What’s the Cleveland Cavaliers NEXT MOVE after the DeAndre Hunter trade? + Is Giannis back in play?

What’s the Cleveland Cavaliers NEXT MOVE after the DeAndre Hunter trade? + Is Giannis back in play?

On Saturday night, the Cleveland Cavaliers, Sacramento Kings, and Chicago Bulls cut a three-way deal that, on its surface, doesn’t seem that important: The Cavs landed Keon Ellis and Dennis Schroder, the Kings received De’Andre Hunter, and the Bulls got Dario Saric and two second-round picks for helping facilitate the deal.

But this is also the type of trade that leads one to believe more activity could be on the horizon prior to Thursday’s deadline. Before we dive deeper into what that may actually be, let’s first summarize why it happened. As the league’s most expensive team, built with Finals-or-bust expectations, the underachieving Cavs were always going to be on tilt heading into February. Here, they somehow killed two birds with one stone by bolstering their backcourt and shedding a disappointing return on investment. Hunter, who was traded to Cleveland at last year’s deadline, has been a net negative all season. He’s shooting just 30.8 percent from behind the 3-point line, which pretty much negates all of his value to the Cavaliers right there. | https://www.theringer.com/2026/02/01/nba/giannis-antetokounmpo-nba-trade-rumors-cleveland-cavaliers-trade-keon-ellis

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