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With what the Cavs and Kevin Love decide to do being up in the air, there seems to be a a few possible trains of thoughts.

Option 1: Kevin Love tells the Cavs he'd like to stick around
a) Kevin Love plays out his deal opting in next off-season with the plan of extending/resigning.
b) He opts out and is resigned to a long term deal.
Question: What is the likely deal in both cases? I don't think he'll get the max, but I'm not sure if he'd give a discount to the Cavs either. I could see anywhere from 4/95(22/23.1/24.2/25.3) to 4/104(24/25.2/26.4/27.6) as likely deals for him that the Cavs would do.

Option 2: He lets the Cavs know that he would prefer to be moved/will not be willing to sign long term during the rebuild.
a) Do they trade him at the deadline once his value has increased?
b) Play out the year with him hoping to still convince him to resign but also risk losing him outright?

Unless someone blows you away with an offer, I feel like the Cavs really need to play through until December to see where they're at as a team. Obviously you want to avoid picking 10-14 and gifting the Hawks a lottery pick but I suspect it will be easy to avoid that result. The Cavs have a lot of questions as to how good this team is without LBJ. I'd allow our performance to provide us with a direction.

jbk1234 wrote:Unless someone blows you away with an offer, I feel like the Cavs really need to play through until December to see where they're at as a team. Obviously you want to avoid picking 10-14 and gifting the Hawks a lottery pick but I suspect it will be easy to avoid that result. The Cavs have a lot of questions as to how good this team is without LBJ. I'd allow our performance to provide us with a direction.

That's pretty much my take on what is going to happen. We will either outperform the low expectations of the nat media now that Lebron is gone and forfeit a low 20's pick to ATL in a weak draft, or we will be somewhere less where we are saying "should we tank and trade Love regardless of his interest in staying" or " OK he wants to stay here so we should keep him as the best player on the roster and try to build around him by moving other players not in the long-term plan"

Kevin Love has committed to a 4 year, $120 million extension with the Cavs.

^ yep heres the link [url][/url]

This is outstanding news for the Cavs Org and proves we aint tanking