Hello and welcome to the game theory podcast, NBA offseason preview series. We're going to go through all 30 teams and talk about what decisions they have to make this upcoming offseason. We started this earlier this week with the Boston Celtics. We're now going to move to the only team that was ahead of the Boston Celtics in the Eastern Conference standings today with the Cleveland Cavaliers.

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the Cleveland Cavaliers, though, Bryce. 64 wins and ultimately they fall short in the NBA playoffs

again in the second round.

An interesting team, at the very least, a great team that took a massive leap this year under Kenny Atkinson.

You saw a huge jump from Evan Mobley across the board, in my opinion.

You saw Darius Garland get back to what makes him such a special

offensive player now that he is a year removed from the jaw injury that really seemed to hinder

him during the 2020, 3, 24 season. I am like genuinely really interested to see what the

Cavaliers do this summer because they have a lot of difficult financial decisions that they're going to have to make following their decision to acquire DeAndre Hunter at the trade deadline.

Yeah. And not just like cap decisions. I think just decisions of okay, well, this was the first year with a new coach.

This was the first. Some would argue this is the first year we saw this team fully healthy playing together.

You mentioned Evan Moby's growth on the offensive end.

We highlighted and gave love all year to Darius Garland and Donovan Mitchell playing off each other.

And then it breaks down in a playoff series against the Indiana Pacers where Garland missed

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