The Cleveland Cavaliers have exercised their third-year contract option on swingman Christian Eyenga.
Eyenga, who averaged 6.9 points as a rookie last season, is under contract with the Cavs through the 2012-13 season. In 44 games last season, the Congo native averaged 2.8 rebounds and 21.5 minutes in 44 games – 18 as a starter.
Skyenga: Year Two. Let’s do this.
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Time to buy my Skyenga jersey.
All hail the one true Christian.
why would they be exercising the 3rd year? isn’t it only his second year in the league?? sorry a little confused by that.
One of the most exciting players on our team last season. Glad he will be a part of the team this season. With any luck, he will be a starting SG for years to come
If he develops a decent jump shot he can be great. I remember once reading an espn article about how he could make a big jump next year because of his defense. I could realisticly see him putting up 10-15 ppg next year due to the fact that we have almost nothing on offense and he will improve with another year in the system
@thekyrieshow: we drafted him in 2009. He’s on the third year of his rookie deal despite only playing one year in the NBA.
How much SF did he play last year… at 6’5″. He is an athletic specimen, and if we are going to have him as our starting 2 this year he won’t be able to be a decent defender. We need him to be a lock. Having a look at his shooting percentages was not encouraging.
Plays defense, very athletic, can’t shoot. Add 4 inches and you’ve got TT.
My only question in all of the speculation is where the points are going to come from. Our best center is a defensiv animal, but is a PF on offense who isn’t a point machine. PF will be Hickson for the year and he can fill it up, as can Jamison if we want the defensive identity to expire. SF is essentially a non-factor in any game except we will be bleeding points from that area. With Christian at the 2 we will be letting Baron do what he likes to do, go shot crazy. Or with Irving in the game, we will be reinforcing a bad first habit.
Scott’s princeton offense and track record point to a pure point guard as a necessity. I just hope we don’t make Irving into a scoring machine when he could be a great pure point. If we have to, I guess he is probably going to be one of the more polished shooters we have.
@Colin McGowan: No, he’s on the 2d year of his rookie deal — he was drafted in 2009, but the Cavs retained his rights while he played overseas the first year, before coming to the NBA in 2010. I think the reason they’re picking up the option now is that there is an advance deadline to either pick it up or decline it — they can’t wait until the end of next season to make that decision.
Seeing rumors of JJ Hickson for Omri Casspi and a first-round pick (lottery protected) out there. Thoughts on this deal if it goes through? Personally I think I like it. Just seems to me like JJ isn’t gonna be sticking around in Cleveland any longer than he has to, so let’s get what we can and move on…
deal is official now, kevin