{"id":824159,"date":"2026-07-24T23:58:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T23:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/824159\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T23:58:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T23:58:16","slug":"to-execute-a-sign-and-trade-transaction-cleveland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/824159\/","title":{"rendered":"To execute a sign-and-trade transaction, Cleveland \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>League sources, who spoke on the condition anonymity to discuss ongoing negotiations, said what the Lakers are prepared to offer Atlanta in a trade is underwhelming, whereas Cleveland has potentially more appealing trade pieces. The <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/cleveland-cavaliers\/5\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Cavs;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Cavs&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Cavs<\/a> have been linked to possible trades of veteran forward Max Strus ($16 million) and point guard Dennis Schr\u00f6der ($14 million). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7468907\/2026\/07\/24\/cavaliers-jonathan-kuminga-free-agency\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:To execute a sign-and-trade transaction, Cleveland must remain under the NBA\u2019s first salary apron of roughly $209 million, which is why James Harden remains unsigned;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;To execute a sign-and-trade transaction, Cleveland must remain under the NBA\u2019s first salary apron of roughly $209 million, which is why James Harden remains unsigned&quot;}\" class=\"link \">To execute a sign-and-trade transaction, Cleveland must remain under the NBA\u2019s first salary apron of roughly $209 million, which is why James Harden remains unsigned<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7468907\/2026\/07\/24\/cavaliers-jonathan-kuminga-free-agency\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:New York Times;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;New York Times&quot;}\" class=\"link \">New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"League sources, who spoke on the condition anonymity to discuss ongoing negotiations, said what the Lakers are prepared&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":824160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[505,49,48,42549,4850,24602,1525,5407,96420,16550,459,82,288185],"class_list":["post-824159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-atlanta","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cavs","tag-cleveland","tag-dennis-schroder","tag-james-harden","tag-lakers","tag-league-sources","tag-max-strus","tag-nba","tag-sports","tag-trade-pieces"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=824159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/824160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}