Cleveland Cavaliers: Complete 2018 offseason grades
By Ryan Piers
The Cleveland Cavaliers franchise radically changed over the offseason with key departures and additions. It’s time to grade each of their moves.
Did anything of significance happen to the Cleveland Cavaliers this offseason? If you don’t count drafting a cornerstone point guard, extending a key player for $120 million and losing possibly the game’s best ever player to free agency for a second time, then no.
Fresh off an NBA Finals appearance, Cleveland will look a bit different next season thanks to a busy seven weeks. The Cavs used the eighth overall pick in the 2018 NBA Draft to nab Collin Sexton, who hopes fill both the point guard void left by Kyrie Irving and the emptied superstar space vacated by LeBron James.
Kevin Love inked a four-year, $120 million contract extension and multiple supporting pieces pledged their allegiance to the post-James process.
The 2018 offseason was undoubtedly a turning point for Cleveland. The Cavs made multiple moves that will dictate the franchise’s fortunes for the next 5-10 years. They identified two key building blocks, creating a plan that will likely take about three years to play out.
Were the Cavs smart to draft Sexton? Did they make the right move in re-signing Love? How about the other free agents? Are there any players they overlooked?
Here are the grades for each of the Cavs’ significant offseason moves.