With four All-Star level players on the roster — Donovan Mitchell, Jarrett Allen and Darius Garland have all made an All-Star team, and soon-to-be sophomore Evan Mobley hasn’t but could be the best of the bunch — the Cleveland Cavaliers are going to be good after their trade for Mitchell.
They are a playoff team (I think their regular-season range is No.4-7 seed, the East is deep). The Cavaliers are not title contenders.
Not yet, anyway. But they can be — this team is young, Mitchell will be their oldest starter at 26 — it’s just going to take a combination of internal growth and some clever moves from the front office to round out the roster.
Here are the three things the Cavaliers need to happen to become a title contender. The Cavaliers do not have a true championship-level No.1 scoring option.