3 questions for the Cleveland Cavaliers if the season is over
If the NBA’s hiatus is the end of the 2019-2020 regular season, three questions for the Cleveland Cavaliers as they head into the offseason.
Fewer teams across the league had lower expectations this year than the Cleveland Cavaliers. The 2019-2020 campaign was just the second year since LeBron James left in free agency for the Los Angeles Lakers. As you can imagine, it flipped the franchise upside down.
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After drafting Collin Sexton in the 2018 draft, and Darius Garland in the following draft, the Cavaliers began forming a young core. It’s not the most promising among the league but has multiple bright spots in their two young guards, and you can add Kevin Porter Jr. to that group.
If the COVID-19 outbreak has truly ended their 2019-2020 campaign, then they’re entering the draft lottery with the league’s second-worst record, behind only the Golden State Warriors.
Meaning Cleveland has a 14 percent chance at earning a top-3 draft selection–and is in line to make another addition to the personnel of their rebuild. But the upcoming draft is just one of many topics the Cavaliers will have to address as they transition into the offseason.
Their roster as constructed makes little sense, even in this newly birthed era of positonless basketball. They’ll be one of few teams with multiple maximum level contracts not making the playoffs, and they’re yet again walking into the year with a new head coach.
That being said, a look at three questions facing the Cavaliers walking into the summer.