John Hollinger

Maybe they just swap out the coach?

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 like come from the minimum becomes very tricky for them to pull off to cut enough salary to get 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

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 streus and trade schruder 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?

I think it's going to be something that's a little bit on the table, yes.

Just based on the history, you know, you hear –

word that, uh, that Kenny was really the owner's call, not the GMs.

And could they go, could they go in a different direction now?

Um, I think they have to at least consider it.

Um, I mean, Kenny Atkins overall has done a good job there, right?