Would a Kevin Love trade to the Cleveland Cavaliers help the team's chances of winning the NBA title next year? A report suggested so. After media outlets announced that the Cavs have agreed to trade Andrew Wiggins, Anthony Bennett, and a 2015 first-round pick to the Minnesota Timberwolves in exchange for its star forward, prominent oddsmakers Bovada has predicted that the Cavs is a 5-2 favorite to win the NBA championship, CBS Sports noted.
The Cavs' standing to win the NBA title was already at 4-1 after LeBron James decided to come back home and reunite with his hometown team. The San Antonio Spurs (5-1) and the Oklahoma City Thunder (6-1) currently trails behind them. Having the best player in the world and a two-time champion in James definitely bolsters the Cavs chances of winning a championship. The Cavs' addition of a scoring and rebounding machine in Love in a roster that features an elite point guard in Kyrie Irving would surely help the team's success, CBS Sports said.
Moreover, it has been made known that the Cavs has an even higher chance at coming out in the Eastern Conference playoffs with only the Chicago Bulls as a legitimate threat, assuming Derrick Rose remains healthy for the rest of the season. This is because Paul George, who had suggeted a gruesome injury during a team training camp, is assumed to be out for a while and will not play for the meantime with the Indiana Pacers, Bleacher Report said. You can perhaps put in the Washington Wizards in the mix if the John Wall-Bradley Beal back court duo continues to make significant strides forward or the Toronto Raptors if their young roster can carry the momentum last year.
Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight calculated that the Cavs would be winning 63 games in the coming season, despite the fact that their hypothetical roster did not have Anderson Varejao in it. Varejao is assumed to have been part of the package for Kevin Love. With Varejao, Love, and James in the team, the Cavs boast a formidable front court.
Indeed, its not difficult to see how a roster that features James, Irving,Varejao, and a mix of veteran shooters and young talented players like Tristan Thompson and Dion Waiters would be the team to beat for the 2015 NBA title.
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