The Cleveland Cavaliers aren’t going to win many games this season, and now fans are pointing to next year’s NBA Draft to be the silver lining for what will likely be a bleak rest of the 2018-19 season. The Cavaliers’ essentially tanking roster turnout is the reason that Paul Pierce thinks Duke could beat Cleveland, as he said on ESPN’s NBA Countdown.
That is a fairly spicy take, as the Cavaliers (at least by title) are an NBA team. Their players, such as Rodney Hood, Cedi Osman, Kevin Love, Tristan Thompson, Jordan Clarkson and Collin Sexton, are paid to play basketball.