What SHAKE UP Do the Cleveland Cavaliers NEED This Summer? | Time to Take a Big RISK!?

What SHAKE UP Do the Cleveland Cavaliers NEED This Summer? | Time to Take a Big RISK!?

on today’s show it’s time to talk about some fake trades maybe they’ll involve darius garland maybe they won’t we’ll see that’s all straight ahead on today’s edition of locked on cavs you are locked on cavs your daily cleveland cavaliers podcast part of the locked on network your team every day what’s up everybody my name is danny cunningham you might know me from my time covering the cleveland cavaliers places like my substack the inside shot cleveland magazine 923 the fan and a number of other stops along the way joined today by matt fontana from big play espn radio 971 the fan in columbus a lot of places and of course my former co-host radio show i used to do once upon the time before we get into it just want to say thank you for making today’s edition of locked on cavs your first listen and making the show your first listen every single day you can find us anywhere you get your podcast apple spotify anywhere else make sure you drop the show a fivestar rating leave us a nice review and be a friend tell a friend about the show if you’re watching on youtube hit that thumbs up button for us click subscribe hit that notification bell so you don’t miss the latest lockdown on cavs content proud part of the lock on podcast network your team every day today’s episode brought to you by game time download the game time app create an account and use code lockdown nba for $20 off your first purchase i gave you some homework um like an hour before we’re recording but i know because i know you very well you are a bit of uh you will procrastinate you’re a procrastinator i think um it would be fair to call you i think that would be fair yeah for sure so i’m confident that if i would have given you this homework assignment two days ago when we decided we we were going to record a podcast on wednesday night you would have just done it an hour before the podcast started anyway so i figured i’ll just save matt the time and the worry of having to put something on his list but that homework assignment that i gave you was to come up with a trade target uh for the cavs to be interested in somebody that they now fair enough that that is a hard assignment that’s a hard assignment that’s not 450 players in the nba pick one nikley jokic congratulations welcome to cleveland done and done next that’s all that’s all you had for me that’s all that’s all we’re doing here on last i mean that’s the thing it’s going to be hard like for kobe alman i don’t even know if kobe alman has an answer and it’s literally his job that he gets paid millions of dollars to figure out i don’t even know if he has an answer for it so let me let me i guess start with this before we dive into that but how important if at all because you and i have not had this conversation certainly not in a a public forum like this one but how important do you look at this and say “yeah the cavs need to shake things up after what happened this postseason?” i think they do and the thing is i’m here’s where i straddle the fence and you shouldn’t do that but i’m not giving away darius garland i’m not just going to give away jared allen i think the reports out are correct evan mobley and donovan mitchell are untouchable this this current era of the run that you’re going to go on is led by donovan mitchell evan mobley should be the guy to take you on the next era of the run to try to go win a championship don’t even i mean again outside of something absolutely insane i don’t think either one of those guys should be brought up in trade conversations that leads you to garland that leads you to jiren allen i’m sure we’ll talk about darius garland’s toe and how that’s going to impact everything and how he’s viewed this summer but i mean danny it’s not good enough for me i i’ve seen this core four i i’ve seen this group and it’s a lot of common excuse making of injuries and i’m one that you know we even talked about it like i wasn’t pushing for these guys to play i believe that if they cannot play and if they’re injured they can’t go and i was not ever going to i don’t cross that line with anybody i just call me naive i trust professional athletes that if they can play that they would um and obviously now knowing what we know about darius garland he really couldn’t play and he still somehow tried to get out there um but that all aside this hasn’t worked for one reason or another injuries suck but i just it’s not good enough you could win 64 games getting out in the second round by gentleman swept whether or not whatever the pacers do in the finals doesn’t matter to me and i there’s just got to be some sort of change and if they want to sit there and just say well we’ll just play better or we’ll just get better injury luck next year that’s not good enough but the hard thing is i’m going to ask kobe alman to thread a needle where i’m sitting here saying i want to trade i want some sort of change but i also am not just going to trade darius scarland for drew holidayiday i’m just not gonna give him up in a three-team trade to get some 3 and d wing guy because that’s what technically you need on this team you have allstar level talent going out i need all-star level talent in return and it could be different players or different types of players that might work better or be better for this team um but we’ve tried the two guard too big thing at times it works there’s times jared allen looks all nba there’s times he can’t even be on the floor uh garland there’s times that he looks like go off for 45 points on a given night when you need him there’s other times he’s going one of seven from beyond the arc and i just can’t have those inconsistencies i’m not saying that evan mobley is not inconsistent uh donovan mitchell is not inconsistent like he is donovan mitchell that’s why he’s elite um but you’re keeping evan mobley the two guys that i think are the most inconsistent star level guys those are the ones that i just don’t know how they fit anymore but again if they wanted to sit back if it just came that kobe alman tried he picked up every phone call that came his way he made some phone calls he worked it three team trades future picks while trying to get under the apron all those kind of things and he tried his hardest to make something work and it didn’t fine you know i’ll accept it i don’t like it but i’ll accept it i’m not one of these people that say make a trade for trade’s sake but i really need him to try hard uh to do something here for this team so i’m glad you said all that because i don’t agree with all of that and i needed somebody to come on here and not agree with me on everything because a lot of doing this podcast um i have the takes and that is kind of what you get because i’m the one with the podcast but i’m i’m glad you said that specifically about garland because i am and i think that the camp i’m in is kind of dwindling where i am in the don’t trade darius garland camp i think it would be a bad idea for them for a number of different reasons one is kind of the one that you alluded to that just like that kind of trade is really difficult it’s hard to especially with where the cavs are at financially operating as a second apron team it’s going to be really difficult i think to get equal value back for darius garland when you can’t take back more money and he just had foot surgery and is going to be out four to five months like i just think that when you add all of those things together it’s going to be really difficult to get back what darius garland is worth and i also think that he is 25 years old he’s a two-time all-star and i don’t think he’s done getting better as a basketball player like i think the best days that darius garland has had are not going to be the best days of his career i just don’t think that he has reached that peak yet um and the one other aspect of this i think a lot of what he provides when he’s healthy is exactly what the cavs need because not only if you trade darius garland do you then have to worry about the overall talent level of the roster you need somebody that can replace what he does and i don’t know that that is very easy for them to find maybe you want to say it’s ty derome but we just saw how that went with ty drrome in that role in the playoffs and it did not go very well at all jared allen is what i keep coming back to because i think because darius is a star he’s an all-star he’s that type of guy like it just attracts a lot of attention he obviously has more value on the trade market than jared allen but we keep going back to trading darius trading darius trading darius i think trading jared would be a big enough shakeup to like yes this changes what the roster looks like this changes who the cavs are a little bit but you’re also even if you do take back a little bit less talent for jarrett than he’s worth i think that that margin just works in your favor so much that’s like okay maybe the cavs on paper aren’t as talented as they were because they traded jared allen for a little bit less than what jared allen actually is but i think that that is an area where the fit can make up for the talent if you pull off the right trade i would agree with you on that like if i could pick one of the two i would rather trade jared allen because darius garland is a scorer i i’ll take that and i know people say defense this and defense that in today’s nba he’s a three-point shooting ball handling guard that’s great if he was only like three inches taller you know i get it like that’d be fine and there are those concerns about playing him and donovan at the same time uh but the concern is also there about with neither one of those guys is on the floor so like yes if i had to pick 100% it’s jared allen um do i think you’re going to get the most return like you were talking about no do i think that it’s probably let me ask you this do you think it is more likely that just one of them is traded or both of them is traded or neither of them is traded we used to do that on our show we used to either neither or both do you think right there’s more likely that one of them is traded both of them is are traded or neither one of them is traded so this is a take i’ve sort of been soft launching i guess and i talked about this a lot on 923 on wednesday when i filled in on afternoon drive um like the soft launching a take type thing because i do this thing matt where i will like talk about it with friends and what i think and a way to kind of shape a take and i’m curious if you do too before i actually like bring it to the podcast or throw it out there on the radio when i’m on um but the take that i think is the proper one it depends who you trade if you trade darius garland i think you kind of have to trade jared allen too i do sure because we talk about that fit and i think that darius is such a big shakeup of this team that if you make that trade why would you want to run back the double big if you trade jared allen i think it’s much easier to justify saying jared allen is going leaving one changes what this team looks like two gives evan mobley more authority more ownership in what this team looks like on both ends of the floor because he will not be playing alongside another all-star caliber big so i think that you can get away trading just him that said i think that the most likely is probably one and i think it’s jared allen i don’t think the cavs actually want to trade darius garland i think if teams call kobe alman will pick up the phone about darius garland and i think that kobe alman will listen to what other decision makers in the nba have to say about what they would offer for darius garland but ultimately i just don’t think that there are offers out there that are legitimately going to be made that make enough sense for the cavs to say “yeah we will give you our 25-year-old twotime all-star franchise starting point guard.” i just think that’s not a spot where the cavs are at right now a year from now could they be sure but i think that it’s so easy to just to say “oh the cavs should trade darius they should trade darius.” and you know you you said it you can’t give them away and the cavs cannot be in a position where they trade darius and do not get better and those trades i think are really difficult to find yeah and i’ll listen to that too the only thing i would add about darius who’s all those things you mentioned 25 all-star and under contract and potentially extension eligible again this off season if what is it july 2nd or whatever i think he could hit that again if they really wanted to i don’t think they will but you know the other thing to to bring into all this is donovan mitchell right the cavs are going to go allin with him as they should he’s an elite an elite basketball player and he is the one that is going to lead this era of cavs basketball team how much longer he’s going to lead i don’t know we’ll find that out probably two years maybe longer i don’t know you hand it off to evan mobley we’ll see and i think that is obviously we’re not donovan but for him to understand and ask him like well what do you think works or like what do you think and i’m not saying that he’s lebron or he should be involved or as involved that lebron is but donovan deserves that right like i i’d pick his brain and co you know kenny atinson and kobe alman probably already have that idea of what he thinks works best and i’ve seen him on that floor with darius garland and i do think they have chemistry and i do think they can play well uh off of one another and on the floor together you know allen the same thing i just kind of come back to and maybe i think it’s just because i’ve been inundated with it all these three team trades that they’re both involved and one goes here and one goes here and then here comes another high and you know you mentioned the apron and all these rules about what can go out and what can come back and uh if they have to do like four different microtransactions to actually get completed what they’re trying to do um you know they don’t have the salary to shed to get under that they can get tai jerome back that’s one you know obviously an area that i hope they get done with that but yeah i mean the cavs are just they’re limited on everything outside of the team that they have you know i think i think you know i know you’ve discussed it like once you enter that apron that’s meant to be like you better have your team ready to go because you can’t mess with it and here are the cavs entering what the first year of them after they got under the apron with the deandre thing they’re going to be in a next year here you are and we’re already starting to tinker that’s like literally the one thing the nba doesn’t want you doing is entering the entering the apron and instantly trying to change things that’s why they created what they created they don’t want you doing that uh and to your point it’s not just those hindrances it’s yeah what other available trades are there um i think there’s been a lot of reports of people saying this off seasonason is going to be crazy good that’s good maybe the cavs can slide in somewhere maybe they can find that three-team trade that they can slide into and move a salary or do this to try to help out you know their team i’m with you i’m not giving these guys away and if they brought this team back i wouldn’t stand outside of the arena you know chained to a a lamp post saying that they should have traded somebody it is what it is they tried but uh i would hope they can find something and yeah if it were one or the other uh i think it would be jared allen i just i just i don’t know why man i just keep seeing these these oh yeah send allen here then you send darius here and then you get this piece back like i just there’s i don’t know it’s wearing me down i got to fully admit that that the online trade machines everything that that everybody likes to post it’s starting to wear me down that both of them will go out in the same trade today’s show brought to you by game time there’s nothing like the nba playoffs unfortunately they’re not happening in cleveland anymore was thinking that maybe last night would have been a basketball game in cleveland in the playoffs but that’s not the case that said there’s still a ton going on around northeast ohio and if you want to get your foot in the door if you want to get your butt in the door game time is the place to go when you’re shopping for tickets they’ve got everything you need from killer last minute deals panoramic seat views and no surprise fees something that i think is a real gamecher when it comes to game time you’ll find great seats for as low as $100 on nfl games that are going to be happening before we know it the season is almost here maybe you want to watch the local team i don’t think it’s going to be very good maybe you want to see some of the teams that come to town who might be much better i don’t 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actual thing that exists this isn’t a situation like the nfl where the salary cap is a myth type of thing that you hear all the time but when you take a look at this it’s okay well how do you find a fit that makes the cavs better and also gets them under the second apron or if you combine two players in a trade and it gets them under the second apron then they become hardcapped is there a trade that is worth hard capping yourselves like it’s all of these things that become really really difficult to navigate and i’m not saying that it can’t be navigated because it can i think kobe alman’s a very smart executive i think he has made some very shrewd moves throughout his career um acquiring jared allen certainly among them when he did but the other thing that i have been thinking about with this is trading which player trade would you trade that is less of a risk i personally think trading jared allen is far less of a risk than trading darius garland would be not necessarily because of what said player could become in another situation i think that matters but i don’t think that’s necessarily part of it i think because darius is harder to replace and the other thing that i’ve not heard anybody mention um and i don’t even want to be the guy to mention this because as of right now we have zero reason to believe this is an issue and i want to make this very clear there is no indication that this is something that could be coming down the road i don’t want to be the guy to bring it up but i i am looking at the cavs salary cap table for the next several years and there is no reason there is no indication that this should be a thing um all indications have been extremely positive but i look at how much money everybody’s making and i get to the 2027 2028 season and i’m on spot track here and some of these things are colorcoded where like you know purple is an estimate of what they could be making like everly donovan mitchell because their extensions are going to kick in and oh a couple years from now it’s green for donovan mitchell why is it green because he has a player option so what this all of that means to me is while it hasn’t been discussed and it shouldn’t be discussed right now but there is pressure with donovan mitchell i think next year to go further in the playoffs because if that doesn’t happen then you become you are in the same point we were in last summer where yes donovan mitchell did sign a contract extension but that could potentially be a pivot point for him i have no reason to believe that donovan mitchell is anything other than thrilled with what he has been in cleveland ohio every every interaction that this has come up he has been just super happy as a member of the cavs happy in cleveland i right now have zero reason to believe that donovan mitchell will finish his career anywhere other than cleveland no reason to believe that however that could be a pivot point and if you take a big risk by trading darius garland this off season and it does not pan out you could be looking at more of a significant reset the off seasonason after that if that risk doesn’t happen yeah and the thing is it’s also donovan even if he wants to stay are you seeing the development from evan moley that you need to then take over you know that kind of role it’s like donovan could stay here but like i again i don’t want to think about and talk about it but it’s in real is he going to be the same guy in three years is he going to be the same and i do think he really is entering an elite part of his career the the prime like i mean just watch we all watch what he did this season i mean that’s i didn’t i didn’t closely watch him in utah but i would imagine it was probably the best season he ever had as a player with the team i know the the the playoffs didn’t end the way that you wanted to go but i mean he had everything going for him in the regular season so yeah to that point of the future and and looking through the lens of the only thing that matters is winning a trophy right the only thing that matters is winning a championship because i got into an argument with somebody and this was a while ago when it was like still like “oh could they trade evan mobley?” and they said ‘why would you trade him away when he’s supposed to be the future it was the giannis stuff everybody got on me because i sent out a thing that compared the first four years of giannis’s career to the first four years of evan mobley and they were comparable and everybody goes “you don’t know basketball because by his fourth year giannis was an mvp cannon and you don’t see that with evan mobley and giannis got a slow start.” and the only reason i really wanted to do it was to say that evan mobley is still an extremely young man and he’s played four years in b in the nba he has gotten better every single year we saw shots this year that he was never going to take prior hit at a decent clip for him why would you want to then ship that off well it’s the known commodity and i said ‘okay so then you’re in the mindset of only thing that ever matters is winning a championship and i get that that is the i guess right thing to do i’m looking at it and saying “yeah i want to win a championship but i think you have a better shot of putting yourself in the game for 8 to 10 years versus a two-year run.” and i guess the thing that could shift everything is the cba where if they don’t want these super teams and they don’t want these long-term things then you do maybe have to shift the mindset of a mercenary type of team where you get it built up and you have a couple run before the taxes hit and you got to tear everything back down and just look what the boston celtics are dealing with right now they had their run it probably came short on a premature with the injury with jason tatum i don’t know if you would have mattered anyway if they would have beat you know the the the the knicks who knows but like here they are and all of a sudden tatum’s out rebuild year in ship out all those guys like do you want to be that if you’re the cavs well they won a championship so what does it matter sure like there’s no guarantee they’re ever going to get back to it again and i guess i just i guess maybe here comes the lebron thing like i’m just used to having a window that’s more than just a couple of years and i’m not saying that evan moy will get you there and that’s the other problem too there’s no guarantee that he’ll get you even close to it so that’s the that’s the whole thing it all goes come back to donovan mitchell you have your window now with an elite guy and if you want to go win a championship then you need to do everything you can over the next two years not just on his contract but literally just because that might be the final two years of his elite prime do everything you can to put something around him right now you know and i i wonder if that is if that is taking a risk as big as trading away a two-time all-star in the back court like i i i not to say that maybe it does work out maybe it’s great but i don’t know if there the trade for me i think would have to be a sure thing the way that i look at this is i would have to look at the trade when uh shams tweets it out and just be like cavs won that trade like they got that right um and i don’t know how many of those are are out there truthfully so now that we are i don’t know 25 minutes into this podcast um maybe it’s time to get into the first homework assignment i gave you which as i look back through my text is i want i wanted you to come up with a trade target for the cavs to go after like if you whether it is darius garland or jared allen like i wanted you to come up with somebody realistically not nicola joic because i don’t think he’s available right now um i wanted you to come up with somebody that they could go after this off seasonason who did you what name came to mind so it was funny because i was trying to do some research because i i wanted to see like even who’s available right so like i i found an article they teared it out okay the the cbs sports right we’ll run through all of them number one kevin these are the stars that might be available kevin durant no uh giannis don’t see it jaylen brown don’t see it uh lowry markin which is kind of funny uh but he’s making 40 like that lowry markin that guy is making $46 million maybe we can get something out of uh utah again we’ll see uh and trey young same money as evan mobley and donovan mitchell yeah that is true that is true you just got to hit that um don’t want he’s not that same player he’s not you know john morant i have think is not going to play in memphis much longer but he’s going to start the season there i i don’t know how that works i would not think that that would be much of a difference i don’t know we’ll see and there is no way on god’s green earth that i would give up anything for zion williamson so those are the stars on this list here the salary dumps dame lillard no jeremy grant trailblazers no han char from the grizzlies no um these were guys brought up about if they like giannis came available jimmy butler pascal seakum fron bagner sangun of the rockets tyler herro draymond green amen thompson stefan castle like those are all guys like like you know pie in the sky um that’s the hard thing like i sit there and i it’s a giant list of guys that i know know like i’m not trading darius garland to go get um uh oh my gosh i get jeremy grant on my mind for some reason i would not do that trade drew holidayiday thank you drew i’m not doing that drew holiday’s 35 absolutely not no oh you want to go in now why he plays a little bit better defense maybe he plays a little bit better in the playoffs no no and is it non-factor offensively yeah like no absolutely not so then here’s my answer and i don’t know who this is and i don’t know what it is it’s the same answer over and over again i need a wing scoreer i need a 6’6 guy that can shoot the three and create his own shot those guys are unicorns usually that guy is who jason tatum usually that’s a guy that is getting big bucks and like i said i love darius garland i just need to find a darius garland that’s like literally five inches taller that’s that’s somehow what i need to find who is that i don’t know you know jiren jackson was on this list and he always kept getting circled around you know for the cavs and things like that and yeah i i’m not making this move to just bring back uh quantity over quality like i need all-star level talent back and do i think that there’s going to be a lot of craziness sure do i think there’s a world uh that a lot of stars are moved i don’t know why i thought about devin booker and like if the suns really wanted to tear that on down if they’re going to move kevin durant he’s really going to go uh wherever you know if giannis goes to the raptors if durant really does go to the knicks carl anthony towns gets moved and all of a sudden booker’s available i don’t know you know um i just think it it it probably is somebody that’s not on anybody’s radar right now because we’re waiting for just some insane off seasonason that i do think is you know everybody said this one’s going to get a little crazy so i hate to tell you and my teachers and my wife would probably tell you but i failed your assignment you did that was you didn’t i asked you to do three things you’re 0 for one so far um 0 for one i don’t even know what the other two were so this is not good oh we are off to just a great start today’s show brought to you by wayfair there is nothing like stepping into your own outdoor space and just feeling like you’ve escaped into a personal oasis summer is here it feels like summer i was walking home from the office the other day and it just it felt like summer outside for i think maybe the first time you know there’s nothing like that 7:30 at night it’s still daylight the warm the warm air is just it feels so 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actually don’t think that um i i have not looked at what his contract is so i don’t know how that would work he is on of course 187 next year 187 next year i don’t know about the future races next year but ah that works i mean i do i believe that trade would work if you would trade would you be willing to trade jared allen for him yeah i would probably because there is there is something i’m intrigued about with the sacramento kings that i don’t know whether or not it would happen um and we are going to tackle this more on tomorrow’s episode but one of the guys that i had for my trade target was herb jones of the new orleans pelicans he’s a lot of some of the things you described he’s certainly more of a defense first wing like he’s not necessarily somebody that i would want to be throwing the ball with with two minutes left in a playoff game and say “hey go get me a bucket.” um but he is somebody that i do think could be a playoff player he shot the ball well for the most part in his career i believe he’s like a 37 or 36% three-point shooter on maybe not the best volume but he is a really really strong defender and i do think that new orleans has had some interest in jared allen in the past so i look at that and say okay that could be a legitimate target for the cavs that could be somebody that they go after and if you get to that point it’s like well was that worth it is that because he’s not as good of a player as jared allen i don’t think that he is and i think you would probably get a little bit more back from new orleans than just look at that fit and say “okay this is not as good of a player but it is the situation where okay the cavs remade their roster in which they might not be as talented as they were but they’re a better team.” uh there’s another guy that i just saw on this list you send jared allen back to the nets and get cam johnson they wanted a kings ransom for him at the trade deadline uh and they’re talking about in this article they say now they got a bad lottery pick could they reconsider moving cam johnson out what do we do for him so i am not i am not as high on cam johnson as i think a lot of people are and i don’t think a lot of teams are as high on cam johnson as the brooklyn nets are um that said like that is a trade that i would do i think that’s a trade that does make sense that’s about what i would be willing to give up for cam johnson um i need to look at his contract because i don’t have that i didn’t plan on talking about cam johnson it’s like 20 i i just in the article it just says next year’s 20 so that’s why i’m assuming it’d be maybe closer comparable to allen’s if it is 20 and again i’m pulling up the trade machine right now to know but if it is 20 you look at that and say that’s a fit now i think that the nets would ultimately probably want more than just jared allen back but i do think that is kind of the that is the avenue that you want to look at say “yeah this is the type of trade that i want to look at this is the type of trade that i do think makes sense.” so cam johnson makes 21 which does not work with jared allen and like that one extra million dollars makes it really really difficult to figure out unfortunately like that is not a path i think they’re they’re going to be able to go down because he’s not a player that is worth hard capping yourself for so i gave you two more homework assignments that we’re going to tackle on tomorrow’s edition of locked on cavs because we are at the time limit for one episode you and i are just going to continue talking um and recording this but if you’re listening to this one thank you for making it your first listen today and every day you can find us anywhere you get your podcast apple spotify anywhere else if you’re watching on youtube hit that thumbs up button for us click click subscribe hit that notification bell we’ll be back tomorrow with all of the homework assignments i told you i gave matt at the very start of this show we’re actually going to talk about that tomorrow because we talked about so much stuff that we did not get into that today so that is all on tomorrow’s edition of locked on caps

On this episode of Locked On Cavs, Danny Cunningham (The Inside Shot, 92.3 The Fan, Cleveland Magazine) is joined by Matt Fontana (ESPN Radio) to explore potential trade scenarios for the Cleveland Cavaliers, focusing on players Darius Garland and Jarrett Allen. The guys discuss the impact of the NBA’s second apron on trade possibilities and analyze specific trade targets. The podcast examines the Cavaliers’ future with Donovan Mitchell, evaluating potential roster changes and their effects on team composition. Danny and Matt debate the merits of trading key players, considering factors such as age, potential, and fit within the team’s long-term strategy. The episode also touches on the challenges of making trades while staying under the salary cap, and the pressure to improve the team’s playoff performance in the coming season.
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