Cavs: 3 things the Andre Drummond situation really showed us
By Chad Porto
Chris Fedor wrote up an interesting behind-the-scenes article recently about Andre Drummond and the Cavs‘ attempt to trade him before the NBA trade deadline. A lot of people have been continuing a narrative that the Cavs sitting him for over a month hurt his trade value and by all accounts; that’s not true.
No, his sitting wasn’t the reason the trade didn’t happen. In fact, the Cavs had offers as Fedor writes, but they all contained bad contracts the Cavs didn’t want to take back.
That wasn’t the only thing we found out about the situation.
Wouldn’t make a trade that hurt the team.
The Cavs had plenty of offers for Andre Drummond according to Cleveland.com’s Chris Fedor. Sitting Drummond didn’t hurt his trade value, what there was left for it anyway.
"Sources say the Cavs were in talks with the Toronto Raptors and Dallas Mavericks, among others, throughout deadline day."
The problem came down to a simple issue; any trade the Cavs made would see Cleveland take back a big, probably long(ish) contract in return. This would hurt the Cavs rebuilding plans down the line. That was something that Fedor pointed out that so few others want to accept.
"The few offers that actually could stack players weren’t appealing to the Cavaliers because of the crippling contracts heading to Cleveland"
While you can get mad at Coby Altman all you want for not moving Drummond, at the end of the day he would’ve only garnered you a second-round pick, at best. What’s a second-round pick compared to the cap flexibility to extend Collin Sexton and Jarrett Allen?