{"id":562892,"date":"2026-01-26T23:40:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T23:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/562892\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T23:40:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T23:40:13","slug":"cavs-reportedly-arent-planning-on-a-drastic-shake-up-at-nba-trade-deadline-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/562892\/","title":{"rendered":"Cavs reportedly aren\u2019t planning on a \u2018drastic shake-up\u2019 at NBA trade deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a> didn\u2019t have the start to the season many expected, but they\u2019re starting to head in the right direction. Going into Monday\u2019s game against the Orlando Magic<\/a>, the Cavs have won three straight, six of their last eight, and 10 of their last 14. This has landed them just two games out of the second spot in the Eastern Conference.<\/p>\n

Despite being 47 games into the season, the Cavs still haven\u2019t gotten a chance to see how this group looks when fully healthy. Max Strus (foot) has yet to play, and Darius Garland (toe) has admitted to not being 100% so far this season, and there\u2019s no guarantee that he will be. Both injuries can make it difficult to evaluate what this team needs.<\/p>\n

According to Chris Fedor of cleveland.com<\/a>, the Cavs aren\u2019t planning on having a \u201cdrastic shake-up\u201d at the deadline. Right now, this includes hanging on to Dean Wade and De\u2019Andre Hunter. Both are players the Cavs have received offers for.<\/p>\n

That doesn\u2019t mean that the Cavs couldn\u2019t make a minor move. Fedor pointed to Lonzo Ball as the player \u201cmost likely to depart<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ball does have value as an expiring contract. He is making $10 million this season and has a team option for next year. That could make him an attractive piece for a team looking to shed money going into next season.<\/p>\n

The issue from the Cavs\u2019 perspective is that they can\u2019t take back anyone making more than $10 million in any deal for Ball, and they can\u2019t aggregate contracts. This limits who they could possibly trade Ball for.<\/p>\n

Fedor mentioned<\/a> Jose Alvarado and Naji Marshall as players that the Cavs could target. The issue if you\u2019re trying to trade for Marshall is that the Dallas Mavericks<\/a> are currently over the first apron. Since Ball makes more than Marshall, the deal wouldn\u2019t be legal from Dallas\u2019s perspective unless a third team were to be involved.<\/p>\n

The Cavs\u2019 current cap sheet, combined with the injuries they\u2019ve had to deal with this season, makes it difficult to predict what exactly the Cavs will do. But we\u2019ll find out soon enough.<\/p>\n

The NBA trade deadline is Feb. 5 at 3 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cleveland Cavaliers didn\u2019t have the start to the season many expected, but they\u2019re starting to head in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":562893,"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-562892","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\/115964046505456128","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562892","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=562892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}