Cavs: Ranking the potential trade returns for 2019-20 expiring contracts

#5: The overpriced

Knight, as we’ve hit on already a bunch here at KJG, is not the cheapest reserve point guard option for the Cavs, and other teams that may want his services. He missed the entire 2017-18 due to ACL surgery, and it’s had to have been a long way back from that for him.

This season, as we’ve touched on as well, Knight has not been able to show much, as he’s only played in 12 games with the Rockets, and got just 9.8 minutes per outing, so what he’ll be able to show over the rest of this season and perhaps next season is very uncertain.

As our own Robbie DiPaola detailed, though, Knight has shown he can produce as a backcourt scorer in his career when healthy, and with Cleveland rebuilding, he should get some opportunities to show what he can do with more usage than in Houston. With his health being a question mark and his price for next year, though, I wouldn’t expect much here, either.

Maybe Cleveland can throw Knight in a three-team trade with Dellavedova or somebody else expiring and a future second-round pick in exchange for maybe a bad contract from a different team that expires after 2020-21, and if the Cavs are fortunate, two future second-round picks. For a team that isn’t going to be getting top-prize free agents, those sort of future assets do matter.

As the store clerk would say: NEXT!