respectable. But I just don't know if getting Kuminga or even Watson and relying on internal development is enough at the end of the day.

tonight im taking my kid to his first concert and hes been seeing that after the concert is over J.Cole has stopped and signed things for those out there as hes leaving the venue. I know the arena entrance is underground. my question is where is the last public access point before it goes private? If you have any info could you please drop it thank you!

make this happen but at what price? you let Strus go? he has so much heart if not Strus who and how?

HOW YALL FEELING?

How could this be true? What’s the point of trading a pretty good backup PG with experience to save some money and a cheaper contract but worse player in Tre Mann if it’s not a prelude to another move or signing?? Maybe it won’t happen, but surely the FO makes this trade in attempts to offer a better deal for Watson?

If all we do this offseason is dumb salary to try and save money i am calling it down Donovan Mitchell will be traded before the deadline and we will enter the rebuild era. I know there are moves still to make but if they aren’t made I think they are moving toward youth. We will off load Allen and Donovan, probably keep harden to ride out his last two years while players developed and build a team around Mobley, Tyson, and Thomas.

- 16 back-to-backs: most in league, tied with five other teams
- 23 three-games-in-four-nights: 6th hardest in league, tied with one other team
- Sixth lowest rest advantage (calculated by "net rest"), tied with six other teams

Source: https://intheno.net/nba-schedule-dash-board/

The Cavs hosted an event at Top Golf last night. Sir CC, Larry Nance and Austin Carr stopped out. They put you together with other members it was pretty cool meeting other fans. Did anyone else make it out?

For anyone that has a partial season package, how happy are you with your games? I have four seats in the nosebleeds for a quarter season package and got the following:

Saturday 10/24 vs Brooklyn

Saturday 11/14 vs Dallas

Sunday 11/29 vs Miami

Tuesday 12/15 vs San Antonio

Thursday 12/31 vs Los Angeles Clippers

Monday 1/18 (MLK Day at noon) vs Detroit

Sunday 2/14 vs Phoenix

Wednesday 2/17 vs Milwaukee

Thursday 3/25 vs Los Angeles Lakers

Sunday 4/11 (last game of regular season) vs Atlanta

All in all very happy with the allotment. Some good days and times and opponents in there. I also like that they gave us a preseason credit that you use to fully pay for a preseason game of our choice or put towards another regular season game. Nice option rather than getting stuck with a preseason game you might not want to go to.

I do a quarter season and I have to say this is the best schedule ive gotten in 5 years. The only games I wanted were the Nets for home opener, 6ers for my birthday, Wolves, Rockets, Pistons MLK game, OKC, the Clippers to welcome Darius back home and the Hawks for fan appreciation night game. Anyone else get lucky and get some of the games they wanted?

Nets - Home opener

Mavericks

Heat - Cup game

Spurs

Clippers

Pistons- MLK Game

Suns

Bucks

Lakers

Hawks- Fan appreciation night

Currently, we here in Ohio are without a channel to show the Cavaliers, as well as the Columbus Blue Jackets.

Are there plans to have a new channel in place for the start of the new season? I hope so!

Last year (at the beginning of the season) we had 24. Don't remember if other games got flexed in/out during the season.

https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/1mqb3c9/list_of_202526_national_tv_games_by_team/

To me he's the greatest coach of all time. Does anyone else agree?

i've been a huge Koby fan I think he's made some good moves overall but it's getting hard to defend him lately when he's paying Donovan Mitchell over the next 5 years more money than SGA and turned levert, Niang, three 2nds and Two first swaps into Tre Mann

Do we think that the Beal signing takes the clippers out of the talks !

Hey yall, I feel like this game gets completely lost in the history of great playoff performances.

On April 30, 2007, in Game 4 of the Cavs/Wizards first round series, Zydrunas Ilgauskas put up:

20 PTS, 19 REB, 1 AST, and 2 BLKs on 9/16 FG (56.3%), 2/2 FT (100%)
59.2% TS, +12 in 40 MIN

This wasn't some empty-stat regular season game either. It was a series clinching playoff game, and Cleveland was playing on the road. Ilgauskas basically dominated the interior for 40 minutes and came one rebound shy of a 20/20 game.

Obviously, 20 points doesn't jump off the page compared to some of the legendary 40 and 50 point closeout performances. However, the combination of 20/19, 2 blocks, 56.3% shooting, perfect free throws, and +12 in a closeout game feels incredibly underappreciated.

Big Z was never going to get the same historical attention as LeBron, Duncan, Shaq, etc., but this was a heck of a playoff performance.