Report: Cavaliers’ Goals For Offseason Were To Extend Donovan Mitchell, Evan Mobley, Jarrett Allen

According to NBA reporter Chris Fedor of Cleveland.com, the Cleveland Cavaliers‘ goals for the offseason were to extend Donovan Mitchell, Evan Mobley and Jarrett Allen. 

The Cavaliers reached extensions with all three players. 

“It wasn’t going to be that kind of splashy summer coming off the Knicks loss where their flaws were so obvious that if they didn’t fix them they weren’t going to reach their goals, they weren’t going to take the next step as an organization,” Fedor said on the Wine and Gold Talk podcast. “Given their salary cap situation coming into this offseason, given the way that their roster was already set up coming into this offseason, it was about an extension for Donovan Mitchell, an extension for Evan Mobley, an extension with Jarret Allen if the two sides could agree to that, and that’s what they’ve done.”

The Cavaliers haven’t made any moves this offseason in free agency or trades. The only new player on the roster is rookie Jaylon Tyson, the 20th overall pick in the 2024 NBA Draft. 

Cleveland lost to the Boston Celtics in the second round of the 2024 playoffs in five games. J.B. Bickerstaff was fired as head coach and replaced by Kenny Atkinson, who signed a five-year deal. 

The Cavaliers could add a new player once Atkinson returns to America from Paris. 

“I’m told that this front office is going to get together with Kenny Atkinson when he returns from France,” Fedor said on the Wine and Gold Talk podcast. “They’re going to have a conversation about whether there are any players out there with ties to Kenny, either from his days in Atlanta, Brooklyn, Golden State that would make sense to fill that roster spot and be some combination of maybe the guy can play, maybe the guy can add playable depth, but he’s a locker room lieutenant for Kenny. Somebody who can teach some of these guys the system and set a professional attitude with the culture and stuff like that.

“I don’t know who that would be, I don’t know who fits that profile. Maybe it is Tristan Thompson, maybe it is Marcus Morris, maybe it is somebody else that we haven’t talked about, maybe it’s, you know, one of these guys that’s on the French national team that he wants to bring to America.”