{"id":574844,"date":"2026-02-01T09:43:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T09:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/574844\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T09:43:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T09:43:16","slug":"cavs-waive-former-second-round-pick-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/574844\/","title":{"rendered":"Cavs waive former second-round pick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">That trend continued as <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/OlgunUluc\/status\/2017822972376142200\" rel=\"nofollow\">ESPN\u2019s Olgun Uluc<\/a> reported late Saturday evening that the team is also waiving former second-round pick Luke Travers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Cavs selected Travers with the 56th pick in the 2022 draft. He spent the next two seasons playing in Australia\u2019s NBL before signing a two-way deal with Cleveland in August 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Travers spent the majority of the last two seasons playing with the Cleveland Charge, the Cavs\u2019 G League affiliate. This season, Travers averaged 18.1 points, nine rebounds, and 5.1 assists on .430\/.284\/.636 shooting splits with the Charge in 14 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Travers has struggled to make the transition to the NBA game. He\u2019s a good team defender and rebounder, but hasn\u2019t found his role on the offensive side. Travers doesn\u2019t have the handle or athleticism to continually get to the basket, so he needed to develop as an outside shooter. So far, that hasn\u2019t happened. Travers shot just 28.4% from three this season with the Charge and shot 26.2% the year before.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The offensive limitations kept him from getting meaningful minutes with the Cavs. He played just 24 games and 191 minutes in two seasons combined with the Cavaliers. Most of which were in garbage time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">With the move, the Cavaliers currently have one open two-way spot with Enaruna and Nae\u2019Qwan Tomlin currently occupying the other two. Tomlin will likely not be in that role for long. He\u2019s eligible for just six more games with the Cavaliers under his current contract, which will presumably be converted to a standard deal after the All-Star break.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"That trend continued as ESPN\u2019s Olgun Uluc reported late Saturday evening that the team is also waiving former&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3772],"tags":[7,306,147,305,193,32186,3846,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-574844","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-news","11":"tag-cleveland","12":"tag-cleveland-cavaliers","13":"tag-cleveland-charge","14":"tag-clevelandcavaliers","15":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115994729406504818","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574844","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=574844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}