The NBA regular season continued, with the Cavaliers taking over the Pacers 108-104 and the Cavaliers playing inside for 29 minutes with 20 points and eight rebounds, continuing the best form of the recent period.
This is the fifth consecutive game in which Luck has scored 20+ points, and in the last game against the Hawks, he had 35 points and 11 rebounds.
With the best performance in recent times, Love has also regained the feeling of its peak. In the last 10 games, he has averaged 20.7 points, 8.1 rebounds and 2.3 assists per game, shooting 51.7% from the field, shooting 50% from three-point range, and averaging 4.1 three-pointers per game.
The down-and-out magnate, who was considered to have no chance at the Cavaliers before the start of the season, has now become a very important part of the Cavaliers. Last summer, the Cavaliers reportedly wanted to buy out the contract with Love, but Love was reluctant to sacrifice his salary, and in the end, the two sides did not negotiate further on the buyout.
But now, the Cavaliers are clearly reluctant to buy out Love, at most, they just hope to exchange Love for players of the same value or more draft picks and young players to lay a better foundation for reconstruction, rather than taking a step back from Love and letting Love get a lot of salary while letting him go in vain.
As for Love, he probably doesn't plan to leave the Cavaliers now. Because the Cavaliers are currently no. 5 in the East, there is a good chance of making the playoffs this season. Moreover, Luck is still a very important player in the Cavaliers. In the past, when working with James and Irving, they have won championships, and Love's willingness to join the championship team is not necessarily high. Because Luck knows that even if he joins the championship team, his chances in the new club are limited, at most he is just an ordinary role player, and he may need to do dirty work such as defense, which is actually not what Luck is good at, and the offense is relatively his advantage.
The most crucial thing is that Lefour, which has a combined salary of $60 million this season and next season, is not willing to sacrifice a large salary to join the championship team with a basic salary.
So, it also means that whether it's the Lakers or the Nets who were interested in him before, it's hard to get him again. After all, both teams are likely to be able to offer only base salary contracts. Moreover, the Lakers led by James, Davis and Westbrook are still very difficult to compete for the championship. As for the Nets of Durant, Irving and Harden, it seems that they are facing a lot of uncertainties in their championship competition.