{"id":565864,"date":"2026-01-28T08:21:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T08:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/565864\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T08:21:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T08:21:31","slug":"cleveland-cavaliers-waive-2-way-player-akron-native-chris-livingston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/565864\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleveland Cavaliers waive 2-way player, Akron native Chris Livingston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconjournal.com\/sports\/cavs\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Cleveland Cavaliers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a> are waiving <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/chris-livingston-loved-lebron-james-110520912.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:two-way player Chris Livingston;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">two-way player Chris Livingston<\/a>, according to multiple reports. A league source confirmed the move to the Akron Beacon Journal.<\/p>\n<p>Livingston, an Akron native, had recently suffered a hand injury that will reportedly keep him sidelined for about a month, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/cavs\/2026\/01\/cavs-waiving-two-way-player.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:according to Cleveland.com;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">according to Cleveland.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Cleveland Cavaliers forward Chris Livingston reaches for a rebound against the Toronto Raptors on Nov. 24, 2025, in Toronto, Ontario.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/cc107f38d54f3c80b65cf5ff6b6a4607.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Cleveland Cavaliers forward Chris Livingston reaches for a rebound against the Toronto Raptors on Nov. 24, 2025, in Toronto, Ontario.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old played in just three games for the Cavaliers this season, spending most of his time with the Cleveland Charge of the NBA G League. In those three games for the Cavs, Livingston averaged 3.0 points and 1.0 rebounds per game.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Previous reporting: <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/akrons-chris-livingston-builds-confidence-110440189.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Akron&#039;s Chris Livingston builds confidence with Cavs opportunities;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Akron&#8217;s Chris Livingston builds confidence with Cavs opportunities<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 11 games played for the Charge in the G League, <a href=\"https:\/\/stats.gleague.nba.com\/player\/1641753\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Livingston averaged;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Livingston averaged<\/a> 16.5 points, 5.2 rebounds and 1.6 assists per game. He converted 43.6% of his field goals and 29.8% of his 3-point attempts.<\/p>\n<p>A former Akron Buchtel High School star, Livingston signed his two-way contract with the Cavs in November.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Akron Beacon Journal: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconjournal.com\/story\/sports\/pro\/cavs\/2026\/01\/27\/cleveland-cavs-waive-akron-native-chris-livingston-injury\/88386123007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Cleveland Cavs waive Akron native Chris Livingston;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Cleveland Cavs waive Akron native Chris Livingston<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cleveland Cavaliers are waiving two-way player Chris Livingston, according to multiple reports. A league source confirmed the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":565865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3772],"tags":[7,306,12489,305,193,32186,3846,6,76950],"class_list":{"0":"post-565864","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-chris-livingston","11":"tag-cleveland","12":"tag-cleveland-cavaliers","13":"tag-cleveland-charge","14":"tag-clevelandcavaliers","15":"tag-nba","16":"tag-the-akron-beacon-journal"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115971758391208751","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565864","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=565864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}