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Welcome to the Ringer NBA Show Friday edition and our guest today is Tim Bonk-Temps from

Washington Post.

I don't know if at least one of the names is big and that is Kyle Corver going to the

prohibitive favorite in the Easter conference, the Cleveland Cavaliers.

Give me your thoughts on Corver going to the Cavs and how much it moves the needle.

I wrote about it last night after the trade show didn't even finalize us.

We're talking now but it's just they've just kind of sort of two things out before it's

finished because it's pretty complicated deal.

I think it's a significant trade for a few reasons.

I think if you watch that Christmas Day game, yes, Cleveland won the game but Golden State

dominated most of that game and from a neutral perspective it was pretty clear that sitting

there watching the game in the arena that the Cavs were a player too short.

They only played eight guys in that game.

The other guys is DeAndre Liggins who is just a complete non factor on offense.

They needed to get another guy or a few deeper in their rotation which they were pretty

open about.

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