Cleveland Cavaliers: Clean House If No Championship?

What do the Cleveland Cavaliers do if they cannot win the NBA Championship again this season? The Voice of the Fan looked back at what could have been as well as the team’s situation going forward.

We all know the brunt of the work Cleveland Cavaliers general manager David Griffin puts in on since the team entered a win now situation after LeBron James came back. They got oh so close last year without the use of Kevin Love for most of the playoffs and Kyrie Irving in the finals against the Golden State Warriors.

Cleveland was on a mission last year and LeBron almost willed the championship back to northeast Ohio. Between he, Matthew Dellavedova, and Tristan Thompson, they almost made achieved that goal.

However,what happens if they fall short once again? The way the Cleveland Cavaliers are up one night and down the next, they might not even make the finals this year. Now what? LeBron and company are a year older and what can the Cavaliers do with their cap situation? Let alone all the draft choices they have traded!

The Cleveland Cavaliers have four players that are eating up the majority of cap space. Those players are James, Irving, Love and Thompson. Dellavedova has played fairly well and will want a raise for which he is entitled.

Cleveland does not have a first-round pick in June’s NBA Draft and can they even keep Channing Frye? They have once again put themselves back in a corner, maybe worse than when LBJ left the first time. Now there is even a chance he may again, slim as it may be, leave again.

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So would it be time to trade away Irving and Love? Let’s face it, Irving is supposed to be a point guard that distributes the basketball — yet he is more suited to be a shooting guard. Love has not always fit into the offense. He has had his share of both good and bad games and at times he looks lost on the floor!

If you were not awake to watch the Minnesota Timberwolves play the Golden State Warriors on the road Wednesday night, you missed a whale of a game and great performances from small forward Andrew Wiggins, center Karl-Anthony Towns, and guard/forward Shabazz Muhammad! A team not even close to the playoffs beat the Warriors on their home floor as they have lost two of their last three games.

It makes me wonder was the Love trade a smart move? To have a young talent like Wiggins for the foreseeable future would have been great! What could the Cleveland Cavaliers get for Irving in a trade?

They may have to do something if this team does not get it together quick. The playoffs are a blink away and even the Toronto Raptors are on the Cleveland Cavaliers heels!

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Not to mention the San Antonio Spurs or Warriors are likely to be the West representative in the NBA Finals. Oh wait, this is starting to sound like a Cleveland Browns reboot!

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