The Cavaliers will use a portion of their mid-level exception to sign Ricky Rubio, Chris Fedor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer tweets. Rubio has agreed to a three-year, $18.4MM contract to return to Cleveland.
Rubio, who suffered a torn ACL in late December, finished the season with the Pacers. The Cavs’ front office explored the possibility of a sign-and-trade with the Pacers but couldn’t come to an agreement, Fedor explains.
Here are a few more contract-related notes from around the league:
- The second year of Bol Bol‘s contract with the Magic is a team option, Khobi Price of the Orlando Sentinel tweets. According to Spotrac, Bol Bol’s two-year deal is a minimum-salary contract worth a total of $3,968,718.
- The unlikely bonuses in Luguentz Dort‘s contract with the Thunder are for making the All-Defensive Team and the Defensive Player of the Year award, according to ESPN’s Bobby Marks (video link). Those bonuses are worth $1MM annually. The five-year deal has a total base value of $82.5MM.
- Chris Boucher‘s three-year, $35.2MM contract with the Raptors is fully guaranteed, Marks tweets. The first year of the contract is worth $12.7MM and his cap hits decline over the following two seasons.
Hopefully Sexton and his team sees the contact that Dort got and realize that’s likely what he’s getting. Would be a terrible move by the Cavs to have him in this advantagous situation and let him sign the QO and just walk next season or only get a measly late round pick for him if they decide to trade him.
Dude is still young and a straight bucket getter. He does it on very solid percentages, is a work horse, and was drafted by the Cavs. Would hate to see Sexton leave. A team with hardly any Free Agent appeal and ranked 25th in offense last season can’t afford to just let Sexton or get zero value from him.
Dear Cavs Fan,
Are you TRULY happy with what the team has done this year? Sure I think we drafted well in Agbali. Sure we locked up Garland? Great we’ll have Rubio back at some time this or next year. But what have we done to IMPROVE the team? This team was great defensively as a top 7 team in opponents points allowed. With Allen and Mobley back we should be good defensively again. However if we seriously have aspirations to be a true contenders then we have to improve our offense which was a bottom 5 team last year 25th out of 30th. Last year we really relied on Garland way too much especially in the 2nd half when he played 38 min which led the nba. We are solid at every position except SG. Agbali COULD slide over there but he’s more of a SF and has yet to prove himself.. I get they want to save some money but let’s other the guy a 4/$80 contract so we all can feel good. let’s see what that group can do together. It’s worth it because 24 ppg is hard to find in Cleveland. No top FA is coming.
Good post !! Love all your points.
Thank you sir.