Cleveland Cavaliers: Masterlist Of Targeted Players (To Be Updated)

Who are the players that the Cleveland Cavaliers are trying to acquire?

The Cleveland Cavaliers have had a lot of reported targets and, even on this site, a lot of proposed trade scenarios that aren’t official reports but speculative pieces on players that could improve the team.

With that being said, there needs to be a place where all of the Cleveland Cavaliers reported targets can be viewed. As of now, those players are free agents Mario Chalmers and Jarrett Jack, Chicago Bulls point guard Rajon Rondo and Phoenix Suns swingman P.J. Tucker. Players like Norris Cole, who has been linked to the Cavs, likely isn’t a real target because he’s been healthy at various points and the Cavs still haven’t brought him in.

A player like Carmelo Anthony isn’t a player that needs to be reported as an official target of the Cavs. It’s already well-documented that LeBron James would like to play with his best friends in the NBA (Chris Paul, Dwyane Wade and Anthony) one day, though the logistics make that desire a hard one to fulfill for another couple of years. If Anthony is available, it gives James the opportunity to play with another one of the trio as James has already played beside Wade for four seasons with the Miami Heat. It also gets Anthony out of his bubble in New York so that James can get Anthony, Wade and Paul to synchronize their future free agency periods and eventually sign with a team that will take all of them.

That’s, again, unlikely. Yet, with James anything is possible.