The Cleveland Cavaliers have signed LeBron James in a free agency and after trading away Jarrett Jack to the Nets, and now the team may look at a Kevin Love trade and names like Andrew Wiggins, Anthony Bennett, Anderson Varejao, Dion Waiters or Tristan Thompson to help clear out more cap space and that would give Kyrie Irving some major support.
This story is still fluid, but James is back and now Bill Simmons writes that the team coupld potentially try to trade for Kevin Love. James made his announcement on SI.com and now will be heading home to Cleveland. James is just the fifth player ever to leave his team as a number one pick and return and now the Cavaliers could look at trading for Love. Marc Stein at ESPN.com reports that Love is intrigued by the idea and would sign long term of moved there. This could be a major move and adding him to the mix with LeBron and Irving makes for a new Big 3 in the east.
According to ESPN.com, the Cavaliers have made their pitch to James's agent and they feel that he is considering it as an option, while other reports say he will be going to Miami. Marc Stein on ESPN writes that no decision has yet been made, even after James met with Miami and Pat Riley in Las Vegas. The Cavaliers are making a strong push and they could sign him if they bring in other players like Mike Miller or Ray Allen, two teammates of James in Miami.
ESPN.com reports that the Cavaliers have reached out to both players and that could be one reason why James picks Cleveland. Brian Windhorst on ESPN knows James better than anyone and while he admits that Cleveland is a possibility, he said that James likely will not sign there due to the executive situation. James would be playing for a coach that has never coached in the NBA and one that he has never met, playing for a general manager in his first job that he has also never met and on top of that, the owner Dan Gilbert, totally massacred LeBron when he first left Cleveland. That doesn't sound too appealing.
James is the best player in the world and he now has two championships to his name and he could potentially leave Miami to head home to Cleveland. The team traded away Jarrett Jack to free up cap space and now ESPN.com reports that more trades could be on the way if the team can get James. Waiters has been shopped since last season, while Varejao and Thompson also could be on the move to bring James in.
Last season the Cavaliers went 33-49 in the eastern conference and missed the playoffs again, but they snagged the number one overall pick in the draft despite having a 1.7 percent chance of winning the lottery. The team likely would have taken Joel Embiid if he was not injured and now they have Andrew Wiggins alongside Kyrie Irving and Anthony Bennett, who was taken number one last year. Irving is signing a max contract with the Cavs and that gives the team a solid core to build around if they sign James, or even if they don't.
James has been waiting to see how things play out with Carmelo Anthony and Chris Bosh and now that Chandler Parsons has received an offer sheet, Houston has to start moving. Bosh is considering their max offer and he may leave, while reports say Bosh will stay in Miami if LeBron does. The Heat are committed to playing and building around James and he has had a successful run there with the Big 3, but it could be coming to an end depending on how free agency plays out.
