“It feels good just to know that we still have a chance to be competitive,” he said, adding: “We’re not tanking and we’re not trying to throw away games to get a draft pick or nothing like that.”Īnd the Cavaliers backed up that talk, too, by agreeing to a four-year, $120.4 million extension with Love that very offseason to keep him around for the long-term. Lue, you may imagine, likes to hear that.
On Friday, Cavs general manager Koby Altman reaffirmed what team sources had said for weeks – that the team does not intend to trade Kevin Love and try to lose this season as part of a hard rebuild without James. Still, the Cavaliers were opposed to trading Love from the jump, choosing instead to try and remain competitive despite losing the best player in the league: The height of that, obviously, came when LeBron James departed from Cleveland for a second time in the 2018 offseason. Though Kevin Love’s time in Cleveland is coming to an end via a potential buyout, he is still considered a trade-rumor survivor considering he never got traded since joining the Cavaliers despite a lot of smoke that it could have happened. To read all of the Bradley Beal trade rumors, click here. Nonetheless, the scuttle would die down afterward even despite the Wizards following up their 34-win 2020-21 with a 35-win 2021-22, as Beal would agree to a monster five-year, $251.0 million contract one offseason later.īeal hasn’t exactly lived up to that contract so far – and that’s putting it kindly – so it’ll be interesting to see if we shift from the former Florida standout being considered a highly sought-after star to him being seen as an untouchable bad contract. Woj on Beal: “I believe he is legitimately torn… he wants to win and he’s got to look at the landscape of that roster and that team.” It wasn’t just Bleacher Report saying that, either, as ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reported similarly, saying that Beal was torn as to what to do with regard to his future in D.C.: In the event Beal does not become available, the Sixers have yet to make serious traction on any other Simmons deal, sources said. Perhaps if Bradley Beal were to request a trade away from the Washington Wizards – as two sources close to the All-Star guard told Bleacher Report he was considering – Philadelphia could emerge as a serious front-runner with a Simmons offer. The height of Beal’s trade mania likely came in the 2021 offseason, when a report from Bleacher Report indicated that Beal was considering requesting a trade after a 34-38 season in Washington: The subject of trade rumors even despite reaffirming his loyalty to the Washington Wizards repeatedly, Bradley Beal continues to see his name pop up in scuttle, though less so now than a couple of seasons ago.
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