Larry Nance. Jr is returning to Cleveland after a four-season absence to provide frontcourt depth as a possible replacement for Dean Wade, whom the team is actively shopping.
Nance has reportedly agreed to a one-year contract for the veteran's minimum, so the Cavaliers would save cap room if Cleveland could find a suitor for Dean Wade.
The thirty-two-year-old Nance played four seasons in Cleveland after the team acquired him from the Los Angeles Lakers in 2018, along with Jordan Clarkson, for Channing Frye, Isaiah Thomas, and Cleveland's first pick in 2018.
Nance was traded in a 2021 three-team deal with Chicago and Portland that landed the Cavaliers Lauri Markkanen, and has played for Portland, New Orleans, and Atlanta since leaving Cleveland.
Nance played in twenty-four games for the Hawks last season, averaging eight points and four rebounds, shooting fifty-one percent ( and a career-high forty-four percent from three) from the floor in nineteen minutes per game.
Nance suffered a broken femur last season, resulting in a career-low in games played.
Nance will back up Evan Mobley and Jarrett Allen in the frontcourt, and assuming he can stay healthy, Nance gives Cleveland a player they lacked last season, a rangy big man who can hit an occasional three, along with shot-blocking ability as part of the second unit.
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