Jarrett Allen Rumors

Danny Cunningham: #Cavs beat the Bucks 136-111 in a game that wasn't as close as the final score. Cleveland led by 36 points in the second half of this one. Evan Mobley had 27 points, Jarrett Allen had 25 & 11 as both guys played 24 minutes. They took care of business on both ends of the floor against a bad team.

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Evan Mobley on Jarrett Allen: “The team loves it. Anytime he hits a three, gives us all energy. He’s been working on that all summer, so I think whenever the time comes, he’s not backing down from those shots. Tonight that was a great shot by him and it just brings us all up and brings us energy and we just feed off that.”

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Chris Fedor: #Cavs Jarrett Allen just said he expects to play tonight.

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Jarrett Allen on Evan Mobley: “Whenever you are able to see a player go into practice and do things that you never seen them do before and improve every single year, it makes it a lot easier for you to have faith in us. And that is what everybody sees in this building. Every single year he comes back and shows us something new, and now it is just time for him to apply it to the game, which we all know and believe he will.”

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Nacho Losilla: How do you react to trade rumors? Jarrett Allen: "You just hear about it, you understand that it's a possibility and you just have to live with it. At the end of the day, it's not my choice about where I want to go. It's not my choice about a lot of the things I do in my job. I just have to go out there and be the best player I can be and in the summer I have to focus on improving even more. So I hear the noise, I listen to it, I understand it, but I don't let it impact my life on or off the court."

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Jarrett Allen: “I think we have every single ability to be the best team in the Eastern Conference. I think the only thing that will hold us back is if we start questioning our ability to do it.”

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Chris Fedor: #Cavs Jarrett Allen on newcomer Mario Hezonja who has undergone a massive physical transformation while playing overseas: “He weighs more than me”

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NBA Trade Machine: Derrick White was involved in 6.6% of all trades built on HoopsMatic over the past 24 hours. Of those, his top destinations were Houston (12.5%), Atlanta (11.3%), and Memphis (11.3%). Players traded for him most often: Jerami Grant (11.3%), Fred VanVleet (8.8%), and Jarrett Allen (6.3%).

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To answer a popular question in our Substack Chat room: Sources say that the Hawks have indeed made their interest in Jarrett Allen known to Cleveland for some time, but I'm told that Cleveland still has not entertained moving its starting center.

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"[Donovan] Mitchell, [James] Harden, [Evan] Mobley, [Jarrett] Allen. Dan and Grant -- which is the Gilberts. Plus Koby [Altman], he was there when LeBron won there," Paul said. "Big, big, big X factor, let me talk to you about Brandon Weems," who is the Cavs' assistant GM under the president of basketball operations, Altman, and was a childhood friend and James' high school teammate. "Brandon Weems is basically LeBron's brother," Paul said. "Now, he worked his own way [up], nobody gave him anything. He's earned to be in the front office of the Cavs. "But that is a big feather in the cap [for Cleveland], because of Brandon Weems." Paul added that the Cavs would have been even more appealing had the roster still featured fellow Klutch client Darius Garland, who was traded to the LA Clippers for Harden last season. "This is no offense to Harden," Paul said. "Because he loves Garland like he loves Maxey."

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Windhorst added, “He is still a max-level player. … The only real way that I can see that the Cavs could get LeBron the money would be to do a trade with Jarrett Allen. … But I don’t think that would improve the Cavs. … I don’t see the pathway.”

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Another wrench was thrown into this story June 24, when ESPN NBA insider Brian Windhorst made a bombshell claim during a segment on an ESPN Cleveland radio show. “The thought process in Los Angeles — and I think if the Cavs were interested in this, the Lakers would sit up in attention right now — that they would sign and trade LeBron for Jarrett Allen,” Windhorst said, per an X post from ESPN Cleveland. “And I think if the Cavs were willing to do that, they could have LeBron. Obviously, LeBron would have to want to sign with the Cavs. But if your pathway to paying LeBron the money is to trade Jarrett Allen for him, the Lakers would KILL for Jarrett Allen. KILL for him, all right? They would do that deal in 17-tenths of a second.”

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Brian Windhorst: Obviously, LeBron would have to want to sign with the Cavs, but if your pathway to paying LeBron the money is to trade Jarrett Allen for him, the Lakers would KILL for Jarrett Allen. KILL for him. All right? They would do that deal in 17-tenths of a second.

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Chris Fedor: There are questions about can Evan Mobley make that transition from power forward full-time to full-time center, handle the physicality, handle the intensity, handle the rigors that come with that? I don't know. It's just a harder question, I think, than people try to make it seem like because of the impact of Jarrett Allen, because of his effectiveness compared to Evan. And it's like, if you're talking about just this upcoming season as opposed to the next three to five years, me personally, probably pick Jarrett. I think there are people inside this organization that probably would pick Jarrett. But you, unfortunately, you can't only look at that. You have to balance like all these different things that we brought up.  I don't think it's snap your fingers and say that if you break up Jarrett and Evan, you definitely become a better basketball team.

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