One NBA analyst proposed that the Cleveland Cavaliers trade forward Isaac Okoro to the Brooklyn Nets this offseason.
Greg Swartz of Bleacher Report proposed the following trade idea between the Cavaliers and Nets:
Cleveland Cavaliers Receive: 2029 second-round pick (via Dallas Mavericks)
Brooklyn Nets Receive: F Isaac Okoro
“Following the trade for De’Andre Hunter and Evan Mobley now the favorite to win Defensive Player of the Year (which would cause his max salary to jump from 25 percent of the cap to 30 percent next year), the Cavaliers look destined to become a second-apron team in 2025-26 unless they cut some salary this summer,” Swartz wrote. “Okoro, 24, is perhaps the team’s best perimeter defender and is shooting 39.2 percent from three this season, yet he has fallen behind guys like Hunter and Max Strus in the wing pecking order. A rebuilding team with cap space like the Nets should be happy to take on Okoro and his $11 million salary, especially if it only costs a future second-round pick or two.”
Okoro has appeared in 43 games for the Cavaliers this season. He’s averaging 5.5 points, 2.2 rebounds and 1.3 assists while shooting 44.4% from the field, 37.4% from beyond the arc and 67.7% from the free-throw line.
In September, the Cavaliers signed Okoro to a three-year, $33 million contract. Okoro will make $11 million next season and $11.8 million in 2026-27, the final year of his contract.
Cleveland drafted Okoro with the fifth overall pick in the 2020 NBA Draft. Okoro, 24, has career averages of 8.1 points, 2.8 rebounds and 1.6 assists while shooting 46.5% from the floor, 35.1% from 3 and 72.9% from the foul line.
The Cavaliers have the best record in the Eastern Conference. They are 56-13.
Under first-year head coach Kenny Atkinson, Cleveland is first in the NBA in points per game, 11th in points per game allowed, first in offensive rating, eighth in defensive rating and second in net rating.
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No more Greg Swartz. Please. His proposals are just the worst. And they’re all getting forwarded to this website. Why would any Cavs fan be interested in that trade. Our best perimeter defender. Get him outta here??
This website ran out of trade Isaac Okoro tokens years ago. You tried and tried. Year after year. You failed. He’s still here. At some point you’re out of trade proposal tokens and you have to accept him as a Cavalier. You’ll have to acknowledge your bias against him and recuse yourself from including him in future trade proposals. Your judgement is clearly off.
I clicked because I saw Greg Swartz again, the guy who suggest PG3 and Doc Rivers pairing. So I wanted to see which Okoro trade surely won’t happen. Thankfully, this one.