Cavs Rumors Include Barbosa and Rasheed Wallace?
The Bleacher Report has an article stating these two rumors. Now, I love a good trade rumor as much as the next fan, and I love the idea of the Cavs signing Leandro Barbosa to run with LeBron, but let’s be serious. The reports are as follows.
A trade scenario would be trading Joe Smith or Anderson Verajo and a first-round pick for Barbosa.
Now, even the wording of this is kind of funny. That is an astute statement. That would be affirmatively referred to as a “trade scenario.” Trading FilteringCraig for Steve Nash also would be a trade scenario.
The other rumor states that the Cavs would trade Zydrunas Ilgauskas for Rasheed Wallace.
The most interesting deal I have been hearing about for a while has been that the Pistons are looking at adding veteran big man Zydrunas Ilgauskas.
The trade that would work is sending Rasheed Wallace and Arron Afflalo to the Cavs for Ilgauskas and Damon Jones.
Now, I don’t know how interested the Cavs would really be in bringing a personality like Rasheed Wallace into the fold in Cleveland. He has always been a great talent and he plays with a lot of intensity. He also has a history of playing with Ben Wallace. It would also be a nice deal for the Cavs who would gain one more expiring deal, as opposed to Big Z who has two years left on his deal.
Let’s look at these two deals together. The Cavs would lose 2 of their top bigs in bringing back Rasheed Wallace, Leandro Barbosa and Arron Afflalo. That would mean the Cavs’ rotation in the frontcourt would include Rasheed Wallace, Ben Wallace, either Joe Smith or Anderson Varejao depending on which player gets traded for Barbosa.
I am going to have to let all this sink in, but right now all I can think of is how loud the “boos” have been for Rasheed Wallace in the past few years in Cleveland.
