The Cavaliers have made a trade and it’s not going to top the news of yesterday, but it certainly will help in the future. The Cavs have traded Shooting Guard Scotty Hopson to The Hornets for Center Brendan Haywood and the 45th overall pick in the 2014 draft Dwight Powell. You’re asking yourself at this moment why does this even matter?
Just bare with me here for a second. Brendan Haywood signed a six year $55 million dollar deal back in 2010 which left plenty of people around the league scratching their heads. Two years later Haywood was waived under the NBA’s amnesty clause to give Dallas room to sign Chris Kaman. Haywood’s contract could net the Cavaliers up to $5 million dollars more than Haywood’s non guaranteed money for any player that they’d receive, and the team that receives Haywood could waive him and receive at least $10 million in cap space.
The trade may seem lack luster, but this could help The Cavaliers trade for a player with a big contract and shows General Manager David Griffin’s outside the box techniques to acquire a player. I’d be stunned to see Haywood suit up for The Cavs.
Dwight Powell is expected to make his debut tomorrow in Cavaliers summer league game tomorrow against San Antonio. Here’s a few highlights of The Cavaliers newly acquired player.
If this trade does end up getting The Cavaliers a player like Kevin Love due to packaging Haywood in a deal I’d give the deal an A+, but we will have to wait and see if they do end up landing a big time player.
