Cavaliers sign Georges Niang

    The Cleveland Cavaliers are in a position where they will need to add role players through free agency and they moved quickly to sign their first new player with the addition of Georges Niang to a three-year deal worth twenty-six million.

The thirty-year-old Niang spent the last two seasons with Philadelphia after spending the previous four with the Utah Jazz.

Niang entered the league in 2016 as a second-round choice of the Utah Jazz from Iowa State and averaged eight points a game last season in Philadelphia as a three-point specialist off the bench.

Niang shot forty percent from three-point range and played just under twenty minutes per game for the Sixers and he is noted for being a high-energy player for the second unit.

Niang isn't a great defensive player but that is more of his physical limitation than an issue with effort, so that could be an issue in the postseason, should Cleveland reach that point.

Cleveland has a need for pure shooters that can catch and shoot to surround their stars with and Niang is fairly cost-effective as well as costing the Cavaliers nothing as far as current or future assets, so I like this addition for the squad.

Cleveland is reported to be close to completing a trade that could be announced as early as today, so should that come through, I will be back with my thoughts.