{"id":537074,"date":"2026-01-14T23:30:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T23:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/537074\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T23:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T23:30:13","slug":"deandre-hunter-attempts-to-clear-the-air-on-recent-trade-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/537074\/","title":{"rendered":"De\u2019Andre Hunter attempts to clear the air on recent trade rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fearthesword.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a> wing De\u2019Andre Hunter\u2019s name is an easy trade target. The Cavs are over the second apron, their roster needs a shakeup, and Hunter has been struggling. That, combined with Hunter clearing his Instagram of any mention of the Cavs, would lead you to believe that he\u2019s someone who could be on the move.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI haven\u2019t said a word about nothing to nobody,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/cavs\/2026\/01\/why-would-i-want-to-be-traded-cavs-deandre-hunter-addresses-rampant-trade-rumors.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hunter told cleveland.com<\/a>. \u201cNot about wanting to be traded. Not about nothing. When I saw the article, I was just as surprised as you probably were.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Cavs have the most expensive roster in the league and are the only team above the second apron. Given their disappointing first half of the season and Hunter\u2019s struggles, it would make sense to move a player like him to get under the second apron so that they\u2019re in a better position to retool in the offseason.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">We\u2019ll see what moves, if any, the Cavs and their front office make ahead of the Feb. 5 deadline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Hunter is averaging 13.9 points and 4.3 rebounds per game on .425\/.303\/.875 shooting splits in 36 games with the Cavs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cleveland Cavaliers wing De\u2019Andre Hunter\u2019s name is an easy trade target. The Cavs are over the second apron,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3772],"tags":[7,306,13608,16782,305,193,3846,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-537074","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cleveland-cavaliers","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-cavaliers","10":"tag-cavs-rumors","11":"tag-cavs-trade-rumors","12":"tag-cleveland","13":"tag-cleveland-cavaliers","14":"tag-clevelandcavaliers","15":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115896059542534554","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}