The Cleveland Cavaliers have entered the summer of 2015 looking to keep the band together for another championship run in 2016 by re-upping their own free agents and keeping the money largely in-house. Doing this has required throwing around an unprecedented amount of cash that will result in one of the largest payrolls in NBA history next season.
But what about the 2016-17 season? While the three core pieces of the Cavs roster are locked up for the foreseeable future, there remains one essential piece whose future is very much up in the air.
Timofey Mozgov will be entering free agency in 2016 when multiple teams are flush with cap room with the influx of money from the NBA’s new TV deal, and the list of marquee free agents is relatively thin.