Cleveland signed Dameyon Dotson away from the New York Knicks to a two-year contract worth two million per year.
The 6'5 shooting guard averaged 6.7 points in 48 games with the Knicks last season, shooting 41 percent from the floor and 36 percent from three-point range.
Dotson played better in the previous season when he averaged 10.7 points a game and played twenty-seven minutes a game which was over ten minutes a game more than he would play in 2019-20.
The 26-year-old was the Knicks second-round choice in the 2017 draft and had spent his entire three-year pro career with the Knicks in Gotham.
Dotson is expected to be battling to be part of the second unit backcourt with Kevin Porter Jr. with Dante Exum and Matthew Dellavedova in training camp.
Speaking of Dellavedova, he signed a one-year contract to remain with the Cavaliers for the veterans'
minimum contract.
The 30-year-old point guard averaged three points and three assists in just under fifteen minutes a game for Cleveland and likely will receive the same amount of playing time this season in the role of good locker room leader, fan-favorite, and running the point off the bench.
The Cavaliers also continued to add to their stockpile of future second-round picks with two separate trades that added no players to the roster and didn't cost them any talent as well.
The Cavaliers acquired a second-round selection in the 2025 draft in return for Cleveland's waiving of any protections of the Bucks 2022 first-rounder which the Cavaliers own.
It took me a few times of going over this before I figured out why the Cavaliers added a pick for taking away the lottery protection of a pick that they already have.
Basically, Milwaukee needs Cleveland to use the 2022 pick in case they would need to make trades in futures years during their window of contention while they still have the prime years of Giannis Antetokounmpo and if that pick has restrictions, Milwaukee wouldn't be able to trade either their 2021 or 2023 first-rounders.
Cleveland adds the pick for their help.
Cleveland also picked up a future second-round pick for their help, this time a 2027 selection for helping the Utah Jazz save some money under the salary cap.
Utah sent the pick and second-year player Rajon Tucker to the Cavaliers for 'cash considerations".
Tucker played in twenty games for the Jazz last season, averaging about eight minutes a night, but
Cleveland made the swap for the future pick and released Tucker, who quickly signed with Charlotte as a free agent.
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