Why The Cleveland Cavaliers Should Pursue This Trade

Obviously, if the Cleveland Cavaliers are trading a playmaker for a floor spacer, they must need floor spacing.

They do. This team shot 35.1% from deep in the regular season, good for 15th in the league. That’s not horrible: in fact, it’s precisely in the middle. If the Cavaliers intend to enter next season with larger aspirations, it’ll need to improve.

Powell is a tremendous help in that regard. He shot 41.9% from distance in 2021-22. He’s not strictly a floor spacer either. He’s athletic enough to be a positive force in transition and can attack set defenses if called upon to do so.

He just doesn’t quite have the isolation tools that LeVert does. The Cavaliers should be willing to make that trade-off. They need his shooting. There’s also a reason they’re the team giving up the better draft capital here. Powell is a generally more impactful player than LeVert.

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If the Clippers decide they need the latter’s ball-handling badly enough, they’ll make this trade anyway. With the added bonus of a first-round pick, it might be a no-brainer.