WOJ: Love kills deal to Cavs that would have involved #1 pick (merged)

[colincb]

I'd still do the deal.  I suspect he would change his mind if he and Kyrie like playing under Platt and suddenly are making a run for top 3 team in the East.

Not a chance he'd re-sign. Losing culture, bad owner, selfish players. Deng is a class act and he couldn't turn that locker room around. They had to go overseas to get a coach, Gilbert's letter to LBJ, Picking Waiters, picking Bennett, firing Brown twice, etc., etc.

The quintessence of a clusterfest and everyone in the NBA knows it.

Dan Gilbert is not a bad owner at all.  He has a lot of money, isn't afraid to spend it, and wants to win.  He is probably a bit too involved in the basketball side of things, but he will learn and tone it down a bit.  It is also silly to say the Cavs have a losing culture.  I mean they are only 5 years removed from consistent 60 win seasons.  I mean did Boston and Chicago have losing cultures because they had some lean seasons when their superstars left the team.  Now maybe they have losing seasons because they have some selfish players that won't change or maybe they just need a leader (who also happens to be a great player) to get them where they need to be.  Some young guys grow up and become what their talent should be (like Zach Randolph) and sometimes they don't.

If you put Kevin Love on the team from last year, I think they are solid mid-level playoff team next season, with the chance to make some noise in the playoffs. 

Also, Cleveland is a very nice city.  No pollution, no traffic, enough to do, and the lake is awesome in the summer.

Love seems to share my opinion. The following is definitely unfair, but it's pretty funny:

www.youtube.com/embed/ysmLA5TqbIY?feature=player_embedded"

[D.o.s.]

I'd still do the deal.  I suspect he would change his mind if he and Kyrie like playing under Platt and suddenly are making a run for top 3 team in the East.

Not a chance he'd re-sign. Losing culture, bad owner, selfish players. Deng is a class act and he couldn't turn that locker room around. They had to go overseas to get a coach, Gilbert's letter to LBJ, Picking Waiters, picking Bennett, firing Brown twice, etc., etc.

The quintessence of a clusterfest and everyone in the NBA knows it.

Dan Gilbert is not a bad owner at all.  He has a lot of money, isn't afraid to spend it, and wants to win.  He is probably a bit too involved in the basketball side of things, but he will learn and tone it down a bit.

I agree. Dan Gilbert is a great owner, and not a prime example of what a bad ownership group can do to continually cripple a franchise. Not At All. Definitely Not.

He does tinker too much, but some of that may just be not finding the right people.  I am curious to see how this current group he has works out.  I like Griffin and Blatt seems like a good hire.  Blatt also brought in Lue (who almost got the head coach job) as associate head coach and Gilbert made Lue the highest paid assistant in NBA history.

The problem is that their front office sucks, and it took them forever to fire an obviously incompetent GM.

[GreenWarrior]

not sure if anyone posted this but I heard on Felger & Maz that quickly after this deal got shot down, Cleveland rushed to get Exum on the phone to see if he would come work out for them. they said they were planning to send their private jet to get him.
 
if this is true i'm taking it as a bad sign as far as getting either their 1st or Love. wouldn't it mean another team jumped in there for the #1 pick? exum was projected around 4 - 5.

[Fafnir]

not sure if anyone posted this but I heard on Felger & Maz that quickly after this deal got shot down, Cleveland rushed to get Exum on the phone to see if he would come work out for them. they said they were planning to send their private jet to get him.
 
if this is true i'm taking it as a bad sign as far as getting either their 1st or Love. wouldn't it mean another team jumped in there for the #1 pick? exum was projected around 4 - 5.

I assume it means they're looking at taking Orlando or Utah's offer to trade down.

[colincb]

Maybe PHI.  They want Wiggins and Exum's likely to be BPA at 3.

[TwinTower14]

not sure if anyone posted this but I heard on Felger & Maz that quickly after this deal got shot down, Cleveland rushed to get Exum on the phone to see if he would come work out for them. they said they were planning to send their private jet to get him.
 
if this is true i'm taking it as a bad sign as far as getting either their 1st or Love. wouldn't it mean another team jumped in there for the #1 pick? exum was projected around 4 - 5.

I assume it means they're looking at taking Orlando or Utah's offer to trade down.

Marc Spears put this on twitter about an hour ago....

[GreenWarrior]

not sure if anyone posted this but I heard on Felger & Maz that quickly after this deal got shot down, Cleveland rushed to get Exum on the phone to see if he would come work out for them. they said they were planning to send their private jet to get him.
 
if this is true i'm taking it as a bad sign as far as getting either their 1st or Love. wouldn't it mean another team jumped in there for the #1 pick? exum was projected around 4 - 5.

I assume it means they're looking at taking Orlando or Utah's offer to trade down.

yeah that's what i'm thimking. they also said it was unconfirmed weather exum denied going to Cleveland.