{"id":158790,"date":"2026-02-01T04:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T04:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/158790\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T04:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T04:58:10","slug":"sources-cavs-trade-hunter-to-kings-for-schroder-ellis-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/158790\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources: Cavs trade Hunter to Kings for Schroder, Ellis"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a> are trading De’Andre Hunter<\/a> to the Sacramento Kings<\/a> for Dennis Schroder<\/a> and Keon Ellis<\/a>, sources told ESPN.<\/p>\n

The three-team deal includes the Chicago Bulls<\/a> acquiring Kings forward Dario Saric<\/a> and two future second-round picks, sources said.<\/p>\n

The Cavaliers turn Hunter’s salary slot into depth at point guard with Schroder and a top defender on the market with Ellis. The Cavaliers also save about $50 million in salary and luxury tax bills this season because of the transaction and drop their tax bill from $164 million to $120 million, according to ESPN’s Bobby Marks.<\/p>\n

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This also positions Cleveland to get under the second apron next season. Ellis is on an expiring $2.3 million contract but is eligible to sign up to a 3-year, $52 million extension starting on Feb. 9. Despite being an apron team next year, Cleveland can re-sign Ellis and exceed the threshold.<\/p>\n

In Hunter, 28, the Kings receive an established ‘3-and-D’ wing under contract through next season. Hunter has averaged 14 points and 4.2 rebounds. It also brings roster flexibility to the Kings, including space to convert two-way center Dylan Cardwell<\/a> to a standard NBA deal.<\/p>\n

Cardwell has been a revelation for the Kings as an undrafted rookie, averaging 4.7 points, 7.1 rebounds and 1.7 blocks in 19.8 minutes per game.<\/p>\n

Saric is on an expiring contract worth $5.4 million, which the Bulls will absorb and net future assets to consummate the trade. The Bulls are also waiving guard Jevon Carter<\/a> to create space for Saric, sources said.<\/p>\n

The Cavs are sending the Bulls the 2027 second-round pick they own from the Denver Nuggets<\/a>, according to Marks. The Kings are sending a 2029 second-round pick to the Bulls. It will be the least favorable of picks from the Detroit Pistons<\/a>, Milwaukee Bucks<\/a> and New York Knicks<\/a> Knicks.<\/p>\n

Schroder is averaging 12.8 points and 5.3 rebounds this season, his first season with the Kings after signing a three-year deal last summer. Schroder is owed $14.1 million, $14.8 million and $15.5 million on the final three years of his deal, with the final year partially guaranteed.<\/p>\n

Schroder and Chicago’s Tre Jones<\/a> are the only players averaging 10 points and 5 assists off the bench this season.<\/p>\n

Ellis, who has averaged 5.6 points, is one of two players in the NBA averaging 2.0 steals and 1.0 blocks per 36 minutes this season, joining Detroit’s Ausar Thompson<\/a>. He will be extension eligible on Feb. 9.<\/p>\n

Sacramento will take on the $23.3 million and $24.9 million in the final two years of Hunter’s deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cleveland Cavaliers are trading De’Andre Hunter to the Sacramento Kings for Dennis Schroder and Keon Ellis, sources…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158791,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":{"0":"post-158790","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento","8":"tag-sacramento","9":"tag-sacramento-headlines","10":"tag-sacramento-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}