Blow it up. Love, and anyone else anyone wants, for as many lottery draft picks they can get...in addition to their own picks. Tank it Sixers-style.
Here is the problem ... anybody that wants Love, will not be in the Lottery
Second, wouldn’t it be smarter to keep him for the beginning of the season, he will probably increase his scoring average and thus more value as a trade deadline trade?
If it was me, I trade Korver (cheap contract & needed skill to playoff teams) ... as for the rest, be smart and only trade at the trade deadline for a desperate team to get max value ... except JR, get rid of him as soon (yesterday) as possible for anything ... resign Hood.
I would look at Indiana ... while they don’t have a NBA championship, they have been consistently decent ... with something like 25 playoff teams in the last 30 years ... including 6 Eastern Conference Finals and 1 NBA finals appearance ... while not great, but consistently good basketball in a similar situation.
I believe I mentioned in a different thread a Love deal to land a lottery level pick would have to be some sort of three team deal.
What are Cavs moves now?
Cavs win 50 games.
It'll be interesting to see how good of a coach Ty Lue actually is. I hope Sexton gets all the minutes he's capable of playing. Ship out Clarkson, JR and Thompson for the 58th, 59th and 60th picks if you have to. Send Love to Portland for CJ McCollum or Simons+Aminu or something. Burn it to the ground and rebuild it with all the draft picks you can get.
Never thought I'd say this, but I couldn't agree more. This has to be done from the ground up. That is the way Golden State did it. Of course, they hit on their draft picks, and the pressure is now on Altman to do the same. But they can ill afford to loose that draft pick next year, and Love will be on an expiring contract in two years and he might glean a first round pick.
Now, it's time to try to jettison those top-heavy contracts and let the re-build begin.
Altman is a genius if he can figure out a way to dump the JR, TT, Hill and Clarkson contracts.
Unfortunately, Love is at the lowest point in his career value-wise, so as Joe suggested they may get their best value holding him and hoping him getting the ball more and being the focus of the offense bolsters his numbers and value to a trade deadline move. That however, is a risk given his recent injury history.
Hopefully, they can rebuild it without a Browns level historic tanking. I lived through the Stepien years. This can't be worse.
Altman is a genius if he can figure out a way to dump the JR, TT, Hill and Clarkson contracts.
Unfortunately, Love is at the lowest point in his career value-wise, so as Joe suggested they may get their best value holding him and hoping him getting the ball more and being the focus of the offense bolsters his numbers and value to a trade deadline move. That however, is a risk given his recent injury history.
Hopefully, they can rebuild it without a Browns level historic tanking. I lived through the Stepien years. This can't be worse.
How about a 76ers historic level tanking?
The Sixers tank plan worked. Stepien actually traded away all the Cavs first rounders for garbage veterans, so they had awful records but didn’t get to use the draft picks. It actually resulted in the so-called Stepien rule, where a team cannot trade away its first round pick two consecutive years.
I get tanking, but I don't think you have to strip things completely down to the studs to do it. Quality franchises keep it rolling without a tank job. You can rebuild without being historically bad.
I went to the Cavs regularly during the Stepien era as a buddy who was Cavs ball boy got 2 tickets for every game. There were night where there couldn't have been 500 people in the Coliseum. I clearly remember those trades and guys like Mike Bratz, Roger Phegley, Jerome Whitehead...
I agree completely ... I had a friend who worked for the Cavs during that time ... I would get in free half the time ... man it was bad.
To me it could be a selective rebuild ... when a good opportunity arises you strike a deal ... if you can get a really good deal for KLove, take it, if not hold on to him ... yea, you might take a few steps back here and there, but a complete rebuild, no ... people want to point to the 76ers as an example ... but forget about the Kings, who have been in tank mode for a decade or more. Some people want to point to GS ... but they were never in tank mode ... yes, they had a couple bad seasons, but mostly due to injuries, not tanking. Curry was a 7th pick, Thompson was a 11th pick, and Green a 35th ... don’t have to have only top picks to get good.
World B. Free, Kenny Carr, Bobby Wilkerson, Ron Brewer...ahhh the memories. LOL. Park right up next to the building and hear your own voice echo when you yelled during the game. Quite an era.