Daily News - June 27, 2019

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Kevin Porter Jr. trade official, rookie will be with Cleveland Cavaliers for
Salt Lake City Summer League Author: Chris Fedor Publication: Cleveland.com

CLEVELAND, Ohio — The Cleveland Cavaliers’ draft class is finally complete.

Cleveland officially acquired the draft rights to rookie Kevin Porter Jr. from
the Detroit Pistons in exchange for up to four second-round picks and $5 million
— an amount that was set to expire if the Cavs didn’t use it.

The deal was agreed to on draft night, but the trade call with the league didn’t
take place until Wednesday.

Porter was originally selected by the Milwaukee Bucks with the 30th pick in the
2019 NBA Draft before having his rights sent to Detroit along with guard Tony
Snell in exchange for forward Jon Leuer — a salary-related maneuver that is
expected to help the Bucks potentially re-sign Malcom Brogdon, Khris Middleton
and maybe even Brook Lopez.

The Cavs then acquired the last pick of the first round from Detroit, which was
used on Porter — a talented but troubled shooting guard from USC who slipped
down the board because of off-the-court problems. – CLICK HERE to read full
story.

Rounding It Out Author: Joe Gabriele Publication: Cavs.com

On Wednesday, less than a week after the smoke cleared on the 2019 NBA Draft,
the Wine & Gold made it official – formally announcing the acquisition of Kevin
Porter Jr., the final pick of the first round who was acquired by Cleveland via
Milwaukee and Detroit.

There isn’t a big scouting report on the Seattle native, who played just 21
games at Southern Cal after dealing with a quad injury followed by a two-game
team suspension. He was limited to just 21 games for the Trojans, but did enough
to impress scouts and become a first round selection.

The 6-6, 218-pound shooting guard idolizes fellow lefty, James Harden. He’ll
have to pump up his numbers to reach that strata, but he showed glimpses of that
potential in college – averaging 9.5 points, 4.0 boards and 1.4 assists,
shooting 52 percent from the floor, including 41 percent from beyond the arc.

Porter’s two best games at USC might have been his first – netting 15 points on
6-of-7 shooting off the bench against Robert Morris – and his last – dropping a
career-high 17 points against a stingy Washington Huskies squad in the Pac-12
Tourney. – CLICK HERE to read full story.

Lindsay Gottlieb didn’t want to be a token hire for the Cavaliers. Here’s how
she learned she wasn’t Author: Joe Vardon Publication: The Athletic

CLEVELAND — Before Lindsay Gottlieb accepted the Cavaliers’ offer to become
their first female assistant coach, she wanted to vet it. She wanted to talk it
through with her friends on the Golden State Warriors.

Let’s back up for a minute. Gottlieb, 41, worked for the past eight years at a
college and a general place on the map where what she’s doing now in Cleveland
isn’t that big of a deal, conceptually.

A woman can coach in men’s basketball if she knows her stuff because the game is
the game and we’ve evolved as a human race to the point where if there’s a
person who can make a player better, regardless of gender, then it’s a smart
hire and advantageous for the man who’s about to be coached up. Or so the
thinking goes.

Gottlieb was coaching the women’s team, not the men’s, at the University of
California-Berkeley, but, more broadly, she was working in a community (the Bay
Area, including San Francisco, Berkeley and Oakland, Calif.) where this kind of
idea is met with a shrug. Because, of course, anyone can do anything, regardless
of race or age or gender or orientation. – CLICK HERE to read full story.

Daily News – June 27, 2019

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