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Cavs and Wolves Agree on Love for Wiggins/Bennett/1st

Very good deal for Cleveland. I think there's much more balance with this team and much less overlap/duplication of talents than with the Miami big three. They just need a couple guys, they don't even have to be good, who play specific roles. Each of the three can excel and push the team without doing it at the expense of another guy.

From the Wolves perspective, I'm surprised they had to settle for a protected pick (though it's not going to be good anyway). I was even more surprised hearing of all the dumpster fires being offered up for Love that were at least legitimate enough to be rumored and not flat-out dismissed. If I'm Minnesota, I take the deal, as the other offers are atrocious. It's not a bad deal. If Wiggins pans out then it will obviously be a better deal if they're able to build around him (which hadn't/didn't/wouldn't work with Love). I kind of see him as the next Jason Richardson, though.
 
nightmare3983 said:
The only thing I don't like about this is that the pick Minnesota gets is protected. It's probably a moot point anyway, but there should be no scenario in which Cleveland could even possibly retain that pick.
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Colton, please put the definition of "moot" into your signature.
 
I'm not pissed at the Cavs because they got robbed.

I don't care they got the most profit outta that barter or not.

I am pissed at their decision as a basketball fan, for the reason of them skipping a fantastic basketball roster experiment like it was nothing exciting.

It's like something inside me is dead now.
 
fishonjazz said:
Agreed.
To hack he seems like three number one picks though
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Way to over exaggerate, but ya, I kinda feel like he's a number one pick. Maybe in most drafts he's only top 3. But he is still is a very good player.

I don't understand stand what people are looking at. It's like people just take their cues from other people, the media, etc.. Anthony Bennett missed like his first 16 shots of the regular season and suddenly he's a bust. People just ignore everything else. Kinda dumb imo. I'd take him in a heartbeat.

Minnesota made out like bandits.
 
Cyrone Torbin said:
Wolves have Wiggins and Lavine?

The athletic ability, my god.
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Minnesota just got real interesting to watch. Don't forget to add Anthony Bennett. Bennett is really athletic too.

From a personal stand point, this is really good for me. Bennett is on my fantasy team. He'll probably get all the Minutes he wants in Minnesota. Can't wait.
 
Hack said:
Minnesota just got real interesting to watch. Don't forget to add Anthony Bennett. Bennett is really athletic too.

From a personal stand point, this is really good for me. Bennett is on my fantasy team. He'll probably get all the Minutes he wants in Minnesota. Can't wait.
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Sounds like there may be a Thad Young for Bennett trade in the works.

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I agree with what Hack has said about Minnesota's side of the deal. Both teams came out fantastically. Minnesota gave their fans a reason to watch basketball. Cleveland gave LeBron a better team than what he had in Miami. The thing to remember about LeBron is that he turns 30 this year. He has played more minutes the last 10 years than anyone in the NBA and it's not even close. He doesn't have very many "peak" seasons left where he can take a team to the finals with no help. Why would LeBron care if Wiggins will be all pro in 4 years? LeBron might not even be playing in 4 years.

Minnesota has someone to build around.
Cleveland has the best team in the East and matches up against SA better than Miami did last year.

Both teams really came out well. Good for them.
 
For everyone who thinks that cleveland got screwed in this trade, please read this arcticle by Bill Simmons
https://grantland.com/features/kevin-love-lebron-james-trade-minnesota-timberwolves/

some highlights:

Love is one of the NBA’s 12 best players. It’s LeBron and Durant, then it’s Blake, Curry, CP3, Carmelo, Harden, Westbrook, Howard, Love, Aldridge and Anthony Davis in some order

Last season, Love averaged 26.1 points, 12.5 rebounds and 4.4 assists per game. Only Kareem, Wilt, Elgin and Billy Cunningham ever averaged 26, 12.5 and 4 in the same season. Nobody has achieved that feat in 38 years. Bird, Barkley, Baylor, Lucas and Malone never did it.


Love finished with a 26.9 PER in 2014 (same as Duncan’s 2003 MVP season, higher than Barkley’s MVP season, and higher than all three of Bird’s MVP seasons) and .245 win shares per 48 minutes (higher than Bird’s three MVP seasons, LeBron’s first Miami season and Barkley’s MVP season).


In 2014, Love averaged 6.6 3s per game (tied for fourth highest in the NBA, the same number as Klay Thompson and James Harden) and made 37.6 percent (better than Ray Allen, James Harden and Chandler Parsons). He also made 50.2 percent of his 2s and 82.1 percent of his free throws. Oh, and he finished third in the whole league in rebounding. Offensive power forwards like Love are basically created in Dork Elvis’s basketball lab.


Love grabbed 12.5 rebounds per game in 2014, but he also became one of the 41 NBA players who hoisted 500 3s in one season. Of that group, no other player averaged more than 9 rebounds in that same season. Think about THAT for a second.



Pretty staggering numbers. His stats are elite.
 
infection said:
Very good deal for Cleveland. I think there's much more balance with this team and much less overlap/duplication of talents than with the Miami big three. They just need a couple guys, they don't even have to be good, who play specific roles. Each of the three can excel and push the team without doing it at the expense of another guy.
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Much balance? How about Kyrie and Love being poor defenders? This Cleveland team needs both Bruce Bowen and Ben Wallace or they'll get pounded by the team coming out of the West.
 
Also, Minnesota wasn't going to resign Love. So instead of playing him this year and then nothing they now have Wiggins, Young, and a 1st.
 
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