Cavs’ Joe Harris to Undergo Season-Ending Surgery?

Second-year Cleveland Cavaliers guard Joe Harris will undergo potentially season-ending surgery on his right foot, Harris’ agent, Mark Bartelstein, told ESPN.com on Tuesday. “There is an extra bone in his foot that is causing irritation, and the plan is to have it removed,” Bartelstein said. Source: Dave McMenamin of ESPN

Basketball Insiders  •  15 Oct 2021
Source: Cavs Undecided on Keeping Jared Cunningham

The Cleveland Cavaliers have yet to make a decision on if Jared Cunningham will be a member of the team after this week, league sources have informed cleveland.com. The organization has a Jan. 10 deadline to either cut the high-flying 6-3 guard or guarantee his $981,348 salary for the remainder of the season. “Whatever happens, […]

Basketball Insiders  •  15 Oct 2021
Current NBA Trade Exceptions

Trade exceptions can be a helpful tool to make deals. Salary Cap guru Eric Pincus breaks down the current trade exceptions.

Alan Draper  •  15 Oct 2021
Kyrie Irving’s Minutes Restriction to be Lifted?

It was nearly two weeks ago when point guard Kyrie Irving made his much-anticipated season debut against the Philadelphia 76ers. Since that Sunday contest, Irving has been on a minutes restriction, yet to top 26 minutes in four games. “We’re getting close to being beyond that,” Cavs head coach David Blatt said Friday when discussing […]

Basketball Insiders  •  15 Oct 2021
Blatt Vague in Naming Cavs’ Primary Back-up Point Guard

It was a pretty simple question: How does Cleveland Cavaliers coach David Blatt delineate his team’s depth chart at point guard? “We have three and even under the circumstances four guys that can play the position of ball guard or point guard if you want to call it,” Blatt said after practice Friday, referring to […]

Basketball Insiders  •  15 Oct 2021
LeBron Nearly Outscores Nuggets Starters in Win

On nearly 31-year-old legs, LeBron James found a little more elevation for all his emphatic dunks. Had to be the thin air of Denver, he concluded. “When the air is thick, it kind of holds me back a little bit when I jump,” James joked. “I was trying to put a staple in the game.” […]

Basketball Insiders  •  15 Oct 2021
Suns Coach Hornacek Mistakenly Calls Out Dellavedova

Following the Phoenix Suns’ 101-97 loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers on Monday, embattled Suns coach Jeff Hornacek criticized Cavs guard Matthew Dellavedova for provoking officials into calling an offensive foul on Tyson Chandler late in the game. Only there was one major problem with Hornacek’s criticism: Dellavedova was on the bench during the play, in […]

Basketball Insiders  •  15 Oct 2021
Source: Cavs’ David Blatt Calls Team Meeting

Before the Cleveland Cavaliers broke their two-game losing streak by defeating the Phoenix Suns 101-97 on Monday, they had a team meeting in the morning, league sources told cleveland.com. Head coach David Blatt called for the meeting before the team took the court for shootaround, sources said. Concerned about the psyche and spirit of his […]

Basketball Insiders  •  15 Oct 2021
Cavs’ Irving to Sit Back-to-Backs

Cleveland Cavaliers guard Kyrie Irving did not play in Saturday’s 105-76 loss to the Portland Trail Blazers. The plan for Irving to rest, with the Cavs playing in their first back-to-back games since Irving’s return nearly a week ago from a fractured left kneecap, is simply part of the team’s process to ease the three-time […]

Basketball Insiders  •  15 Oct 2021