Overall salary: Cavs = $9.5M, Warriors $18M
Advantage Cavs

# of players over 30: Cavs = 0, Warriors = 1
# of players 22 or under: Cavs = 2, Warriors = 1
Advantage Cavs

If you're the Timberwolves and getting rid of Love, why in the world would you want to replace him with a $15M Center who's 31? And why would the attractive trade bait be your 31 year old while the 22 year old you're offering is the definition of meh? I don't think the Cavs' trade bait is that great. Don't get me wrong. But the Warriors' trade package based on what the TWolves need right now is complete garbage. I would bank on Bennett's upside over Barnes' probable career of 'meh', and Waiters' youth and low salary over Lee.

David Lee vs. Anthony Bennett
David Lee vs. Dion Waiters

:facepalm: I wasn't saying they should trade Love for Lee. Just that even just Lee is better than what Cavs could offer without Wiggins.

Dumb idea. How about make the season start on Christmas Day and be a 50 game season.

The only chance the Heat had to keep him was for Wade/Bosh to opt out and for Riley rebuild the roster. McRoberts/Granger wasn't enough and LeBron left. Not sure what's so difficult to understand there.

I have absolutely no idea what this is supposed to mean. A midseason tournament to accomplish what?

Who cares if Lee is better? The question is who's offering better trade comp.

Offering a 31 year old on a $15M contract with 2 years left is the last thing Minnesota should want in return. Unless the Wolves are trying to win now and it would be foolish of them to try to do that.

Miller went with LeBron over the money. Cavs could use another shooter/stretch 4 now. Rashard Lewis?

Uh....what? Why?

I don't know either I don't follow soccer.

Edit: Here is some more info

It would make sense if it were a world championship of basketball or something..

Would it replace the all star game or something?

Only way i think it's a good idea is if they trim the number of regular season games down to about 70 or 60. Even then it still doesn't make sense. The winner of the tournament would be at a disadvantage the rest of the season and post season due to playing more games than the other teams.

the Wolves have been rebuilding for 15 years. They are worse than the Chiefs when it comes to rebuilds of a rebuild. You'd think the Minnesota fanbase would want a competitive team for their market not having to trade their SECOND star player for more rebuild pieces.

I've read the mid-season tourney idea from Bill Simmons in the past, but it was accompanied by other related ideas such as shrinking the regular season and giving the winner of the mid-season tourney a playoff spot (or something like that).

If you're talking about getting blue chip trade bait, sure. But replacing Love with Lee and Barnes is going to make your team worse on an already bad team in an increasingly competitive West. If I have a choice between taking David Lee to that enormous contract or being given a bunch of young first round prospects, I'd go with prospects every single time. You can take that $10M in cap savings next year and invest in someone who can actually make your team competitive again.