{"id":571007,"date":"2026-01-30T16:13:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T16:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/571007\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T16:13:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T16:13:12","slug":"cavs-lakers-have-discussed-trade-involving-deandre-hunter-rui-hachimura-and-dalton-knecht","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/571007\/","title":{"rendered":"Cavs, Lakers have discussed trade involving De&#8217;Andre Hunter, Rui Hachimura and Dalton Knecht"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Fedor: We all know the\u00a0complications for the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/cleveland-cavaliers\/5\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Cavs;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Cavs<\/a> when it comes\u00a0to trades. They can&#8217;t aggregate\u00a0salaries.\u00a0They only have really one first-round draft pick that they can\u00a0trade. They have to be like right on\u00a0the number in terms of salary matching\u00a0purposes. But <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bBgUnfKm4Bg&amp;t=836s\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:my\u00a0sources\u00a0tell me that\u00a0the Cavs and the Lakers have\u00a0discussed\u00a0a\u00a0general framework surrounding De&#039;Andre Hunter, Rui Hachimura and Dalton Knecht and then bringing in a third\u00a0team.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">my\u00a0sources\u00a0tell me that\u00a0the Cavs and the Lakers have\u00a0discussed\u00a0a\u00a0general framework surrounding De&#8217;Andre Hunter, Rui Hachimura and Dalton Knecht and then bringing in a third\u00a0team.<\/a> Now look, there are there are\u00a0third teams that could be helpful. Brooklyn has the lowest salary number\u00a0of any team in the NBA. They might be a\u00a0destination that is willing to take some\u00a0salary. Um, the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/utah-jazz\/26\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Utah Jazz;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Utah Jazz<\/a>, they are 29th\u00a0in salary in the NBA. They might be a\u00a0destination that&#8217;s willing to take some\u00a0salary back. By the way, the team that\u00a0the Cavs have traded with most\u00a0frequently in the Koby Altman era is\u00a0Utah, and one of his best friends is\u00a0Justin Zanik, an\u00a0executive\u00a0for the Utah\u00a0Jazz.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bBgUnfKm4Bg&amp;t=836s\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:YouTube;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chris Fedor: We all know the\u00a0complications for the Cavs when it comes\u00a0to trades. They can&#8217;t aggregate\u00a0salaries.\u00a0They only have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":571008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,670,136,12212,1250,300,6,1012,2149,427],"class_list":["post-571007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-basketball","tag-brooklyn","tag-cavs","tag-chris-fedor","tag-dalton-knecht","tag-lakers","tag-nba","tag-rui-hachimura","tag-the-cavs","tag-utah-jazz"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115984938170508405","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571007","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=571007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}