Joe Jonas

Maybe they do one player out.

Or do you see, hey, we're just going to trade Donovan Mitchell and start over?

Their hands are very tied financially because they're so locked in on so many big contracts right now.

When you look at paying Mitchell and Mobley and Harden, who I think they're going to bring back, and Jared Allen.

And so there's just not a lot of wiggle room there to do other things.

The one thing you...

that people are going to bring up is LeBron James, I'm sure.

And even to do that, unless LeBron was going to come from the minimum, becomes very tricky for them to pull off, to cut enough salary to get below the first apron, to do a sign-and-trade so that you can pay LeBron somewhere even remotely close to his market value.

It becomes very tricky.

They have to send out contracts just to do that.

I mean, is there a scenario where they send out like Allen and Struis and trade Schroeder somewhere else and then take in LeBron and he makes like 25 or 30 or something?

Yeah, maybe you could talk yourself into that.

But it's just the cap dynamics are so hard for them that running it back is almost their only choice.

Like that's why that's why they did Garland for Harden in the first place.

It was the only thing they could do.

So I wonder, we just saw the Knicks swap out Thibodeau for Mike Brown.

Now, he wasn't their first choice.

I think they were chasing, remember he serves Jason Kidd, Michael Malone.

I'm not exactly sure all the guys, but Mike Brown wasn't their first choice.

Does Cleveland consider that?