If the Cleveland Cavaliers are going to return to prominence, the front office will need to nail their draft picks and have a good player development system. Yes it sounds very cliche saying a team has to draft well and develop guys well, but it’s the absolute truth, and if you look at how the Cavs became a championship-caliber team, it was kind of the perfect storm of events that helped turned them into a championship contender.
Winning the NBA Draft lottery three times in a four-year span and capitalizing on it, at least in terms of drafting Kyrie Irving, was a big help.