{"id":826405,"date":"2026-09-02T15:57:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T15:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/826405\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T15:57:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T15:57:10","slug":"khalifa-diop-undergoes-medical-with-cavaliers-ahead-of-potential-nba-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/826405\/","title":{"rendered":"Khalifa Diop undergoes medical with Cavaliers ahead of potential NBA move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The most significant case is Khalifa Diop, who could be in his final hours as a Baskonia player. The Senegalese center, selected by the <a data-autotag=\"90b53492-af62-4517-8ec8-642f11795510\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/cleveland-cavaliers\/5\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a> with the 39th pick in the 2022 NBA Draft, has traveled to Cleveland with the club\u2019s permission to undergo a medical examination. If he passes the medical, the Cavaliers will decide whether to add him to their roster for the 2026-27 season. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marca.com\/baloncesto\/acb\/2026\/09\/01\/baskonia-queda-cuadro-cancela-amistoso-pierde-diop-rumbo-nba.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Read more on Marca.com\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" target=\"_blank\">The move is not official yet, but Baskonia is already preparing for the possibility of his departure. Diop remains under contract, meaning a move to the NBA would require financial compensation for the Spanish club.<\/a> His departure would leave Paolo Galbiati without one of his key frontcourt players and force Baskonia to accelerate its search for two additional big men following the arrival of Kenneth Faried.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marca.com\/baloncesto\/acb\/2026\/09\/01\/baskonia-queda-cuadro-cancela-amistoso-pierde-diop-rumbo-nba.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Read more on Marca.com\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" target=\"_blank\">Marca.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The most significant case is Khalifa Diop, who could be in his final hours as a Baskonia player.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":826406,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72400,7,6,12,91059,72987,72988,72404,72547,98273,72444,72422,72570,72445,98274,72406,72403],"class_list":["post-826405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba-draft","tag-accessfree","tag-basketball","tag-nba","tag-nba-draft","tag-sourcehoops-hype","tag-sstssportsnbarumors","tag-sstsnnba-rumors","tag-tagbasketball","tag-tagcleveland-cavaliers","tag-tagkenneth-faried","tag-tagnational-sports","tag-tagnba","tag-tagnba-draft","tag-tagoverall-neutral","tag-tagspain","tag-tagsports-news","tag-typestory"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/117202271917055581","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826405","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=826405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/826406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}