{"id":830569,"date":"2026-07-29T05:10:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T05:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/830569\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T05:10:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T05:10:17","slug":"cavs-still-chasing-kuminga-trade-hawks-interested-in-jarrett-allen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/830569\/","title":{"rendered":"Cavs still chasing Kuminga trade; Hawks interested in Jarrett Allen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/fearthesword.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a> are officially sprinting to complete their offseason checklist now that LeBron James is off the board. A few things on their to-do list include signing Mario Hezonja, restructuring James Harden\u2019s deal, and trading for Jonathan Kuminga.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The latter will require multiple moves to make possible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Cleveland isn\u2019t in a position to add Kuminga in a vacuum. They\u2019re strapped for cash and would have to complete a sign-and-trade to acquire him from the Atlanta Hawks \u2014 who, according to Marc Stein, are showing interest in Jarrett Allen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Cavs, to this point, have refused to play ball in that regard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cSources say that the Hawks have indeed made their interest in Jarrett Allen known to Cleveland for some time, but I\u2019m told that Cleveland still has not entertained moving its starting center,\u201d said Stein on his <a href=\"https:\/\/marcstein.substack.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Substack<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">It\u2019s unlikely the Cavs would deal Allen in exchange for Kuminga. This doesn\u2019t align with how they\u2019ve valued Allen, whose performances in consecutive Game 7s helped them reach the Eastern Conference Finals last season. The Cavs aren\u2019t moving him for a player who hasn\u2019t proven he can play winning basketball at the NBA level.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Kuminga has promise. His raw potential as an athletic, bruising forward is what is drawing interest from Cleveland. But there\u2019s a reason why the market for Kuminga isn\u2019t scorching hot. The Cavs have enough leverage here to keep Allen out of negotiations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Instead, the Cavs are looking to trade Max Strus or Dennis Schroder. Either in a deal with Atlanta, or to another team in a salary dump that would clear enough space for them to sign Kuminga themselves. Both Schroder and Strus are helpful rotational players \u2014 but Cleveland has needed to tweak the roster and consolidate some of their talent in the backcourt for years. This could be their best chance to do so without a major shakeup of the roster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Most fans would prefer to move Schroder over Strus. Though it\u2019s unclear if either player will garner enough interest to make this possible. Cleveland does not have draft capital to use as a sweetener. Whoever takes the salary dump will have to like their coffee bitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cleveland Cavaliers are officially sprinting to complete their offseason checklist now that LeBron James is off the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":830570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,54862,590,85],"class_list":["post-830569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cavs-news","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=830569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/830570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=830569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=830569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=830569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}