{"id":560688,"date":"2026-01-25T22:35:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T22:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/560688\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T22:35:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T22:35:12","slug":"teams-have-been-trying-to-trade-for-important-cavs-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/560688\/","title":{"rendered":"Teams have been trying to trade for important Cavs forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The <a href=\"http:\/\/fearthesword.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a> have been playing better basketball of late, but there\u2019s reason to believe they could make a move before the Feb. 5 trade deadline. One of the players that teams have reportedly been trying to target recently is versatile defensive forward Dean Wade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/cavs\/2026\/01\/the-ultimate-glue-guy-unheralded-dean-wade-becoming-cavs-starting-lineup-linchpin.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Fedor of cleveland.com<\/a>, \u201cno fewer than 10 teams have reached out and expressed interest\u201d in Wade. Up until this point, the Cavs have rejected those offers. We\u2019ll see if that continues for the next week and a half.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Wade is an attractive asset for contenders. He\u2019s an incredible defender who can guard numerous positions. The Cavs have used him as both the primary defender on guards like Devin Booker and as a small-ball center when the team needs to space the floor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Aside from his value on the court, Wade\u2019s expiring $6.6 million contract fits into a lot of teams\u2019 cap sheets. And if a team were to trade for Wade, they would have his Bird Rights, which means that they could go over the salary cap to sign him. A team trading for and signing Wade to a larger contract this offseason could also create an additional salary slot that they could trade in the future, which is incredibly beneficial if you\u2019re a team that\u2019s already over the salary cap.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Trading Wade wouldn\u2019t make sense for the Cavs right now. They don\u2019t have any other bigs that can provide what he does, even if the Cavs don\u2019t think they\u2019ll be able to sign him this upcoming 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 make at the fast-approaching trade deadline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cleveland Cavaliers have been playing better basketball of late, but there\u2019s reason to believe they could make&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":560689,"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-560688","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\/115958129170371553","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560688","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=560688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}