{"id":565603,"date":"2026-01-28T05:22:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T05:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/565603\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T05:22:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T05:22:13","slug":"cavs-waive-former-arkon-standout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/565603\/","title":{"rendered":"Cavs waive former Arkon standout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">They are expected to be without <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fearthesword.com\/cavs-injury-report\/43607\/cavs-evan-mobley-nba-injury-report-cleveland-cavaliers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Evan Mobley (calf) for the next one to three weeks<\/a> and are still without the services of Darius Garland (toe) and Max Strus (foot). Additionally, standout two-way player Nae\u2019Qwan Tomlin only has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spotrac.com\/nba\/contracts\/two-way\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">eight more games<\/a> he can be active with the Cavs unless they convert his contract to a standard deal. For reference, the Cavs have seven games before the All-Star break.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">This all creates a crunch where the Cavs could need more available bodies that they trust to provide NBA minutes as they await the Feb. 5.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">With that in mind, it isn\u2019t surprising that the Cavs are reportedly waiving two-way player Chris Livingston.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Livingston hasn\u2019t provided many meaningful minutes for the Cavs this season despite the team\u2019s injuries. The Akron native had just 17 minutes of playing time spread across three games with the team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The majority of Livingston\u2019s time has been spent with the Cavs\u2019 G League affiliate, the Cleveland Charge. Livingston has appeared in 16 games with the Charge and averaged 16.1 points, 5.2 rebounds, and 1.7 assists on .437\/.258\/.844 shooting splits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The release of Livingston opens up one of the team\u2019s three two-way spots. Additionally, it stands to reason that another one of those two-way spots will be made available when the team presumably converts Tomlin\u2019s current contract to a standard NBA one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Luke Travers occupies the Cavs\u2019 other two-way spot. He\u2019s appeared in just 12 games this season for the Cavs this season. Travers is averaging 18.1 points, nine rebounds, and 5.1 assists on .430\/.284\/.636 shooting splits in 14 G-League appearances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">We\u2019ll see what direction the Cavs go with those openings. It\u2019s worth mentioning that Killian Hayes \u2014 who is playing well \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2023\/08\/hoops-rumors-glossary-two-way-contract.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">isn\u2019t eligible for a two-way deal<\/a> due to his previous service time. Darius Brown and Tristan Enaruna are potential internal candidates for a deal. The team can also look outside the organization for a possible two-way player.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They are expected to be without Evan Mobley (calf) for the next one to three weeks and are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":565604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[7,147,32186],"class_list":{"0":"post-565603","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-cavs-news","10":"tag-cleveland-charge"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115971053740338960","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565603","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=565603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}