The future seemed bright for the Cleveland Cavaliers when LeBron James returned home and they then traded for Kevin Love but so far things haven’t turned out as well as they expected. The Cavaliers continue to fall in the rankings losing eight of their last ten games including a current five-game losing streak. King James has been sidelined with knee and back issues. Love knew he wouldn’t get as many touches as he did in Minnesota but he often finds himself on the outside looking in as his point guard, Kyrie Irving takes many of the possessions. The Cavaliers gave up their youth (Andrew Wiggins) to get Love and basically had one-year to convince him to stay. Well clearly this year isn’t going well and Kevin Love not expected to re-sign with the Cleveland Cavaliers..
According to the Akron Beacon Journal:
Love is unlikely to sign long term this summer because of the salary cap. He is expected to opt out of his current contract at the end of the season for cap purposes, but he might only sign a one-year deal to line up for what is expected to be a significant cap spike in the summer of 2016.
Love has said all the right things about re-signing with the Cavs this summer and the Cavs continue to insist he’s here long term. Executives around the league, however, continue to believe Love could leave Cleveland at the end of the season. We’ll see. There is still a long way to go.
