Cavs: Team believes rebuilds can take 4-5 years, setting the table for 2022

The Cavs believe rebuilds take four years to get back to the playoffs. Welp, it’s now year four.

The Cavs have run out of time and excuses. There are talks and feelings inside the Cavaliers headquarters that full rebuilds can take four to five years to come to fruition. At least that’s what we’re told the franchise believes. There seems to be some truth with that, if you trust the source the Cavaliers beat writers use.

Considering it’s the writer’s reputation on the line, they have no reason to lie about the things they’re told. So you better believe if the janitor is telling them things, that it doesn’t get reported on. These writers have the ears of the people in the know.

So when Chris Fedor of Cleveland.com wrote that the Cavs believe it takes four to five years to rebuild a playoff contender, I firmly believe that’s exactly what the Cavs believe. There are even some pieces of recent news to support this.

"The Cavs have studied every rebuild over the last 10 years. The complete teardowns. Ones with a more methodical approach. The not-quite rebuilds (Indiana, Charlotte, Milwaukee). They’ve tried to learn from other teams’ successes — and failures.The goal was to get a general sense of when teams decided to press the go button, what assets to collect, how to best use cap space, which peripheral maneuvers were most beneficial and how long the pain would last.They found a median of 4-5 years, defining success as getting back to the playoffs."

Cavs looking to make moves.

It may seem nutty to think the Cavs are thinking the 2021-2022 season is their chance to break into the playoffs, considering how bad they’ve been over the last three years, but there does seem to be some sort of bubbling possibility that it’s true.

Most rumors you read are real. Now, if a rumor becomes fact, it gets reported as such. Just like you might hem and haw over what you’re having for dinner, sports executives do the same thing. One day they’re thinking about trading Collin Sexton, the next they’re trying to sign him to an extension. Does that mean the Cavs weren’t thinking about it? No, it just means that things have changed since they started thinking about it.

That’s where we are with this rumor. The Cavs are apparently looking into adding veteran talent. That veteran talent may include C.J. McCollum, and if it does, the Cavs may not just be trying to add him, either. It may be more than him.

Who knows?

What we do know is that if year four or five is the year they jump into competition, then it seems to validate the rumor of the Cavs looking at getting some top talent.

It could all be hogwash for we know, but more than likely it’s not.