Cavs Sign Calderon
2017-07-01
The Cleveland Cavaliers made their first official move of free agency, signing point guard Jose Calderon to a one-year contract for the veteran’s minimum of $2.3 million. News of Calderon’s signing was first shared by his agency, Priority Sports.
A big congratulations to our guy @JmCalderon on reaching an agreement with the @cavs!
— Priority Sports (@PrioritySports) July 2, 2017
While the Cavaliers were linked to Calderon around last February’s Trade Deadline, it’s a bit of a surprise to see them sign him now, so early in free agency. While Calderon was an extremely efficient offensive player in his prime—he has a 50-40-90 season under his belt and has typically had amazing assist to turnover ratios—he declined tremendously last season in terms as a shooter, and has never been much of a defender. As he will be 36 by the start of training camp, it’s hard to see him bouncing back much, although he will likely be left wide open in the Cavaliers’ offense.
This isn’t meant to bash Calderon, an extremely intelligent player who is respected around the league. As recently as the 2015-2016 season, he started 72 games while averaging over 28 minutes and 41% from three. It’s simply that there are likely going to be better options available for the veteran’s minimum later in free agency. Perhaps Dan Gilbert sees Calderon as an affordable and easy player to move aside if Kay Felder (a Gilbert favorite) proves he is ready to backup Kyrie Irving, but considering the Cavaliers’ previous interest in Calderon, that seems a bit unlikely.
Regardless of the reasons, Jose Calderon is now a Cleveland Cavalier. If he can even approach his career norms in terms of passing and outside shooting, he should be a competent backup in the regular season. Stayed tuned to see what the Cavaliers do next in an offseason that has been nothing but boring.
I see this as a more of a regular season maintenance for Kyrie and a floor general for the bench in case they need a facilitator of the offense for the 2nd unit.
I think it’s a good move with those reasons above plus he’s only going to hit i guess 1.6M on the cap instead of 2.3M. So fair deal. The only bad thing about him is that he’s a bad defender.
Grade: B.
Anyone interested in Sefalosha?
Yes. He would require our mid level exception no doubt. Even then, he still might out of our range. He would be better than shump in all likelihood.
I don’t know. Cap room drying up quick. Some guys who didn’t think they’d be taking vet min will be taking vet min.
That would be nice. I would definitely take thabo on the minimum.
I am. Hopefully only for the vet min.
I’d rather spend the MLE on ZBo.
Otto Porter offered the max from Sac-town… it’ll be interesting to see if DC matches.
I don’t get the heartburn over this signing. At worst he’s this year’s James Jones. That’s fine. Cavs have lots of roster spots and cap room is drying up. That’ll get some guys.
I think it’s a pretty good signing. Better natural shooter and playmaker than Deron. Only problem is his age… but as long as he stays conditioned and prepared, age won’t matter much.
Nate is correct.
Calderon will play 10-15 minutes per night. JFJ is garbage time. Big difference.
Eh. I am still trying to get a young guard if I’m them. Tyler Ennis, Erick Green, Shelvin Mack, Shabazz Napier… Try to develop someone to the point where they sit Calderon.
It is less heartburn and more apathy. It doesn’t really do much of anything. I doubt Calderon plays much next year. He was bad last year, worse than D Will with both the mags and cavs. Really seems like he is on his way out given his age and his complete drop off in production. At best, he might produce similar to D Williams on offense and be horrible on d. Not like he was ever a great defender to begin with, but at this point D Williams is pretty bad on d too, so maybe that will be a… Read more »
That’s fair.
Calderon is a solid pickup. He is an incredibly smart player who will make the right read and hit the open three. Also, unlike DWill who was once a legitimate star, he actually knows his age and limitations in his new role as a backup. If he’s helping, he’ll play and contribute. If he’s struggling, you can sit him without worrying about “promised minutes” which seemed to be DWill’s deal. On the Shumpert “dump” I think it’s actually a good thing. He killed the team on defensive rotations, and never understood his limitations on offense. However, because he was great… Read more »
Yup… agree with both points.
Who get’s shump’ minutes. They need to replace him with someone as or more productive because otherwise those minutes are getting shoved onto JR, James, and Kyrie. That will lead to even less rest. Scraping up another vet minimum player to soak up 25 minutes a night is not going to get it done.
Is Derrick still a Cavs? Why not give him the minutes?
Shump often didn’t want to or focus enough to play good perimeter d on wings. He could and did play solid d sometimes. Derrick Williams on the other hand physically can’t guard wings. He is far too slow laterally.
I don’t think you can replace 25 minutes a night of guard play with derrick Williams. I actually like Derrick as a 4 in small ball lineups on this team. He can play limited minutes at the 3 against slower small forwards. Don’t expect him to guard faster wings though.
Good take. Agree with all of this.
I AM GUILTY OF REPEATING MYSELF—-BUT HAVE THE CAVS ( ARE THEY ) OR ANYONE ELSE MADE AN OFFER TO ” ENCHILADA ” ….JUST WONDERING
In terms of dealing Shump, I worry about replacing him. We ditched our replacement (Liggins) for no reason. I’d prefer to keep him & lessen the role unless we have a relacement lined up. He can do good things.
FOR NOT THE FINAL TIME. We cut Liggins because he sucks, is already 30 years old and keeps getting cut by every NBA team.
Dude. Stop yelling at people. It’s not a personal affront every time his name is mentioned. Some people feel differently about the situation than you do. Deal with it.
But they are wrong.
Hey Cols! Did you hear about the kidnapped children NASA is keeping on Mars for sex slaves?
Our non-GM having team is doing work. Getting Korver was big. Run it back baby!!!!
I’d like to see the Cavs grab Rondo, if he doesn’t sign a multi-year deal with another team. I could see him going to the Clippers.
Bet he’s a Clipper, as you say.
THE ONLY THING UPSETTING / FRUSTRATING IS THE BILLUPS ” DISSAPPEARANCE “—- I MEAN HOW MUCH TIME DO YOU GIVE A GUY TO GIVE YOU AN ANSWER —I WAS A STAUNCH SUPPORTER WHEN I FIRST HEARD THE NEWS…. NOW I HAVE MY DOUBTS —-ARE YOU GOING TO WAIT AND SIGN WHEN ALL THE ” BUSY–DRAFT NIGHT / FREE AGENCY ” IS OVER —C’MON CHAUNCEY IN OR OUT SO WE CAN MOVE ON
Agree. The best outcome is that he is actually on board and talking to whats-his-name, but is keeping it a secret for some reason.
Laughed at this a bit.
Interesting to see that only 6 NBA teams have cap space (including holds). 18 teams will have cap space once the holds are eliminated. That’s probably why there’s not much action… teams have to wait to get rid of the holds or renounce them.
That’s some good news. Full offseason to get it locked in.
Good to see that they were able to resign him.
Cavs supposed to be getting younger, more athletic. Instead adding more washed up dead-weights, go Gilbert
Still a lot of guys out there, we’ll have to see what happens…
Cedi is 21 or 22. Korver led the league from deep and was competent on D. Had to bring him back. Even for vets, the first trip to the Finals can give them the yips. James didn’t make a jumper in 07 & didn’t light it up vs Dallas either. Harden was awful for OKC.
I’m not thrilled on Calderon. However, he is smart. His limitations are physical. He’ll be in the right spot. Make the right reads. That helps. Hopefully his down year was more a function of Laker disfunction & limited PT.
Jodie Meeks going to the Wizards…. 2 yr/ 7m …. that’s not a bad deal. Good shooter.
AGREE WITH YOU MIKE ——CHEER UP JASON GIVE COLS A CALL HE HAS THE ” PROPER MED’S ” FOR YOU TO GET OUT OF YOUR FUNK ….STILL EARLY…. CAVS STILL HAVE TIME TO SURPRISE YOU !!…..ALTHOUGH I JUST FINISHED A JUMBO MARGARITTI SO POSSSIBLY THAT IS INFLUENCING MY EMOTIONS
Good news for the Cavs potentially:
Yup… saw a ton of talent still out there. My personal hope is finding a way to go get Rudy Gay.
Oh well, boring offseason = no reason to watch regular season. See you guys in the playoffs
Too much of a downer, Jason. We should enjoy James for as long as he is in Cleveland. We will never see another like him in the Land.
Or anywhere else!
https://twitter.com/joevardon/status/881524217644290048
https://articles.cleveland.com/cavs/index.ssf/2017/07/cavaliers_iman_shumpert_kevin.amp
God help us. Gilbert is trying to make bball decisions. Barf.
“All of this has occurred with acting general manager Koby Altman (that’s not his title, but it’s the role he’s filled since David Griffin left) working with owner Dan Gilbert on all roster decisions.”
‘Oh but don’t worry. Gilbert was probably consulted closely on bball decisions before.’
I doubt to this extent. Felder was likely the most input he had other than signing the checks.
This will make for some fun basketball in the regular season. Could do worse.
Can Felder’s deal turn into a 2 way contract this year?
Cavs just dumb
By dumb you mean they made the Finals three straight years and won a title? What a bunch of dummies.
It’s fine. Wish they’d done this two years ago.
Yeah. They tried to get him last year too.
Cavs are indeed scraping the bottom of the barrel. Funny headline about LeBron not actively recruiting free agents. Who is he supposed to recruit? Only improvement we can actually make will be made thru trade. Though that seems unlikely to me as well. Far more likely that we are just biding our time until buyout season…
Without a GM, maybe LeBron has no idea who the team is interested in.
I am not sure the people making the decisions really have any strong feelings about any player or the best way to proceed. A ship without a captain so to speak. The shump proposal to the rockets led me to believe this. They literally were proposing trading away shump to get a low pick, probably second rounder, and tax relief. That really doesn’t get us any flexibility because we would still be in the tax. It would save Gilbert money though with a large amount of tax relief. A second round pick that low is basically worthless to most teams.… Read more »
Not having Shump on the team would improve it.
I get the idea that there are better guys out there. But getting rid of him without getting anything doesn’t make this team better. Cedi Osman will be a rookie. He won’t be better than shump this season no matter how much people want to wish and dream that will be the case.
Ugh!!!!
Bah. Not a huge tucker fan. He’s not. What he once was and strikes me as a contract year guy.
What that mainly means is the Rockets ain’t going after Shump since they signed Tucker.
Yea this move will clearly not help the CAVS win the 2018 finals!
https://twitter.com/wojespn/status/881359378393083905
I hope someone can talk Durant into signing with whoever for more money. It could happen. It can’t be much fun being on a team with a$$holes like Steph and Braymond.
Now’s the time to go back to OKC since they have PG now. Seriously, I have no idea what their cap situation is, but LeBron should be on the phone with KD right now telling him how great it is to win a championship for your original team. :)
Waste of a roster spot.
I don’t like this acquisition, calderon is clearly over the hill and a liability on defense. gilbert is wasting money here.
Ha. Griffin wanted Jose last year. I hope he has something left.
Doubt he will this season. He is an even older Deron Williams basically. We are scraping the bottom this offseason.