Mike Dunleavy is an unfortunate casualty of Dwyane Wade’s decision. The Miami Heat superstar guard elected to join his hometown Chicago Bulls after lowball offers from the Heat.
The sharpshooting wingman will head out of Chicago in order for the Bulls to clear up some cap space to add Wade.
Following from Adrian Wojnarowski and Bobby Marks of The Vertical on Yahoo! Sports.
Chicago is finalzing a deal to send Mike Dunleavy to the Cleveland Cavaliers, league sources tells @TheVertical.
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@WojVerticalNBA) July 7, 2016
Cleveland will use part of the Anderson Varejao $9.6m trade exception to take in Dunleavy's $4.8m contract. https://t.co/Cna25fFwap
— Bobby Marks (@BobbyMarks42) July 7, 2016
Dunleavy adds shooting and depth to an already deathly rotation with the Cleveland Cavaliers. He’s a veteran who plays good, hard defense and knows his role on offense. Catch and shoot, move without the ball and let the playmakers work.
The Cleveland Cavaliers use their trade exception from moving Anderson Varejao earlier in the year. While Wade joining the Cavs was almost never a possibility, Cleveland just got better because of Dwyane Wade. His decision forced the Bulls hand and now the Cavs will get deeper for almost nothing.
