Cavs seeing Redd?

June 2, 2008

There is speculation today that the Cleveland Cavaliers are considering a trade with the Milwaukee Bucks, to acquire Michael Redd. Patrick McManamon of the Akron Beacon-Journal says in his piece that there is a lot of talk about a trade, and that it could be realistic. SO yea, right now everything is pure talk but let’s take a look at what could be possible. Read more

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Ilgauskas out 2 weeks

March 3, 2008

Cleveland Cavaliers center Zydrunas Ilgauskas will be out of the lineup for at least 2 weeks. Ilgauskas has been dealing with a strained back now for most of the season. “I’ve been fighting it for the past two or three months and it just got worse over the last few days,” Ilgauskas said. “I had a hard time getting out of the car [on Saturday]. Back pain is the worse pain there is.”

If the pain is getting that bad, right now would be the best time for Ilgauskas to take that needed time off. The Cavs are virtually guaranteed a playoff berth so why not take the time off and get fully healthy or as close to as he could. The Cavs have dealt with injury problems all season long. Daniel Gibson and Sasha Pavlovic are all hurt right now as well, and could also miss up to 2 weeks or more. “It sucks because we can’t get the team together,” Ilgauskas said. “We’ve been taking turns in or out of the lineup because someone’s getting hurt. Hopefully this is it.”

For Cleveland to mak a deep run in the playoffs this is going to have to be it, or they wont be going far at all.

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Could Mike Miller be joining the Cavs?

February 20, 2008

ESPN’s Chad Ford thinks so after an early report. Ford says “The deal, as described to me by a player agent, would send Miller, [Brian] Cardinal and [Kyle] Lowry to the Cavaliers for Ira Newble, Donyell Marshall, Shannon Brown, Cedric Simmons and Dwayne Jones along with cash and at least one first-round pick from Cleveland.”

Pretty interesting deal there, just like all the other ones we’ve been seeing. But who and how does this benefit teams. First, the Memphis Grizzlies, they’ve already dealt Pau Gasol. So what are they doing? Dumping contracts and rebuilding the team. Pretty funny since they were never really built up to contender status, so its kind of hard to say “rebuilding”. More of a its time we start over we did it wrong. There’s not much plus really for the Grizzlies other then they’d get to dump Cardinal’s contract.

The Cleveland Cavaliers, well they have a lot to like in this deal. Mike Miller has never been a true star in the NBA, but he’s a solid starter. He’d most likely take over the 2 spot on the Cavs, and bump Sasha Pavlovic to the bench. Miller has played 52 games this season, and scored 16.8 points a game, while pulling down 6.5 boards, and shooting 43% from behind the arc. Not bad numbers, and definitely more consistent then Pavlovic and Newbie.

But like everything it comes down to money. The Cavs don’t have much to deal with so they’d be willing to take on Cardinals hefty $13 million over 2 years that he has left on his contract. But here’s the kicker. Cardinal and Miller both have their contracts expiring in the summer of 2009-2010. Who becomes a free agent then? King Lebron James. This would free up even more money for the Cavaliers to be able to resign the leagues superstar. It would also allow them to either re-sign Miller if the two work well together or just work on adding more pieces to convince James that Cleveland is where he belongs.

Now once again, this is just a rumor from Chad Ford at ESPN. There hasn’t been much out there to say that a deal is imminent or even possible other then him. This is just my two cents on why the deal makes some sense.