BREAKING: The Cleveland Cavaliers Sign Larry Nance Jr!

BREAKING: The Cleveland Cavaliers Sign Larry Nance Jr!

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Listen, we called that one, didn’t we? And we kind of knew that Larry, it’s another W. It’s another W. I had that. So, I’ll take a little credit there. But I I’ll tell you what, it it it felt like it was telegraphed for a little while now if you’ve been paying attention to his socials and whatnot. But this just makes a ton of sense. So, I’m really really really excited about it. And the Cavaliers do have at least one more spot open. And again, this doesn’t guarantee that the Cavaliers are going to advance further than they did last year, but man, it’s another step in the right direction. A true versatile, viable third big option. And listen, I got so many people in my damn mentionings telling me that Larry N Jr. is a tweener. He’s not necessarily a true center. Well, frankly, I don’t give a Listen, 62% of his minutes at center this year, 98% of his minutes at center last year, 81% of his minutes in 2022 23. He’s a center at this point of his career. The best part about what Larry Nes Jr. gives you too is that he can space the floor. He’s a quality rebounder and his his ability to move laterally although sap due to some of the athleticism being weighed due to injury and just age he still is very very mobile out there for what they ask him to do in terms of what Bball index categorizes him right now as the defensive role is mobile big in terms of interior defense rim protection he ranked within the 60th percentile there in rim deterrence 70th percentile there. Help defensive talent very very important to be a help defender at that position with how paced and spaced out today’s offense is 78th percentile post defense 82nd percentile he is in he is a very very valuable piece in terms of defending screen actions out there whether that be the role man i.e the screener mobile defense placed within the 71st percentile there. if he is defending the ball handler coming off or coming around the screen uh and containment screen or rim defense 69th percentile if you want to go outside well from the interior and move on out to the outside on the perimeter that is where things get a little bit choppy with Larry because he just doesn’t have the lateral quickness that he once did but he’s no he’s not chop liver he can more than hold his own 41st percentile this past season on a smallalish sample size but I’m willing to buy what we’ve seen from him in the past. And the Cavaliers are uniquely suited to be able to make up for any of his deficiencies out there. Doesn’t even have to be a slam dump type of signing either. This dude just has to be able to go out there and has to be able to go out there and contribute 10 to 15, maybe 15 to 18 at the high level in terms of minutes per game. And let’s be honest here, the Cavaliers having Eva Mobley, having Jared Allen, having Dean Wade, having DeAndre Hunter, they have enough should Larry need to be managed in a very specific way. Similarly, how to how I feel about how they’re going to have to manage Lonzo Ball. By the way, this physics, we’ll talk about that in a minute. But this right here, Larry Nes Jr. gives you everything you need out of a modernday third pick. He is coming off a season where he shot a career best 44.7% from three-point distance on solid volume two at 3.2 attempts per game. That’s right around where you would expect him to be given the uh play time that he received. 19.3. If you space that out to per 36, that aligns very very well with what you would want out of him. 5.9 attempts per game for beyond the arc. Highly efficient. Again, I get it. smaller sample size than you would like at 24 games or so. But this has been a trend for Larry for a couple of years now, right? He has started as his game and his athleticism has started to Wayne, he has become less reliant on that. He has tried to adapt and one of the ways he is doing that is by upping that volume. He did that midway through his career. You even saw it in in his time with Cleveland where he spent I was about four years there uh three and a half four years prior to uh moving on being traded to Portland and the deal that uh netted us Lowry if I’m not mistaken. Was that the deal? I can’t remember. But at the end of the day, Larry is somebody that you can look at and say, “Hey, this guy does a lot of these things out here on the court, both on the offensive side of the ball and the defensive side of the ball, that make a lot of sense in that second unit, considering the Cavaliers have not had a viable third big for years. Like literally, since Kevin Love departed, it’s been a who uh a who’s who of retreads or just hasb beens or never were going to bees.” like and then that’s no disrespect to the Tristan Thompsons and the Robin Lopez’s of the world, but clearly this team has lacked a third pick for a little while now and they are hypothetically getting one in terms of the what Larry N Jr. can bring to the table. So, man, I am in love with this. I am in love with this. I can’t wait to hop into the chat to, you know, speak to some of these people. This is one that I was talking up for a while. And listen, if you’re getting a little bit antsy considering some of the moves that were being made by other teams, I cannot blame you considering some of the names that we have seen crossed off the board, right? You’ve seen signings left and right at that backup big position, primarily center, where you’ve seen Miles Turner shift teams and go to Milwaukee and we’re all like, “What the hell is going on?” Luke Cornett, another guy that people had pencileled in as one of the top options for Cleveland. Clint Capella, you know, going back to Houston, if I’m not mistaken. Brook Lopez making the jump from Milwaukee to LA. You got Cavon Looney, somebody that I put a video out on yesterday, who I thought would have been an excellent fit, especially for his offensive rebounding prowess. Uh Dron Sharp, Paul Reed, Luke Garza, Luca Garza, these are all names. Jericho Sims, I just released a video on him. Mason Plumbley. These are a lot of bigs that had signed and were considered possibly available for Cleveland on the veteran minimum. And listen, the other name that we had we were all crossing our fingers for Al Horford. Al Horford was in was rumored to be in discussions with that of the Golden State Warriors and the Cleveland Cavaliers. It was really really down to those two teams. I would have been very very happy with that signing. I am ecstatic about this one too because as we all know Larry has personal ties to the city of Cleveland because his father right Larry Nance senior played a number of years here did a lot of good things during the uh price era you know back a while back before a lot of people were born but this is about as good as you can ask for on a veteran minimum contract and it is not without its risks right Larry Nes Jr. has not played more than 67 games in any point in his career. His careerh high came back during the 2018-19 season with Cleveland. That was 67 games where he started for 30 of those. Right. Since then, he has had quite an up and down injury uh rap sheet. Right. Uh he played 24 games this past season for Atlanta. the year prior to that he suited up in 61 the year prior to that in 2022 23 he he he appeared in 65 so it’s always always always going to be a risk in regard to Larry N Jr. But listen I love it I love the gamble I already talked about ad nauseium about how good I think that this will be uh of a fit here in Cleveland not only from a culture standpoint but from an onc court perspective. Listen, that back that that second unit has some really really good balancing potential. Lonzo Ball at the one, Sam Merrill at the two, you could potentially have DeAndre Hunter if you’re going to keep him on the bench at the three. You got uh Dean Wade at the four and and uh Larry Nash Jr. at the five. or if you want to start DeAndre Hunter, you got uh Lonzo, you got Sam, you got the potential of Max Streus there and at that three spot and this is all up in the air right now. This is po hopefully a post DG injury uh world right where DG is in that starting lineup. In a perfect world, you got your starting five of DG, Donovan, uh Hunter, Evan, and uh and Jared on the bench. You got Lonzo, you got um you you got Merryill, you got Strus, you got Wade, and you can you can put Larry out there. There’s a lot of balance. There’s offball shooting, there’s on ball shooting. There’s a lot of things that you can reconfigure here. And you can have DeAndre Hunter have his minutes staggered in such a way that he plays a lot of them with the second unit. So, you have that on ball creation that you are missing out with Ty Jerome because I understand that that is a big big loss there. nobody else on that second unit could create for themselves the way that Ty Jerome could. Craig Porter Jr. just frankly isn’t there yet. Ty Jerome uh uh Jaylen Tyson has potential, but he has hasn’t shown that consistently just yet outside of a handful of games. And Lonzo Ball that’s never really been a part of his game. He creates for others. He’s not necessarily a self-creator. So, if you’re going to stagger Hunter minutes with that second unit, I completely understand. as a way like there are a lot of different lineup combinations that you could have here and Nance bolsters that because not only can you play at the four and contribute good solid minutes there and slide between either uh you can play him at lineups beside Jared Allen or Evan Mobley that’s beautiful especially if you’re planning on playing Evan Mobley at the five you could put Larry Nes Jr at the four or vice versa Larry is versatile enough to play center right that is what he has been doing these last three So, this gives you so much flexibility. Larry is also a very, very underrated passer. Like, we’re talking about what we’re getting from Lonzo in terms of the facilitation of it all and how good of a ball mover he is. We talked about how um underrated Sam Merrill is as a connective piece of tissue. We talked about how excellent Max Streus is in that same vein. And Larry, he’s cut from that same cloth. Like, he may not be a guy that’s ever truly going to average a ton of assist. Um his career high, by the way, is 3.2. two for a game back during that 1819 season with Cleveland. But he is always a guy that’s always moving the ball. Uh plays very very smart, high IQ type of player. Will always look to make that hockey assist and swing pass. There’s so much potential here. I’m just glamoring for this man. 44.7% from three-point distance this season. good volume, good rebounder at uh at 4.3 per game this year for Atlanta. Solid defender, not necessarily elite at this point in his career, but he’s defensively versatile enough to give you exactly what you need in, you know, 15 to 18 minutes per game for Cleveland. And as long as you don’t overuse him, as long as you don’t ride him too hard in that second unit, you’re good. You’re good. He suited up in 19.3 for Atlanta this year, 19.9 the year before that with New Orleans uh 21.2. So, if you can keep him in that 15 to 18 minute range, maybe no more than 20 minutes, I think you’re good. I think you’ll be able to circumvent some of the injury concerns. And with Larry, again, it’s always going to be a tossup. There’s always going to be that risk factor there involved. Same thing with Lonzo and a number of other players on the roster. But I like the gamble considering the other available options on the market because frankly if you haven’t checked who who was left on that open market, you’re doing yourself a disservice. There just isn’t really many viable options left. You would be taking a flyer on basically everybody else that’s left out there. And it is not looking good. It is really a short list of folk. You got Mo Vagner who’s probably going to be picked up by somebody out of Cleveland’s that was probably already out of Cleveland’s price range. Al Horford already mentioned would have loved Al here in Cleveland, but he’s probably going to go to the Golden State Warriors. Now, Tristan Thompson obviously uh Cavaliers would love to have back in a coaching capacity, I would assume, but I doubt that they would even even attempt to resign him. Tosh Gibson, DeAndre Jordan, Thomas Bryant, Jackson Hayes, Charles Bassie, Alex Lyn, Bisma, who I would have been okay with had we not had we would have struck out on Al and Larry. and then Mah Potter per spot track. That is the only selection th those were these the the players that you are likely to select from in terms of pure centers or at least guys who primarily suit up there. You’re not doing better on a better minimum contract. You just aren’t. So everybody out there poo pooing Kobe Alman for the offseason that he had. I can certainly understand why you feel the way you feel after we got the news with Ty Jerome signing with Memphis on the type of contract that he got. But I think the Cavaliers are betting and betting hard that they’ll experience a good solid level of internal growth and development not only from the core four but some of these younger prospects getting Tyrese Proctor in the second round where they had a they had him at a first round grade and he just signed a multi-year contract this year. Uh well this uh today actually I believe four years eight or so million dollars. That’s a solid move right there. And again, I was pretty pissed with the latter pick in that draft, but it was a draft and stash for a reason, and I can overlook it. And giving Sam Merrill a contract that many people feel like was an overpay. If you feel like that, you know, it’s okay. It’s all right. I I certainly understand after seeing some of the deals that have been handed out and seeing what some of these veterans have been able to be had for, but in terms of in-house options, uh if you did not resign Sam, you weren’t likely to be able to bring in somebody that brought you the same level of sharp shooting that he did to the table. So, yes, you did over you may have slightly overpaid to keep Sam Merrill, but I think it’s going to work out. they are betting that one or you know at least one of Tyson Proctctor or um Tyson Proctor or Craig Porter Jr. will actually be able to take that step forward and then you have secondary options that are not far off in Naquon Tomlin as well. And then they left the two-way spot open. Who do I think it’s that? I think it’s got to be down to Khif Dop or Nadamir who got signed in exhibit 10. And that is pure speculation on my part. Ammani definitely could be brought back, but he was not tendered a u a qualifying offer. So, the writing could be on the proverbial wall. We’ll have to see how that situation plays out. But when you look at what Cleveland now has under contract and on their uh their depth chart, I’m feeling better. I’m feeling a hell of a lot better than I did waking up this morning considering who we had, right? You have Donovan Mitchell, Darius Garland, DeAndre Hunter, Evan Moly, Jared Allen, Max Streus. You still have Dean Wade. You have Jaylen Tyson, Craig Ber Jr., Tyrese Proctor, Lonzo B. Now you have Larry and Aquinon Tomlin technically has a two-way contract and Luke Travers as well. So the question is, what do they do with that final spot? Do you give it to a veteran? Do you leave it open? I don’t know. It is a question. I actually think they have two. I think they have actually have two more spots left open. What what is likely to happen is they sign a player and then they leave a spot open. And again, um don’t take me for that. Don’t take my word for that right now because Sprak still has not actually configured the exact lineups. And I think you have three pending transactions right now. Um so they might actually No, they might actually be at 14 after this sign. You got Lonzo, Larry. Guys, you got to forgive me. I’m terrible at math. Lonzo, Sam, Larry, that is three, Evan, four, Donovan, five, Darius 6, DeAndre 7, Jared, eight, Max nine, Dean 10, Jaylen 11, Craig 12, Tyrese 13. No, this is 13. So, this theoretically still leaves two spots open. They will likely sign one more and then probably leave one open. If I am Kobe, if I am Kobe, what I end up doing is probably go ahead and attempt to sign another big wing. Now, I know that that might sound crazy to some folks out there, but I think I would go the wing route because they did not re-up on Juma’s contract. They uh I think they let that expire. And with that being the case, you don’t really have too much in terms of wing depth, like big big big wings. Like we know, we think of DeAndre Hunter as a wing. Max Streus technically is a wing for how they play him or how they have chosen to play him these last two or so seasons. Uh Sam Merrill is not a wing, though they continue to play him like one. Jaylen Tyson certainly qualifies as such, but the depth when you’re talking about those last couple of spots at the end, yeah, you’re I think you would go ahead and bring in a a larger wink. If you’re not going to go that route, what I think you would likely want to do is get one more solid ball handler in here in case you’re kind of hesitant in regards to Craig Porter Jr. and Lonzo Ball actually working out as your primary league guard off the bench, especially with Darius Garland missing or presumably missing the beginning of the season. So, if you’re going to go the guard route, I would probably look to get somebody who is leans more in terms of shot creation, somebody that can go out there and create their own offense. And there are a couple of names to look at on the open market. You know, they’re not A1 options. They’re certainly not ones that I would be clamoring to get, but there are a few names out there that I will be dropping some content on. Uh there are some there are definitely some wild card options as well that you’ll probably see a video from me dropping probably tonight in regards to who I think is another acquisition they might want to chase after. But this just opens up that line of flexibility for them. If you’re like there because I conversed with so many people over the last 24 hours that told me, “Yeah, you need to get a a bonafide 7 foot big. You need to get somebody that’s like a true big body center.” If you’re looking at it that way, I suppose there are still some bodies out there that you might look to bring in. I already mentioned Bambo. Even at 69, he doesn’t really like he’s a big he’s a big 69, a beefy 69. So, if you want to bolster the center ranks, like true center, you can go that route and then try and fit Larry in as more of a four five than true five out there. But, I can certainly see certain avenues that they could go down. But, they got two spots open if I’m not mistaken after today. So, they will likely sign one more player on the veteran minimum and leave that la that last spot open for one of two things. They’ll either convert a two-way contract, which I could definitely see happen because that’s been kind of like the track record for them over the last couple of seasons, or they’ll add an additional on the buyout market after they make a trade mid-season because there are, let’s not mince words here, Dean Wade is on an expiring deal. So Dean Wade may very well be on the move this upcoming trade deadline. He could definitely be somebody that I could see finishing out the year and um you know letting him either walk or trying to sign and trade him, but I think it also would make sense to try and recoup some of your value if you’re wanting to kind of move on towards the future at that position. But even with that being the case, like these are all small gamles. Um, Naquin Tomman is somebody I’ve talked about a lot as being a potential replacement for Dean Wade, assuming that they give him the actual opportunities, but all I’m saying, I know I’m rambling here, but all I’m saying to you guys is that Kobe has given this team a lot of lineup flexibility with some of the moves that have been made. And yes, I get it. Losing Ty Jerome sucks, especially watching him sign the type of contract that he did at the average annual value that he did in terms of the yearly um the yearly amounts. But I do believe that there is something there with Lonzo. I do believe that there is something there with Larry N Jr. And I do think that there is a lot of potential for this for this second unit to look a lot more balanced and really just the team in general to look a lot more balanced on both ends of the floor. Lonzo already adds size to that back court. He adds a defensive spark that they haven’t had in a while in that package. He adds facilitation. He adds uh rebounding from the guard position. He has a decent offball shot maker. I refuse to believe that the 36 the 30% shooting that he had last year will be the new norm for him. Larry N Jr. adds versatility in your front court. Whether that be defensive of the defensive variety or positional variety. He gives you rebounding. He gives you floor stretching. He gives you smart high IQ basketball ball movement out of the high post. I love it, man. I love it. So, I would love to know what you guys think. I’m going to go ahead and hop into the chat now, but I this is this is uh shaping up to be a decent off seasonason so far for uh Kobe Alman. It’s not perfect. Ty Jerome, what what happened with him, it’s going to put a stain on this off seasonason, but if everything works out, if some of these guys stay healthy, and I’m banking that they will, man, like something’s got to even out. The law of averages has to even out. Murphy’s law is not going to apply anymore going forward. But I’m speaking it into existence. And for those of you who are unaware of Murphy’s law, everything that can go wrong will. It won’t. It is not going to happen. I’m speaking that into existence because we’ve had a good run of speaking things into existence. Now, we talked Lonzo onto the roster. We talked Larry onto the roster. It’s looking good. It’s looking good. Let’s see what you guys had to say. Chief Te says, “Yo, Larry back.” Yep. Love it. Bryson says, “Yes.” Gary says, “Let’s go.” Oh, Joseph Santos. Cayla Martin or Mir Coffee are next. I wouldn’t be opposed to either of those two. Thasmon Sim says, “Love the move.” Me too, Taz. Nate says, “Already better than Jared Allen.” Nah, get the out of here with that, but he is a good option. Lil Men OG says, “Our whole offseason is hot garbage while the Bucks Hawks Magic get bucked. Typical like John Fantiset, we’re mid.” I don’t agree there. I definitely feel like the Cavaliers by virtue of this Larry Nance Jr. condition and the gamble that they took for Isaac in swapping Isaac’s salary essentially for Lonzo. Big gamble, but I do do definitely believe it can pay off and it makes me feel a hell of a lot better uh without due to what happened to Ty Jerome to get a viable third big. So, the Cavaliers, they’re switching things up. It sucks to not get Tai back, but I think they’re going to be able to make up for it. Jaguar 1964 says, “What exactly did you guys expect to happen this offseason? The second apron exists. There was never any big moves the Cavs could make except for veteran minimums. There were certainly big moves that they could make if they decided they wanted to go that route. Darius Scarland and Jared Allen could have very much been on the move this off season and the offseason actually isn’t over yet. So, there’s still possibility of something happening, but I always doubted that was the possible route that they would have taken. It was always more likely that they would go to veteran minimum route and resign one of their two in-house unrestricted free agents in Tai Jerome and Sam Merrill. and they chose Meryill and they have now brought in Lonzo and Larry and hopefully they’ll complement it with one more solid veteran addition and call it a day man. Nate says, “Moly and Allen, why do we need a backup center?” I think it’s kind of self-explanatory. Watch what happens to the defense and to a certain degree, watch what happens to the offense when one of the two is out. Evan Mobley in particular, like this things crumble on both ends of the floor when Evan Moley misses time. You need a viable third big and you’ve needed one for a while. You don’t necessarily need one that is going to play 24 minutes plus per game, but you need one. You need at least one. Tristan Thompson wasn’t cutting it. Dean Wade is not that. DeAndre Hunter is not a third big even though they gave him a lot of minutes at power forward this year. So, it made sense. It’s been a need for a while. Smoo much says we got two centers already. Nance got quick pe uh feet for a power forward. Um you have two starters. You you didn’t have a third big. That’s that’s what this is about. HJ17 Gaming says Larry is home. $40 million Jet says $400 million Jet says Cavs love them Larry Nance. They certainly do. RJ Spiller says 2019 RJ or I can’t read right now. R Spelleller 2019 says welcome back to the Cavaliers. Nance Cameron Johnson says can you speak on some of Larry passing and also you think we can get a hold of Al Horford or anything else with two roster spots open? I think like you technically can, but I think Al probably would see this move as signifying or signaling that he probably doesn’t have like a guaranteed path to minutes. So, it would make more sense to go ahead and sign elsewhere if that is his priority. Cheryl Cherro Cotton says, “Good signing. I like it.” I agree. I’m right there with you. Thiago Enriquez says, “Do you think we need a shot creator? ball handlers coming from the bench. We probably have Tyson. I think there’s a viable or real argument that can a valid argument that can be made that yeah, they could use an additional shot creator out there. Somebody that can create their offense or self-create because Lonzo that’s never really been his game. And Craig Porter Jr. has not shown that at the NBA level consistently. And Jaylen Tyson has that ball handling element aspect to his game and we’ve seen it like come and go in terms of creating for himself, but he hasn’t done it consistently enough to inspire enough confidence that he is going to be able to do that on a playoff level in the second unit. None of these guys have. So yeah, you can make a justifiable argument that if they use that last spot, they should probably look to address it with somebody who can create their own shot. And there are some guards out there and maybe even some wings that can do that. But it is uh I’ll leave that to Kobe Alman to figure out what they’re going to do. Tony Malfa says, “Would love to get Brogden with that last roster spot and build his trade value while DG eases back.” I don’t I don’t hate that idea. Malcolm Brogden at 6’4 or so would fit perfectly on this roster, but it just depends upon what he prioritizes the most. Is it play time? Is it money? Is it a chase to Is it a chance to chase a ring at this point in his career? What is what will it be? Who knows? Gabriel uh Carmona says, “You think Mitchell has to be our two option to us uh for us to win a title?” No, I think that at best or at worst he would have to be 1B to Moy’s 1A. At best, he would be 1A and Moy would be 1B, but I just don’t see it happening any other way. It would have to be Evan being no worse than 1B to Donovan’s 1A. I just don’t think you’re going to win a title with do with with Darius Garland being your best like your best player on the floor. I just don’t see that happening. And that’s not to on Darius. I just think if the team wants to get to where it needs to be, I think Darius would have to take somewhat of an um he would continue to lean into the distributor role. Donovan would probably continue to see touches to Evan and on and on and on. But yeah, I don’t think that he has to be the second option. I I would view it more as 1A a 1B like it was with LeBron and Kyrie. You could really like there’s a lot of arguments with LeBron and Kyrie, but I I never truly viewed Kyrie as a second option. I always viewed him as 1B to LeBron’s 1A on that team. The ju the tribe of Judas as you call Lonzo and Larry Nance. I’m having a good offseason, man. I’m having a good off season. Um, I think that in terms of the fit here, both of them give you exactly what you need on paper. That’s the problem though. It’s just on paper. Theoretically, it makes a ton of sense to flip the salary of Isaac for Lonzo. It makes a ton of sense to acquire Larry on the veteran minimum as opposed to some of the other options on the market. But with their injury histories, you’re always taking a gamble. But what injury like what title run isn’t without some risk takingaking? Like you got to take some chances to win a title and you got to take some gamles to win a title and you need a little bit of luck to win a title. And for me, I am putting my money on there and you guys can bookmark this. You you can do whatever you want to do. You can clip it. I will go on the record and say I think each one of these guys has one of their more productive, one of their most healthy seasons yet because the Cavaliers will find a way to manage them. And maybe I’m drinking the Kool-Aid a little bit too much. Maybe you think I’m crazy for suggesting that this team who has had well known uh well known and well doumented injury concerns over the last couple years with various players. You might call me crazy and I’m willing to live with that, but I I’m going to go on record saying right now I do believe that the Cavaliers will find a way to have both of these guys moderately healthy come the postseason. And we’re talking about a team that although there was a lot of there was a lot of dings, right? over the course of an 82 game season, you’re going to suffer injuries and and that is no different for this Cavaliers team. But this is a team that did have six players who played at least 70 games or more last year. And I do think they’re built in a way to facilitate that for Lonzo and Larry in ways that they just frankly have not really ever had, especially in the case of Lonzo. I think you can definitely make that happen. Again, with those the types of injuries that he has sustained, the well-known documented injury was with his knee in particular, it’s always going to be a tossup. You can’t protect him. You can’t put him in bubble wrap for the entirety of the year. I suppose you could, but wouldn’t be good. Um, there was always going to be some risk involved, but I love the risk that they’re taking here. I love the onc court uh the onc court benefit and versatility that Larry could afford you. Uh same thing with Lonzo. And then I love the off the court stuff with Larry too. He is a perfect locker room presence. He is a veteran, very very vocal type of leader. I think everywhere he’s played, people have raved about him. I there’s just been a lot of good that follows Larry in terms of the off the court stuff and I don’t see that changing in the latter stages of his career. But I just had to hop on here and say something cuz that’s this is ecstatic news to me. Ecstatic. I’m feeling ecstatic. I I feel great about what we just watched occur with this signing and I hope the Cavaliers can bring it home with one more solid edition and I’ll be um pumping out a little bit more free agent content. But uh I’m going to trust and believe that Kobe knows what he’s doing cuz he’s made some savvy moves. He’s made some savvy moves and I know the tyrama of it all is going to leave a sour taste in people’s mouths, but listen, I’m willing to let it go. I’m willing to let it go as long as we can bring this thing home because acquiring Lonzo, then acquiring Larry on top of that, that’s enough. That’s enough right there. And then Tyresese Proctor of it all. So you you’ve lost Ty Drrome, you’ve lost Isaac Aoro, you got uh you got Tyrese Proctor, you got Lonzo Ball, and you got Larry Nish Jr. And yeah, I suppose you could say that we lost Tristan Thompson, too. But you did you really did Did you really uh did you really lose Tristan Thompson? I don’t think so. And you didn’t ship out any picks to get any of these guys. You got Lonzo with no picks. You got you got uh you got Larry on a veteran minimum and you drafted Proctor. Like that’s good. That’s a solid value value level off season without making like huge moves. You did tweak things along the margins as we always expected and that was always going to be more than likely the case. So now all we do is wait. And let me tell you the next step that I’m waiting for outside of this last signing is summer league. Bro, I cannot wait to see some of these young guys in action. Norad Omir. I can’t wait to see Cheney Johnson. I can’t wait to see Jaylen Tyson. Hopefully Khalifa Dop, Tyresese Proctor, and them boys. I can’t wait to see this summer league, you know, come July 10th and onward. I’m going to be glued to the television. I am I can’t wait. I haven’t been this excited about summer league in in a in a couple of years, but here we are. Let me know how you guys feel about this. Larry Nanch Jr. signing in the comments below. As I always tell you, if you like retail, tell me you know I can. It’s Cabar Pod on Twitter, Tik Tok, Instagram, YouTube, and more. If you want to be added to the IS Cavalary Discord chat, you know what to do. 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