Cavs: Would a team of Cavaliers alumni win the title?

The Cavs will not stay the same. No NBA team maintains the same roster of talent year-over-year. There have certainly been cores that have stayed together, specifically wildly successful ones that perenially competed for titles. Yet those cores, on teams like the San Antonio Spurs of the 2000s or the Los Angeles Lakers of the 1980s, rotated through multiple players on the fringes of their rotation.

Cleveland did compete for multiple titles, going to the NBA Finals in four straight seasons, but that roster has almost completely dispersed around the league or into retirement. Only Kevin Love remains from the championship team, and just Cedi Osman joins him as players who went to the NBA Finals.

The Cavs have former players spread all across the league. How good would a team of alumni be?

That has resulted in a number of former Cavs spread across the league on a number of teams, around two dozen players suiting up to play as competitors of the Cavaliers. That includes the league’s most well-known player, LeBron James, but also a number of players at every level from star to end-of-bench scrub.

How good would a team of these Cavs “alumni” be? If you gathered them all together and formed one team, would that group of players be successful? Could they win the title? Let’s look at who could be on such a team, and then compare them to the rest of the league. For those wondering, our Cavs Alumni squad will of course be coached by Ty Lue, now head coach of the LA Clippers.