Windhorst: Kyrie Irving asked to be traded last week (Spurs, Heat, Wolves, Knicks) Updt pg. 30

[WaveTheWheat80]

Cleveland still has no reason to accept anything less than full value for him. He's under contract for 3 more years at a discounted price. Hood/Rubio packages arent getting it done. Might as well keep him, have another finals run, hope to get lucky for a chip (or not, w/e) and then re-asses next season when Lebron is also a FA

Favors would be an awesome 5 in cleveland. How about Favors/Hood/Rubio/pick for Irving/Thompson?

Rubio is never going to the Cavs, first off. No way, no how. He's a terrible fit with Lebron. Favours is never on the court and Hood is an ehh, above average, 3 and kinda D player. Guys who cant shoot and guy who cant stay on the floor is a non starter

True. Favor's health history is an issue. IF he's healthy he's a total stud for Cleveland though. Almost the perfect center for Lebron.

[Aurelius]

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[The4thHorseman]

Kyrie's not happy with the 20fga he avg. last year? He wants to go somewhere he can launch 30 shots a game w/o repercussions and lose?

[King Close]

I"d take him, he hasn't shown he can win on his own so i'm not sure what he'd be worth. I'd definitely do our garbage euros in Evan, and Vuc aswel as Elfrid. I may be missing the mark completely on his value - though that's what i'd be glad to give up for him.

[Mich3006]

[Grba]

Spurs, but I doubt that would happen

[Mr.Raptorsingh]

Milwaukee.

[WaveTheWheat80]

I think Cleveland should target Minnesota or PHX if Irving really does want out.

[Purch]

This is honestly because Lebron's being ridiculous. This whole season would have ended up a media circus of wheres Lebron gonna go

[phraoh]

I can guarantee you that he isn't being traded to Miami since Gilbert and Riley absolutely hate each other. Gilbert is going to trade him where Cavs get the best deal....why would he worry about Kyrie's 4 teams. I think that Cavs would either be looking to send Kyrie to NY or Phoenix as they will want to get one of Lebron's buddies (Bledsoe or Carmelo). I think Kyrie would like to go to Minnesota as he is good friends with Butler. Should be interesting. I do think he will be traded pretty quickly.

[jbk1234]

The incompetence of letting the griffin thing go on to the trade deadline and then letting him go while he was in the middle of many trade talks is off the charts. Completely moronic to not have it sorted one way or the other by then.

We could have had a great team. We had good deals for Kyrie and now we won't get anything worthwhile everyone's been traded already.

The Pacers jobbed us. They pulled out at the last the minute. They then took less from OKC. It had nothing to do with Griffin & everything to do with not wanting to see PG in a Cavs jersey next to LBJ.

You don't know that though. Grif may have been able to get it over the line if it was that close. And that trade was a love one that came after the Kyrie ones.

I've wanted to trade Kyrie forever. What's out there now though

I'm pretty sure the Bledsoe/PG trade had Kyrie going out. I would agree with the Griffin super-powers theory if the Pacers didn't take a pure garbage offer from OKC. It wasn't just the Cavs, they passed on whatever the Celtics would've offered after they Hayward.

[Black Jack]

How about Kyrie to the Spurs. Finally, this is the moment Rudy Gay and Kevin Love will be teamed up. It almost happened draft night 2008. A Gay-Love paring is their destiny

[NBAFan93]

Best (and most plausible) theory I have is that LeGM tried to float Kyrie trades after Love didn't get great offers, Kyrie got upset, then started making demands. Considering Kyrie almost never leaks things to the media, and LeBron always does (especially via Windhorst), this story sounds like LeBron is setting the stage for him to leave with some level of damage control (See, Kyrie demanded a trade first!). Leak the story now so that should he leave, some of the emotional blow is gone.

So again, all of this is somehow about the Lakers?

[Mr.Raptorsingh]

[Seabass11]

kyrie/fillers for Wiggins/Teague (when he's available) seems legit. Kyrie/JJ/KAT would be fun af to watch. irony at its finest with Wiggins returning. Make it happen

[Mich3006]

Nuggets would be an ill fit... They can offer a boatload of assets. Maybe a 3-team deal with PHX to send Bledsoe to Ohio.

EDIT: You should add a poll OP.

[cdubbz]

Brooklyn Nets

[Warchant]

Chris Paul would have been great too. All the moves that could have been made aren't ready done. Such a terrible time for all this

Sometimes having an owners with a dickish streak comes in handy. I strongly suspect this might be one of those times. Kyrie isn't going anywhere this season unless there's an issue in N.O. or OKC.

There is NO way LB and Kyrie can co-exist anymore....the team chemistry will be an absolute low and Kyrie will get the last laugh cause he will have a minor injury and just milk it

[gino_giode]

Kyrie got tired of this winning nonsense getting in the way of his stats. We can all remember what a dynasty he was launching as "the man" before Lebron arrived.

He's sick of LeBrons micromanaging and hypocrisy. LeBron plays lazily throughout the season then bites off his teammates heads whenever they screw up. If LeBron misses am assignment he just wipes his chest and says "my bad", case closed

[TommyPoints]

What are the Celtics waiting for. This is the perfect moment to use those assets

Thats the Cavs direct compeition. Unless it's a ridiculous overpay, there's no way Cleveland trades him to the (likely) 2nd best team in the East

I agree, unless they know that Lebron is also as good as gone. Then going ahead and kickstarting the rebuild might make sense.