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Casspi on his way out of Cleveland?
Omri Casspi was a highly sought out asset when his name became available from the Sacramento Kings. The Cleveland Cavaliers took full advantage of that and 
traded for him, hoping he'd be the future of the franchise. Recently, he's been more of a bench warmer than anything else only averaging 13 minutes this season with his team. There's been some unknown confusion or miscommunication between Casspi and his coach, Byron Scott, because Casspi took advice from Scott as to what to improve for this season in the NBA. Instead of increased minutes, he's seen decreased minutes and chances which have made rumors swirl about him leaving Cleveland this year.
The San Antonio Spurs have been interested in him in the past, could they still try to make a trade now? It would be interesting to see if they are, with a surplus of small players and enough bigs for the season.
The bigger question is, who could the Spurs give up for Casspi that wouldn't seriously deplete their roster for this season's championship run?
Omri is earning $2.27 million this season with a qualifying offer $3.31 million next season. The Spurs could easily match that with a DeJuan Blair/Cory Joseph combination without giving up too much, maybe throw Gary Neal in there to sweeten the offer and also make the roster thinner to where Spurs players will know more or less their roles for the season.
The Spurs have a surplus of bigs and we've seen head coach Gregg Popovich have confidence with Stephen Jackson at the power forward position alongside Tim Duncan, Boris Diaw, and Tiago Splitter (with Matt Bonner getting little to no minutes during games). When a team seems to not have use for a player or the player wants out of that team, any leverage for a trade is lost and it seems the Cavs may not have much of that unless a team desperately wants Casspi on their team.
Omri's energy and offense would give the San Antonio Spurs an unprecedented amount of talent to backup Kawhi Leonard, having teams with superstar small forwards not have a decent rest in the majority of their minutes against the Spurs. If the Spurs can pull off a trade and tinker their roster with their nucleus in check, it would mean bad news for the rest of the NBA.
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pretty sure he is a SF with the same size as SJ and KL, no need to trade for him to be honest.
lol another fantasy trade, you know the organization guys it wont happen as much as we want to.
@WOWWOWBAD Blair for Varejao is more reasonable in my opinion. We don't need to get smaller we need to get Bigger. Might be unlikely for that trade to happen, but it's more reasonable than sending Blair to Cleveland for Omri Casspi. We don't need another Small Forward. Plus I like the SF we have.
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i would not include Gary Neal in this trade. Right now he is irreplaceable in my opinion.
You think clevelands going to give up varejao for blair, c'mon that's never gonna happen unless byron scott and the general manager are major pot heads
Surplus of big? Come on show me! Blair, Bonner? You are pulling my leg. How tall is Casspi, 6'8" - 6'9"? Why not include Varejao, and trade Blair, Bonner, Joseph and Jackson and even Miles or deColo. Why add a draft pick? That's too much.Casspi can play sf and compensates for the lost of Jackson and Varejao for Blair. Why is the Spurs reluctant in giving up Bonner? His 3's are erratic at most and other players can shot the 3s. And, Miles ans deColo can sub for the often injured K. Irving.
@spurs123 Not worth it. Would be giving up too much in my opinion. Stick with what we got for now. Better off getting Casspi as a free agent. I could understand trading Blair for Varejao and a draft pick or 2. One reason being Blair is not getting much playing time now with Splitter in the Starting rotation and Two because Anderson Varejao is on them boards. But I wouldn't trade Stephen Jackson for Casspi. I do like Blair but I could understand a trade for Varejao. That's reasonable. But I don't know why Cleveland would want to trade Varejao unless they wanted to go in a different direction with their team.
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I would rather have Anderson varejao. He's averaging 15 rebounds a game, INSANE!! And it's defensive rebounding where he gets most of his rebounds.
@ajd21 That's what we need on this team. Someone who can grab rebounds consistently. If we had someone grabbing that many rebounds on are team like that on the regular we would be a much better team.
