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Warriors vs. Cavaliers (Nov 5, 2023) Live Score - ESPN

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Knicks vs. Cavaliers (Oct 31, 2023) Live Score - ESPN

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Pacers vs. Cavaliers (Oct 28, 2023) Live Score - ESPN

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Thunder vs. Cavaliers (Oct 27, 2023) Live Score - ESPN

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Cavaliers vs. Nets (Oct 25, 2023) Live Score - ESPN

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Cavaliers vs. Pacers (Oct 20, 2023) Live Score - ESPN

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Magic vs. Cavaliers (Oct 12, 2023) Live Score - ESPN

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ESPN Top 50 - 4 Cavs make an appearance

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Cavaliers vs. Hawks (Oct 10, 2023) Live Score - ESPN

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Why did the Cavs bring back Tristan Thompson? Wine and Gold Talk Podcast

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RUMOR: Cavs interested in acquiring intriguing restricted free agent

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Cavs’ Dean Wade opens up about late-season struggles, impact of Kevin Love buyout: Wine and Gold Talk

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Post-offseason NBA Power Rankings

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The Cleveland Cavaliers, and their fans, need to be patient with Emoni Bates

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Nets, Cavs to play regular-season game in Paris

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The Cleveland Cavaliers are 2023 Summer League Champs!

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2023 Summer League Championship Game - Cavs vs. Rocks

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2023 Summer League Semi Finals - Cavs vs Nets

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Cavs Close Out Bulls, Advance to Summer League Semis

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First Look At Max Strus With The Cavaliers

  • I would disagree with that. It's not really bizarre given leagues around the world do this to great success. Also I don't think the NBA is so single minded that they only worked on this in season tournament and nothing else to improve the game. I'm also not sure that very much time even needed to be spent on this idea given how it's already in place in other leagues and at the top level it's not very complex.

    At the end of the day it was a pretty minor change to the existing infrastructure with respect to how much improvement it could impose. I see it as no negative with possible positive.

  • So I don't see teams purposely losing, since it's not like they play more games unless they play in the final. At which point the different between 100k then 200k and 500k is not nothing. Even if some players or teams could care less about the tournament, I can't see them treating it less than a regular season game at the very least.

    On your second point, yeah that's incredibly stupid. If the guys play in the games they should get paid for playing in the games. You're playing in an NBA game against NBA teams in an NBA tournament with payouts to players based on how far you go.

  • Why is everyone so actively negative about this? I get not caring at all, but there's clearly more than that. If you don't like this tournament...just pretend they're regular season games and nothing changes. If you already don't watch regular season games... keep not watching regular season games and nothing changes.

  • 500k each for the winners all the way down to 50k for the 8th place team will no doubt bring out some good competition. That's some pretty nice dough even for the max contract guys. Who doesn't want an extra 50k of pocket change? Especially going forward when the 5th place team sees other guys getting hundreds of thousands more than them, that'll no doubt bring out the competitive spirit in a lot of guys.

    East Group B is looking to be a bloodbath, same with West Group A.

    I wonder if scheduling will cause any weird issues like playing a team 5 times or an intraconference team only twice. I suppose you could have games later in the season against team A or team B depending on who of your group went on to the knockout stage.

  • Maybe you can't with Max contracts due to the max cap % you can pay out and then the annual raise restrictions and all that, but you always could with sub max contracts. You can also just split up the contract evenly, like Jarrett Allen's deal. He gets 100 mil for 5 years and every year he gets 20 mil. Which is in practice a regressive contract where his % cap hit decreases year over year.

    What you said is interesting in that it doesn't seem to happen that often, where you could butt up against the cap one year, get relief for future years with a regressive contract. Maybe it's just the belief in kicking the can down the road and counting on cap increases while maximizing current rosters.

  • I personally love this. People were so negative about the idea of an in season tourney... but what's the worst that could happen? The worst is that nothing changes and this tourney is irrelevant. The best case scenario is we get an awesome in season tournament and get a small preview of the post season.

  • I'm with you. it's a lateral move in my opinion and you'd be giving up picks and another player to move your timeline up 6 years. on the other hand, moving some contracts and sending all the picks to team up the Js and Dame would be terrifying for the east. and that seems a lot better than Herro, UDFA filler and 2 firsts. why would Portland send a super star away for a sub all star package?

  • I'm definitely concerned that our biggest weakness is SF and we traded 2 rotation SF's for what appears to be a shooting guard (who is probably 3rd on the depth chart behind Donovan and Caris, unless he gets traded). Can Strus play the 3? And does he play defense? I definitely don't know much about him, so I'd love to have any incorrect assumptions pointed out.