In the latest KJG roundtable, we touched on the Cleveland Cavaliers’ Summer League a bit, along with Kevin Love’s Team USA decision, and looked a bit toward the 2019-20 season.
The Cleveland Cavaliers are still a ways away from the 2019-20 season and are still amid the offseason.
A few weeks ago following the 2019 NBA Draft (which was on June 20), Cleveland was involved in NBA Summer League play, both in Salt Lake City and in the Las Vegas Summer Leagues, and the overall product for them wasn’t exactly fantastic by any stretch of the imagination, as we’ve touched on here at KJG.
We hit on that in this latest KJG roundtable, with it involving both Darius Garland and Kevin Porter Jr. not being participants in any of the Cavs’ Summer League games due to reported injuries, and I would imagine both would’ve had opportunities to light it up and perhaps get in some better rhythm going against competition outside of their own team.
That being said, I fully understand why the Cavaliers didn’t play those two in Summer League.
Along with that focus, we touched on whether or not the KJG contributors were fans of Kevin Love reportedly not playing with Team USA in the 2019 FIBA World Cup, which is set to be in China mostly in September.
Additionally, I asked the KJG team about whether or not the Cleveland Cavaliers should pick up their team option for Ante Zizic for the 2020-21 season, which is set to be for a bit under $3.9 million (per Spotrac).
Cleveland will be able to do so “sometime in October,” according to Cleveland.com’s Chris Fedor, and the deadline for picking up that Zizic fourth-year team option will be October 31, for the record, per team option details from last year provided by Hoops Rumors’ Luke Adams (and those again will be the same criteria for Zizic’s fourth-year rookie scale team option, by the way).
From there, we discussed whether or not the Cavs should sign Cedi Osman to a contract extension before the start of next season (which could potentially be for four years and $49.0 million, per Forbes‘ Evan Dammarell) and not allow him to potentially hit restricted free agency next offsesason, and then talked about the ideal starting five each contributor would like to see from Cleveland at the season’s outset.
So, on to question number one.