Cleveland Cavaliers: Complete grades for the 2019 NBA offseason
By Phil Watson
The Cleveland Cavaliers have forged a new path behind long-time collegiate head coach John Beilein, but a quiet summer means the rebuild could be a long one.
The Cleveland Cavaliers have had a quiet offseason thus far, operating in stark contrast to an NBA gone mad with superstar signings and mega trades that have dramatically altered the landscape heading into the 2019-20 season.
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The Cavaliers started the offseason by hiring John Beilein as their new head coach.
The basketball lifer will be one of the oldest rookies in NBA history next season at age 66 after a 42-year coaching career that spans back to three years as a high school coach in western New York and extends through a 12-year stint at the University of Michigan that included two trips to the NCAA Tournament championship game.
Cleveland is in transition, potentially looking to deal its last remaining veteran star in Kevin Love, who along with Tristan Thompson are the only two pieces remaining from the team that won the franchise’s lone NBA title just three years ago.
General manager Koby Altman has been quiet this offseason, with the total of his offseason signings being to add an undrafted free agent on a two-way contract.
Not exactly signing Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving or trading for Paul George or Russell Westbrook.
No, instead it appears Altman is content to let Beilein enter Year 1 of his NBA coaching career with some intriguing young pieces, a few veterans to provide leadership/salary-floor insurance and likely a whole lot more losses before things turn around.
Such as they are, here are the grades for the Cavaliers’ moves this offseason.