Love, James and Irving
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="1" > outsiders into nail households</h1>
James is the Knight Generation and Irving is the Knight Generation II. James returned to his hometown of Cleveland after the Heat played his brother's basketball, and the Cavaliers traded Wiggins for Kevin Love of the Minnesota Timberwolves. Compared to James and Owen's "cavalier resume", Love can only be regarded as an outsider in Cleveland. However, Irving, who did not think that the Cavaliers had cultivated, abandoned the team first, and then LeBron James also went to Los Angeles to play "family basketball". In the end, Lefour, an outsider, did not seek a deal or choose to abandon it, but stayed in Cleveland and became a nail household.
Jarrett Allen
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="4" > knight's interior line "overcrowded"</h1>
When Owen and James left the Cavaliers one after another, Love was the Cavaliers' deck. But with the strength of Lefour alone, it was difficult to lead the Knights to break through from the east. So, seeing that the team has not improved in recent years, the Cavaliers have tried to trade Love, but they have not received a satisfactory offer. The reason why the Cavaliers did not receive a satisfactory offer was that on the one hand, Lefour had a negative game due to dissatisfaction with the team, which gave other teams who wanted to get Lefour the idea of undercutting prices; on the other hand, Lefu's contract was not small, but his injury also deterred many teams. Therefore, the championship team did not dare to risk tearing up the existing chemistry of the team to trade the injured Lefour; the rebuilding team had no intention of taking over the big contract of Lefour.
Kevin Lofford
As he grew older, Love's position as a knight became more and more awkward. Last season in a trade involving Harden, the Cavaliers got the Nets' potential inside Jarrett Allen. Allen is in the Cavaliers' long-term plans for the future, so they buy out Drummond to make room for Allen to grow. The Cavaliers' even more puzzling operation is to get inside player Mobley in the draft and then renew Aaron's contract for 5 years and 100 million US dollars. The reason why such a deal is puzzling is that Mobley and Allen overlap in position and function similarly, and the only explanation is that the Cavaliers want to take advantage of the rookie bonus period of Mobley's contract to maintain a "double high" combination of internal lines. However, if Mobley performs better than Allen, Allen's 5-year, 100 million contract is also difficult to handle. So no matter how Mobley and Allen's contract together, how to look awkward, how to see how to lose.
Markkanen
In the small-ball era, players with both projection and athleticism were popular in the league. Of course, the small-ball era is more important to the athleticism of interior players. Therefore, Adebayo and Green, who have no projection ability, can survive in the league. After the Cavaliers had two big interior players who couldn't shoot, they traded Nance Jr., who had a similar function, to trade off the team in exchange for Markkanen, who had excellent shooting ability. Nance Jr. is not completely devoid of projection capabilities, but it is definitely more than one notch worse than the projecting starter Markkanen. Leaving aside the reality of Markkanen's consecutive declines over the past three seasons, the Cavaliers have at least made up for the type of players needed on the inside.
At present, the Cavaliers' interior line already has three players, Aaron, Markkanen and Mobli, and in terms of age, the three of them will occupy the Cavaliers' No. 4 and No. 5 positions for most of the time. Therefore, the current configuration of the Cavaliers has been able to meet the needs of the interior, and Lefour, who holds a large contract, is somewhat burdensome for the team.
Simmons and Love
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="11" > where is the future of Loaf? </h1>
Why didn't the Cavaliers buy out Love like Drummond did?
First, The amount and duration of Lefour's contract are larger than Drummond's, and the cost of the Cavaliers to buy out Lefour is high.
Second, Drummond's market value is much smaller than That of Lefour. When the Pistons sold Drummond, the team expected a first-round pick. However, after half a day, no team was willing to send the first round pick to get the "two-double machine" of Zhuang Shen. Therefore, the Cavaliers' buyout of Drummond not only guarantees Allen's growth, but also saves some salary.
Drummond
The situation for Lefour is completely different. With $60 million left in 2 years on his contract, the Cavaliers have just given Allen a $5-year, $100 million contract, and they don't want to continue to take on Love's salary. If the team is willing to take on The Love contract, it could have waited another two years. Therefore, the Cavaliers' goal is clear - the best plan is to trade Lefour, followed by waiting for the expiration of the Lefour contract, and the second is to buy out Lefour. The Cavaliers aren't in a hurry, and Love's contract is still 2 years away, but it will expire next summer, which will help some teams that want to free up salary space to achieve their goals, so the value of the Love deal next summer may double again.
Finally, I would like to talk about the future of Loafer. There have been many recent rumors about The Luck deal, and even Simmons has become one of the targets. But I don't think the Cavaliers are likely to send away potential players like Sexton in a LeFou deal, and Lefou would rather be trapped in Cleveland to get a $60 million salary, in other words, Love is already lying flat, and maybe the end result is to end his career with the Cavaliers.