Crystal Ball: Predicting Cavs’ rotation by the end of the season

The rotation for the Cleveland Cavaliers has been quite the hodgepodge of combinations to start the season. Darius Garland, Jarrett Allen, Dean Wade and Kevin Love have all missed multiple games already, and that has forced head coach J.B. Bickerstaff to reconfigure the rotations on the fly.

He did so in a major way a few games ago, changing up the starting lineup to move Caris LeVert to the bench and start Lamar Stevens. Then Dean Wade returned from injury and was +17 in 18 minutes off the bench in an 18-point win. The Cavs have only had their top-7 players intact for four games this season.

The Cleveland Cavaliers are figuring out their identity. Looking into the Crystal Ball, what will the rotation look like by the end of the Cavs’ season?

That makes it something of a fool’s errand to confidently declare what the rotation will look like in four months for the stretch run of the season. A key player could suffer a season-ending injury, or another could find himself falling out of the rotation. Yet with Ricky Rubio due to come back sometime during the season, at the very least the rotation will look different than now.

Let’s try to peer into the crystal ball to see what things will look like at the end of the year. Who will be starting, who will be sitting, and how will the minutes be spread around? Let’s break it down.