{"id":839276,"date":"2026-09-19T22:30:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T22:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/839276\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T22:30:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T22:30:15","slug":"cavs-rumors-how-cleveland-reaffirmed-its-commitment-to-evan-mobley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/839276\/","title":{"rendered":"Cavs rumors: How Cleveland reaffirmed its commitment to Evan Mobley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Cleveland <a href=\"https:\/\/cavsnation.com\/rumors\/nba-rumors-nuggets-insider-cavs-won-peyton-watson-trade-sweepstakes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cavs added forward Peyton Watson to their frontcourt<\/a>, giving starting forward Evan Mobley a defensive wing in hopes of completing a championship roster.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cavsnation.com\/news\/cavs-news-peyton-watson-draws-eye-opening-comparison-og-anunoby\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Watson\u2019s comparison to the New York Knicks\u2019 OG Anunoby<\/a> excites Cavs fans as the missing piece for a potential title run in 2027, building on their 4-0 sweep in last season\u2019s Eastern Conference Finals.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For one NBA insider, the Cavs had two opportunities to trade for a perennial All-Star in Giannis Antetokounmpo and Jaylen Brown, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kuiG8FK_pM4&amp;t=70s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">chose to stick<\/a> with Mobley instead, according to ESPN\u2019s Brian Windhorst.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey had the option to trade Evan Mobley \u2014 they could have offered him for Jaylen Brown, they could have offered him for Giannis, and I think there\u2019s a decent chance that they could have gotten either of them,\u201d Windhorst said. \u201cThey didn\u2019t. Their belief in Evan Mobley is enormous. And they invested hugely in Peyton Watson. They are betting that Peyton Watson will be their missing link in their starting lineup; that two-way wing that will elevate them.<\/p>\n<p>You may also likeArticle continues below<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is something that\u2019s up for debate, but they could have pulled the steal here. Not everybody believes that, but they could have pulled the steal. Koby Altman\u2019s belief in Evan Mobley, and saying all-in isn\u2019t accurate, but going all in on Peyton Watson, are two organizational decisions that I believe will largely determine what these three years are going to be,\u201d Windhorst concluded.<\/p>\n<p>To complete their foreseeable future, the Cavs inked James Harden to a three-year, $96.5 million extension. Cavs\u2019 Evan Mobley averaged 18.2 points, 9.0 rebounds, and 1.7 blocks per game in 2026-27.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cleveland Cavs added forward Peyton Watson to their frontcourt, giving starting forward Evan Mobley a defensive wing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":742813,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3772],"tags":[7,306,305,193,3846,576,6,6050],"class_list":["post-839276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-basketball","tag-cavaliers","tag-cleveland","tag-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-clevelandcavaliers","tag-evan-mobley","tag-nba","tag-nba-rumors"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/117300076452642825","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839276","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=839276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/742813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=839276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=839276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=839276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}