The Cavaliers just got rid of their coach, but they aren’t ready to break up the gang yet.
Cleveland general manager David Griffin said the team has no plans to trade power forward Kevin Love — right now.
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"You'd have to go a long way to convince me that we're a better team winning in the Finals without a player like Kevin on our team," Griffin said Monday in an interview on Cleveland radio station WKNR. "We've never once put together an offer involving Kevin nor have we taken a call on an offer for Kevin."
The Cavs fired David Blatt on Friday, replacing him with Tyronn Lue. Lue wants to run a more up-tempo offense than his predecessor, which may not bode well for a player with Love’s skill set. Love scored 11 points in the Cavs' 114-107 win over the Timberwolves on Monday.
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"We think very highly of Kevin and we believe Kevin thinks very highly of this situation," Griffin said. "But, I can also tell you that we have been very clear from the beginning that there's no such thing as untouchables. You're either all the way in or all the way out in this process and we believe our guys are all the way in."
Griffin did give himself some wiggle room.
"If it remains that way, then we are going to try and augment the group at the bottom and try to get some additional depth and that's what we'll do,” he said. “We're not going to be afraid to do what needs to be done if something more significant comes along."