{"id":92600,"date":"2025-06-12T01:15:30","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T01:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/92600\/"},"modified":"2025-06-12T01:15:30","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T01:15:30","slug":"report-cavs-darius-garland-obviously-not-getting-traded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/92600\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Cavs\u2019 Darius Garland \u2018obviously\u2019 not getting traded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"cBcku3\">ESPN\u2019s Brian Windhorst shut down any notion of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fearthesword.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a> trying to trade Darius Garland this summer. He explains that just because they\u2019ll be listening to offers does not mean the Cavs are actively shopping Garland. <\/p>\n<p id=\"ApDN05\">\u201cObviously Darius Garland is not getting traded,\u201d Windhorst said on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ESPNCleveland\" rel=\"nofollow\">ESPN Cleveland<\/a>. \u201cHere\u2019s the nuance, the Cavs are going to pick up the phone&#8230; there\u2019s a nuance between we are taking phone calls and are looking to make trades.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"3PJayN\">Garland is coming off the best season of his career. Even if his per-game stats don\u2019t show it. The Cavaliers roared to 64 wins and a historic offensive rating behind Garland\u2019s mastery at point guard. It\u2019s no coincidence that all crumbled when he suffered a demobilizing toe injury. <\/p>\n<p id=\"f5J8Ag\">\u201cIf anything, the fact that Garland\u2019s injury was so severe&#8230; that is an indication of how limited he was in that series,\u201d said Windhorst. \u201cIf anything, you\u2019re the Cavs and you\u2019re saying&#8230; let\u2019s maybe try to see what happens when our All-Stars are not wounded.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"MvAk2r\">This train of thought makes sense. The Cavs didn\u2019t stroll into a second round series at full strength and get knocked on their butts. They limped against a title-contending squad that beat them fair and square. There\u2019s enough reason to think a healthy Cavaliers could have won the series \u2014 or at the very least, been much more competitive. <\/p>\n<p id=\"QXoFWU\">For this reason, the impulse to trade everyone feels like a knee-jerk overreaction. Moving Garland would be especially risky. The Cavs will be competing for a title next season if the core is healthy. They might not get that opportunity if they swing on the wrong trade. <\/p>\n<p id=\"c6EmQQ\">Maybe we can finally stop talking about this now? Probably not. It\u2019s going to be a long summer. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ESPN\u2019s Brian Windhorst shut down any notion of the Cleveland Cavaliers trying to trade Darius Garland this summer.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3772],"tags":[7,306,136,13608,16782,305,193,3846,788,145,28,789,4572,6,1037,1088,20230,381,146,64,6978],"class_list":{"0":"post-92600","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","11":"tag-cavs-rumors","12":"tag-cavs-trade-rumors","13":"tag-cleveland","14":"tag-cleveland-cavaliers","15":"tag-clevelandcavaliers","16":"tag-darius","17":"tag-fear","18":"tag-front-page","19":"tag-garland","20":"tag-getting","21":"tag-nba","22":"tag-nba-news-basketball","23":"tag-not","24":"tag-obviously","25":"tag-report","26":"tag-sword","27":"tag-the","28":"tag-traded"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114667751065375227","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92600","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=92600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}