Cavs Drama Continues

The Cavaliers' mid-season drama is continuing to swirl, and today's there's a new report surrounding Kyrie Irving when he was still with the Celtics.

Bleacher Report and Cleveland.com's Joe Vardon is reporting that Irving threatened to sit out training camp and then undergo surgery that would've kept him out all season if the Cavs did not trade him before the beginning of the season.

The reason the surgery aspect of this comes up is because back in the 2015 NBA Finals, Irving suffered a broken kneecap and that doctors had said Irving would need a clean-up procedure on his right knee before he would return to active duty. From the basis of this report, Irving will most likely get that procedure done this coming offseason.

But the fact that he so desired to leave Cleveland this past offseason that it greatly led him to these kind of tactics to threaten the front office of the Cavaliers to trade him.

What a mess it has become in Cleveland, after the latest report of a Cavaliers' team meeting where many players and teammates called out Kevin Love for leaving the Cavs game last Sunday due to an illness, and now the report that owner Dan Gilbert is likely to sell the team if LeBron didn't commit long-term.

So as I said before, the Cavs drama is just building up to a point where a lot of pieces may be traded out and a lot of people may either leave by choice or get kicked out. Although LeBron has a no-trade clause and is most likely going to use it to stay in Cleveland through the rest of the season, it now becomes a point where perhaps trading LeBron may be their only solution, and a possible clean break for both parties.

I have said before that the Cavaliers usually get this stuff figured out either by February or March and that is enough time for them to get caught up in the East and make it far enough in the Playoffs. The last few years, they've had this kind of drama but they've still made the NBA Finals, and until I see otherwise, I see the same thing happening here.

Look, this year is different than most, mostly because of the changes that has happened in the offseason, like changing David Griffin for Koby Altman, or getting both Derrick Rose and Dwyane Wade through free agency. Many have speculated that the Wade-LeBron friendship has become poisonous for the rest of the team. They're clearly not the same dynamic duo that we have seen for so many years in Miami.

The fact that Kevin Love is being called out by his teammates worries me, not just because what Love did was suspicious, but because when you get publicly called out my teammates or even coaches on this matter, it does lead to divisions within a locker room, and I believe it's the team against Kevin Love at this point. In fact, it may even lead to Kevin Love leading Cleveland and that may be the best thing for him.

However, it's not good in Cleveland and this year is different than most winters that we've seen out of the Cavaliers. Maybe they get in together in time to make another run in the playoffs, but like we've seen out of this Cavaliers team, it's going to require a bunch of trades and a bunch of movements, whether it be coach, players, or management, and LeBron has always done this every year and usually the Cavaliers have listened. So I won't be surprised if the same thing happens here.

The drama is real in Cleveland and perhaps movements is the only way to solve things. It did the last few years and they've landed in the NBA Finals as a result. Hey, LeBron controls a lot of the operations for the Cavaliers, a lot of things indirectly. That's why I see changes coming and I believe the Cavaliers can get better as a result. The question is: When will those moves be made? And can it fix the drama that we're seeing in Cleveland this time around?