Cavs: The Charge coming to Cleveland is a great, albeit quiet move

The Charge are coming to Cleveland in a move that Cavs fans should love.

The Canton Charge are no more, as the G-League affiliate of the Cleveland Cavs will in fact make their way north in 2021-2022. The team will start their season in November, and will bring even more basketball to the Wolstein Center. The Charge will play their home games there, alongside the men’s and women’s Cleveland State basketball teams.

The move from Canton to Cleveland came when the Charge management decided to move their operations closer to Cleveland to be more in line with the Cavs and their structure. This isn’t too much of a surprise, as the Indians did the same thing years ago when they switched up their Triple-A teams from Buffalo and moved their guys to Columbus. The Mets took over the team for a time before the Blue Jays claimed them as their Triple-A team.

Hopefully, more coverage will follow the Charge.

The issue with Cleveland is that it’s not a huge media town. So unless it’s something major, or one of the three main sports, more than likely you won’t find a lot of press on that item. The Cleveland sports scene has always struggled to maintain a fourth major team of note and there have been many who have tried.

Just since the 1990s, Cleveland had the Crunch/Force, an indoor soccer team. They moved out of town and then the league folded shortly after. There was the Arena Football League that saw success before the team went on a leave of absence from the league, shortly before the league folded.

There was of course the Rockers, the WNBA team that folded while in Cleveland. Not to mention the numerous hockey teams (Lumberjacks/Crusaders/ Barons/Monsters) that have existed in Cleveland over the last 40-odd years that have never gotten a lot of exposure. Mostly due to their minor league stats; but still.

So the odds that the Charge will get a lot of coverage won’t be great but hopefully being closer to the Cavs and downtown Cleveland will at least give them more opportunities to be covered by area beat reporters.