Kevin Love Traded to Cavaliers for Andrew Wiggins

Unfortunately, Clippers would not be able to acquire Kevin Love. However, Kevin Love can tilt the axis to either the West or the East. Let's the debate begins on where will Kevin Love be landed.

I'll start, I can see Kevin Love going to either Golden State Warriors or the Houston Rockets. Both team have the necessary pieces to acquire Kevin Love, it's the matter of salary matching and who's in and out.

For Golden State, they can ship off Klay Thompson, David Lee, Harrison Barnes and a future first round pick to get K Love, but that's losing a lot of depth for GSW. If they manage to acquire Kevin Love and keep Klay Thompson, watch out for the big 3 in Curry, Thompson, and Love. Scary!

For Houston Rockets, I can see them package in Jeremy Lin, Chandler Parsons, a first round pick, and Terrance Jones, but that's depend on how much faith does the TimberWolves on Jeremy Lin. With this trade, the pieces will be there for Wolves to compete, but does it make sense long term wise? If K. Love goes to the Rocket, the Rockets have themselves the big 3 in Harden, Love, and Howard. Love is their ideal 4 and it can really spread the floor. They can always acquire a pass first point guard with low TO's and a defender on the 3's. That team would look beastly.

Sorry Lakers fans, you don't have anything to offer beside their "brand".

What do you guys think?

I think you are right about Houston and Golden State being prime landing spots for him. I think the Lakers are still a possibility, but a third team would likely need to be involved. There is also talk of him going to the Celtics as well.

How is it that golden state makes a splash every summer and we can't

They haven't made any splashes at all. They cleared space for Dwight last summer, but had to settle for Iguodala, who isn't even a natural fit and ended up ruining Harrison Barnes' confidence in the process. Now they want to ruin what was one of the best defensive teams in the league last year by adding Kevin "I Always Get Into Rebounding Position Instead of Contesting Shots" Love.

Just last summer we got Doc Rivers and two years before that we got Chris Paul. So far we're 2 for 3 and are in the mix for the two top FA's this summer.

Spoiled much?

Obviously you weren't here that long. We did make a splash last couple of years.

2011 - Chris Paul

2013- Doc Rivers

That's pretty a big splash myself.

I would think GSW would be an idiot to trade all their asset for Kevin Love. Like I say at my original post, if they manage to trade anyone beside Curry and Klay, they'll be a top threat.

Trade the guy already!!!

Too much talking....

https://twitter.com/mysportslegion/status/489856647058436096

It would be nice if we can get in on this trade and get either Corey Brewer or Chase Budinger.

I'm surprised, I didn't think they would include Andrew Wiggins! If that's true Minnesota needs to jump on that deal and Bennett looked much better in summer league.

Think Cleveland is down playing the idea they wouldn't include Wiggins in a trade for Love. Take the known talent (a top Player) for potential anytime.

Big mistake on Cleveland's part. Trading away Wiggins' potential for an overrated no-defense career loser like Love will come back to haunt them. They aren't ringing this year with or without Love anyway, so why make a panic move like this?

I think it's a terrible deal for the Cavs. They desperatly need another wing defender to help hide Kyrie on defense.

Even if it was Wiggins for Love straight up, I'd be very hesitant. Wiggins is gonna be a baller.

i kind of hope golden state trades for love and ends up losing klay. that would make getting to the finals a little easier for us.

How is Wiggins not a known talent?

Any GM who would trade Wiggins and his 5 year rookie contract for an atrocious defender who's never made the playoffs and is looking for a Max contract should be fired.

So I totally expect this trade to go down.

What if the Lakers kept Vlade instead of trading for the "potential" player Kobe Bryant.

Kevin Love is reportedly a cancer in the locker room. This trade would be such a Cavs things to do.

This is why LeBron going back to Cleveland was such a mistake basketball-wise. That front office hasn't improved one bit since he left and they're already making stupid moves to ruin his chances of winning another ring. He really should have forced a sign-and-trade to the Clippers instead.

Irving, Waiters and Love on Defense?? That would be hilarious.

LeBron is the best wing defender in the league, but even the King can't help that atrocity of a defensive lineup.

Miami already said they weren't going to do any sign and trades. Judging from what we know, I think Pat Riley was perfectly comfortable letting Lebron leave for nothing.

Caps, Wiggins has yet to play an NBA game or perform at a high level in the NBA. I'd take "known" in this context to mean "proven". Wiggins is the definition of unproven in this context if there was one, and Love is certainly a proven NBA player whether one likes him or not. I don't get the Kobe and Divac comparison. Divac was a 27 year old 13/9/3/2 player on a team with a 27 year old 14/8/2/3 Elden Campbell, how are you comparing Divac and Kevin Love here though? Seems like a bit of a stretch don't you think? In....

Agent0, 1.) If you don't like the Lakers analogy, think of it this way. What if the Hornets decided not to trade for the "proven" Vlade Divac and kept the "unproven" Kobe Bryant instead? Playing it safe is the best way to be replaced in the front office. What if Spurs never traded "proven" George Hill for "unproven" Kawhi Leonard. I can tell you that the Spurs would have one less championship and one less EOTY award on their shelves. 2.) While K Love isn't bad at all at switching onto an opponent, that was never the problem. It's what he does after he's on that player. Most of the time when a player is switched onto Love the decide to go for the pull up because Love will not contest the jumps hot and instead head right towards the rim for a rebound. He also can't stay with the player if they decide not to take advantage of his lack of shot contesting and go to the rim because he doesn't have the shot blocking ability to contest a layup or dunk. Basically all that switching is for nothing if he decides not to do anything with the switch (usually his course of action). That's like being the greatest off the ball offensive player, but deciding to pass on a wise open 3 every time. It's pointless. 3.) Let's talk about his offense. Not once did I mention K Love would be an inferior offensive player to Wiggins, nor did I even mention his offense at all. But with Kyrie, Waiters, LeBron, Bennett, Verajao, Miller, Jones, and possibly Allen they won't need anymore offense, and Wiggins isn't going to be a scrub on offense also if I'm aloud to speculate on him. Defense will be their Achilles heal. Kyrie is arguable the....

Because he hasn't played in one fricken meaningful game in the NBA yet, lol. Potential, that's all he is at this point, just potential.

Kevin Love all star, one of the top players in the league, not without some weakness as is every pro player...proven in the NBA.

Any GM not thinking of making that trade should be fired.

I guess we can play the safe game. We can say it's not a fact that Wiggins will be great. We should've said LeBron isn't a franchise player coming out of high school. We should've said Dwight Howard's was too raw to predict him as a future elite Center.

Playing it safe is the absolute best way to win an argument in the present time, so I guess you win this one.

If all a GM had to do was pick out who's the best player currently, we'd all be top level GM's. Sadly for us it takes a lot more than just picking the obvious player to get a job in the front office.

If anybody who's watched Wiggins in high school, Nike Hoop Summit, College and Summer League says Wiggins is unproven is just playing it safe...again, that person wins the argument, but he loses in the long run.

Knockin' em down today lol

There have been a sh!t load of supposed can't miss number 1 picks in the NBA. Look it up you'll be amazed.

You've just cherry picked out the very successful and future HOF's for your example. The exception to the rule.

I'd absolutely play this "safe" as you call it, when a player of Love's proven abilities becomes available via trade. Bird in the hand is worth...

We'll see who wins this so-called argument in the near future.

P.S. Lebron's talents/potential coming out of high school were and are a arms length at least better then Wiggins IMO.

I don't think Wiggins is going to be great because he was taken #1, I think he's going to be great because I've seen what he can do at every level so far.

Wiggins can't be compared to LeBron because there will never be an under 18 year old player as good as LeBron was, but Wiggins is good enough right now to compare him to Paul George.

I'd take a team with LeBron and George over a team with LeBron and Love any day, and that not taking into account $$, bad locker room presence and Love's injury history.

In the end, it just a guessing game on how good Wiggins will end up being. As good as Paul George?? Maybe maybe not.

Reviving this thread. I for one hope that the trade between Minny and Cleveland goes down... for comedic purposes. Cleveland would have too many defensive holes to be competitive and will have mortgaged their future for a much less impactful move. On the other hand, Minnesota will have completed nearly instantaneously a solid rebuild with: LaVine, Wiggins, Bennett and Dieng in tow. They would just need to upgrade their PG and they would look like a formidable team for the next decade, all while Lebron would probably be looking for the next "super team" to join.

home stretch... looks like we just have to wait until 8/23 to make it official but it looks like a done deal

https://sports.yahoo.com/news/sources--cavaliers-have-agreement-to-acquire-kevin-love--who-commits-to-staying-in-cleveland-054657392.html

https://twitter.com/yannisnba/status/497386122423451649

Ha! I never thought I'd see the day where the T Wolves swindle somebody in a trade. Congrats Flip.

Now I can't wait to play the Cavs. Blake and Chris might go for 60 each.

Great deal for Cleveland. For Minny, we shall see. So far the Wolfs haven't done much right for a long while, except for drafting Love and Rubio.

Lebron's got a very good chance of appearing in his 5th straight finals.

I wish Miami Heat win more games than the Cavs!

I am surprised nobody is talking about this deal on this forum. Or is it in another thread that I missed?

it took so long and i guess every accepted the fact that Love is at Cav already...

CapsNClips

Love is far far better than Divac and George Hill. Its not a good comparison at all. If Wiggens reaches his maximum potential he "might" be better than Love and even then its not guaranteed. Chances are he won't reach his maximum potential and by the time he does Lebron will be old. This was a fairly obvious choice to me. Proven all nba caliber player over a good prospect any day.

Good trade for both teams. Minny got some nice prospects, Cleveland got an all nba caliber player, debatable superstar in Love who fits well with Lebron.

This is a REALLY fun thread to re-visit now.

Good thing the Cavs traded that rookie for that "known talent" player because the last thing this Cavs team needs is a defender, lol.