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Cleveland Cavaliers: Ranking the team’s top 10 current players

By Nathan Beighle

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CLEVELAND, OH – DECEMBER 12: JR Smith #5 and LeBron James #23 of the Cleveland Cavaliers give high fives during the game against the Atlanta Hawks on December 12, 2017 at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and/or using this Photograph, user is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. Mandatory Copyright Notice: Copyright 2017 NBAE (Photo by David Liam Kyle/NBAE via Getty Images)
CLEVELAND, OH – DECEMBER 12: JR Smith #5 and LeBron James #23 of the Cleveland Cavaliers give high fives during the game against the Atlanta Hawks on December 12, 2017 at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and/or using this Photograph, user is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. Mandatory Copyright Notice: Copyright 2017 NBAE (Photo by David Liam Kyle/NBAE via Getty Images) /

The Cleveland Cavaliers is one of the best teams in the entire NBA, and here’s how we rank this top team’s top ten players.

With a quarter of the season already behind us, it is time to look at how well the rotational players for the Cleveland Cavaliers have performed. The Cavaliers are 21-8 after starting the season a dreadful 5-7.

Not only have the Cavaliers excelled over the last few weeks, but they managed to do it without key rotational players. Players like Iman Shumpert and Derrick Rose, while they are certainly in the top 10 skill-wise, have yet to log over 14 games and haven’t even exceeded 20 games combined. Staying on the court certainly contributes to value, and that’s why Rose and Shumpert were left off our top 10 listing.

The other Cavs not to make the list were Cedi Osman, who has played surprisingly well and with an extra spark of energy off the bench, and Jose Calderon, who has perfectly filled the starting point guard role in Isaiah Thomas’ and Derrick Rose’s absence. The last Cavs to not crack the top 10 is offseason addition Ante Zizic, who averages less than 4 minutes per game and has seen time in less than half of the Cavs games.

That said, let’s start our break down of the top 10 Cavaliers’ players.