Cmon Koby you never delivered us the JR trade we were all dying for, get off ya bum and trade Clarkson!
Unless someone wants the player I doubt their will be a big market for expiring contracts this deadline. The FA market is slim pickings. Not like in years past where teams needed to clear cap for top tier guys. Their are no top tier guys aside from AD who is staying in LA per all reports and with Rich Paul as his agent he ain't leaving Bron. DeRozan isn't a guy teams clear cap for.
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So, far I am pretty happy with what Koby has done. Once we see Windler and KPJ gets more comfortable, we will be giving Koby more credit I think.
Cleveland Cavaliers general manager Koby Altman has agreed to a long-term contract extension, league sources tell ESPN.
Owner Dan Gilbert tasked Altman with reshaping the roster and organization post-LeBron James, which has included the drafting of a promising backcourt -- Collin Sexton and Darius Garland -- and the hiring of well-regarded University of Michigan coach John Beilein.
Altman, 37, is the first GM of the Dan Gilbert ownership era to receive an extension. He bought the Cavaliers in 2005.
Altman was promoted to replace David Griffin in 2017, originally signing a three-year deal to run basketball operations.
The Cavaliers reached the NBA Finals in Altman's first season on the job.
Under Altman, Cleveland has placed a high priority on player development -- a key factor in the hiring of Beilein. Altman has been pursuing an environment reshaped around an influx of young players immersed in fundamentals. Along those lines, Altman has been assembling young assets and draft picks, acquiring four first-round and nine second round picks since his promotion in 2017.
Altman was responsible for drafting three players in the 2019 first-round, including Garland and forwards Dylan Windler and Kevin Porter Jr. Altman selected Sexton in the 2018 draft, who was voted a second-team All-NBA rookie.
The Cavaliers signed three players to extensions, including five-time All-Star Kevin Love, Larry Nance Jr. and Cedi Osman. The Cavaliers are 2-2 to start the season, including back-to-back home victories over Chicago and Indiana.
I'm generally an Altman fan. I think he's a well liked/respected guy around the league. Still a little green as a head executive, but I think he has improved greatly since his first year and I think he continues to improve. I like his scouting chops.
Most importantly, I really do think he has Dan's respect/trust. He is Dan's guy and with Dan's stroke, it has really caused Dan to take a step back and Altman is firmly in control of the day-to-day operations. He absolutely owns the Beilein hire and they operate as a partnership. They're inextricably linked forever. Beileins successes and failures are ultimately Altman's as well.
I think he does have a long-term vision for this team, and with a little luck I think the upcoming trade deadline, draft and free agency periods will start to see that vision come together as he focuses on beefing up our forward rotation with athletic, long switchable defenders to complement our shooting and scoring focused guards.
But now Altman is in the big chair, making the big decisions, with pretty much full control of all basketball operations. He will be given the time and opportunity to see his vision through. I think his leash is pretty long, I think he will be allowed to fulfill a full 5 year plan and I think year 1 was probably this summer, even though he had the pick we took Sexton with in 2018 . But his true year 1 was this year, he had a top 5 pick(wish we had the top 5 pick in 2018 though because we would 100% have JJJ, Doncic, or Trae Young. Altman was OBSESSED with Doncic. Almost got him anyway but Orlando screwed us by leaking that they wanted Trae at 6 and Atlanta wouldn't move behind them at that point.
Anyways, he got his coach, he got 1 free year of full tank/asset accumulation, he got 3 at bats in the first round of the draft. That's year 1. I think barring total catastrophe, he will get to see the next 4 seasons through.
I am curious to see if the Cavs can manage a way to get value out of free agency, even if it's using cap space to trade for someone--but not picks, an actual player we decide to dedicate some cap to. I have a couple targets over the next year or two in mind. That's for another thread though.
Oh now you extend a GM? Not the one who built a championship roster and kept the locker room together.
Yeah, I think it's pretty clear now that no amount of money or even control at that time would have made Griffin come back. I think he wanted the challenge of building his own team instead of needing to build around a superstar(s) that had a ton of input from the very beginning. He did a good job, but by the time it was all over, this was not the job he wanted.The one who has since admitted in interviews that he didn't want to come back and that he was miserable the year we won a championship?
Oh now you extend a GM? Not the one who built a championship roster and kept the locker room together.
You mean the one that ripped through every draft asset they had and left them high and dry.Oh now you extend a GM? Not the one who built a championship roster and kept the locker room together.
The one who has since admitted in interviews that he didn't want to come back and that he was miserable the year we won a championship?