Cavaliers GM: Team has never discussed trading Kevin Love
Now that the Cavaliers have fired head coach David Blatt, the team may look closely at the construction of the roster to see if any improvements can be made before the Feb. 18 trade deadline comes and goes.
It's been widely believed (even by the players) that if a major shakeup were to occur, Kevin Love would be the one most likely to be dealt, for a variety of reasons.
But Cavaliers GM David Griffin says that's not the case, and in a recent radio interview he went a step further and essentially said that the idea of trading Kevin Love has never been discussed.
"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 via Sporting News. "We've never once put together an offer involving Kevin nor have we taken a call on an offer for Kevin."
"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."
It's believable that Griffin has never called around trying to offer up Love in any type of actual deal. But it's highly unlikely that no team has called with an offer as Griffin suggests.
General managers in the NBA talk all the time, and they kick around a ton of potential trade ideas that never get past the exploratory stage. Given Love's struggle to fit and the fact that everyone knows the Cavaliers are in championship-or-bust mode, it's difficult to imagine a scenario where another team wouldn't even call Griffin, if only to check things out.
