Honestly, that's not a bad deal for the Cavs but it's very risky given Bledsoe's injury history. Still, given healthy, that's a stronger team than the one they trotted out last year.


https://www.yahoo.com/news/nba-lebron-james-misunderstanding-led-102624949.html

Kyrie Irving’s trade request to Cleveland Cavaliers came after he mistakenly believed LeBron James wanted him out of the team this summer, according to reports.

Irving surprised the basketball world by formally asking the Cavs to trade him, with many believing that he wanted to get out of James’ shadow and become the main man elsewhere.

But, according to Fox’s Chris Broussard, Irving was angered after he thought James wanted him gone to make space for Eric Bledsoe and Paul George in this summer’s draft.

“The final straw as to why he wanted out of Cleveland, or wants out of Cleveland, I’m told the Cavaliers had a deal done heading into the draft. This was reported by Cleveland Scene magazine, no one really picked it up, but I’ve talked to a few people who said it was true,” Broussard said.

This deal, according to Broussard, would have seen Irving move to Phoenix, with Phoenix sending Bledsoe back to Cleveland as well as the number four pick. Cavaliers would, then, send the number four pick to Indiana for George.

“Now, Kyrie Irving finds out about the deal,” Broussard said. “Whether it was from David Griffin telling him after he left or however he found out. But he found out about the deal. And he assumed, he rightly assumed, that there’s no way the Cavaliers are doing this unless LeBron gives consent. That’s why he got mad with LeBron. He thought LeBron was in on it.

“LeBron’s take was more, ‘Look, I’m not trying to trade Kyrie Irving. He’s great. But that’s a heck of a deal—Eric Bledsoe and Paul George. So if you do it, hey, that’s a great deal.’ But Kyrie took it as LeBron wanted him out of there. A few days or a week later that’s when Kyrie made his trade request.”

So could this all be a misunderstanding? Regardless, it seems that the situation has gone too far to be resolved. The problem for Cleveland, however, is that there are some suggestions that James will definitely not be playing for the Cavs by next summer.

Veteran NBA reporter Chris Sheridan claimed last week that James was “100 percent leaving” the Cavs at the end of this season. The relationship with the Cleveland owners, Sheridan said, is beyond repair.

i'd STILL take the celtics this year.

This Cavs team cannot take an entire season of the indecision mixed with FREE KY as they try to reach the finals. I'm thinking fourth seed and second round exit if we make it that far.

A storybook ending to this would be nice but that's not going to happen.

And no version of Luol Deng that was a star.

as a bargaining chip to get him to stay.. He might not have been in on it from the beginning.. Who knows..
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but ultimately this is about 2018. about cats trying to keep Bron there so much they'd do anything to make it happen.

I never, ever believed the stories about "Kyrie wanting his own team" or whatever the fuck. If LeBron left in '18, that would be happening anyway.

The only thing that is supremely wack about this situation is that no one involved will be forthright about anything. So there's nothing but speculation.

I predict people who pre-burned the Kyrie jerseys will be changing their tune this season.

so, all this shit is suspect until something happens.