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Cleveland Cavs (2016 NBA Champions)

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Crawford can't defend at all, but he'll light it up from the field more than Johnson ever could.

Don't look now, but it looks like the Cavs are destined to be Eastern Conference Champs in perpetuity and nothing more. The Spurs getting West and Aldridge is bad, bad news. Duncan still plays like he's in his prime, and he now has replacements to pass to torch to. The only real advantage the Cavs would have in a Finals matchup is Kyrie over Tony Parker's rotting corpse. Danny Green is a better Shumpert, Kawhi Leonard nullifies LeBron, Love is better offensively but worse defensively than Aldridge, and obviously Duncan has a huge advantage over Mozgov. We had better hope someone knocks the Spurs out of the playoffs next year.
 
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JR continued the brain farts late in the season.. by not taking player option
I still think it's 50/50 they re-sign him

plus the Crawford deal may be the only remaining chip to play
 
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LordJeffBuck said:
The Cavs' rosters as it currently stands, ranked in order of importance:

01. Lebron James (assuming he re-signs)
02. Kyrie Irving
03. Kevin Love
04. Iman Shumpert
05. Timofey Mozgov________
06. Tristan Thompson
07.
08.
09.
10. Anderson Varejao
11.
12.
13. Joe Harris
14. Mike Miller
15.

If Delly and James Jones re-sign, they will presumably (hopefully) fill slots #11 and #12 - guys who can give you 8 to 10 minutes a game but won't be relied upon to fill key roles like they had to in this year's NBA finals.

Maybe Rakeem Christmas fills the #15 slot, just for jersey sales - what Cavs fan wouldn't want a Christmas jersey?

It will be interesting to see who fills slots #7, #8, and #9 - those will be key rotational players, maybe the difference between a championship and another second-place finish.
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Updating LJB's template again:

01. Lebron James (assuming he re-signs)
02. Kyrie Irving
03. Kevin Love
04. Iman Shumpert
05. Timofey Mozgov________
06. Tristan Thompson
07. JR Smith
08. Mo Williams
09. Any freaking thing at the wing/SF position with the Haywood contract.
10. Anderson Varejao
11. Matthew Dellavedova
12. James Jones
13. Joe Harris
14. Mike Miller
15. Rakeem Christmas

Pretty much resign JR Smith for 3yr/$21M-ish and then wait around for best they can get with the expiring $12M contract and that's the off-season for me. Doing everything they can with the assets they have. 2nd unit will score more than last year. Interested in what they can do with their final piece because right now my expectations are low for the #9 role.

edit- to add, Mo scored 50 in a game last season (against the Pacers). Still a very capable player and I think the added motivation to be back in Cleveland will drive him. If the Cavs re-sign JR, they would reasonably have 5 players on the roster that could score 30 on any given regular season night. That's important.
 
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Lord Jeff--The Cavs' rosters as it currently stands, ranked in order of importance: red text are NJ changes

01. Lebron James
02. Kevin Love
03. Kyrie Irving
04. Tristan Thompson
05. Iman Shumpert
06. Timofey Mozgov
07. Anderson Varejao
08. Mo Williams
09. Jamal Crawford
10. Delly
11. Jones
12. Joe Harris
13. Mike Miller
14. JR Smith or Draftee A
15. Draftee B

Question...if somehow Cavs did get Johnson, would he be the 'Heywood' of next summer.. with a trade/contract value of $26M or higher??

Would we rather have Crawford or Nick Young?
 
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I am stretching to find SF candidates and I just don't see it. No clue the availability or feasibility of obtaining some of these players but some mid-level names on my wish list-

Gerald Green (UFA)
Alonzo Gee (UFA)
Wilson Chandler (DEN)
Terrance Ross (TOR)

Not sure why the last 2 teams would need to dump more salary but throwing them out there. Green is out of the Cavs price range so it'd be a sign-and-trade, I believe. Again not sure why Phoenix would do that. Gee...I mean, I guess. Of course there's the Vet Min options (Tayshaun Prince or Caron Butler). I hope Griffin has better some options, but I'm struggling to see where/how he pulls anything off.
 
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NJ-Buckeye said:
Question...if somehow Cavs did get Johnson, would he be the 'Heywood' of next summer.. with a trade/contract value of $26M or higher??
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It's been a while so I could be wrong but my understanding is the value of the Heywood contract is ithat it is not guaranteed. So teams can trade for Heywood by lining up salaries and then turn around and cut him to shed the salary. Expiring contracts in general still have some value but not on the level that one set up like Heywood would have. Someone correct me if I'm wrong...
 
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