{"id":347416,"date":"2023-09-12T07:52:58","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T05:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=347416"},"modified":"2023-09-12T07:52:58","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T05:52:58","slug":"tristan-thompson-finalizing-deal-with-cleveland-cavaliers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/tristan-thompson-finalizing-deal-with-cleveland-cavaliers\/","title":{"rendered":"Tristan Thompson finalizing deal with Cleveland Cavaliers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Center\/forward Tristan Thompson is nearing a deal to return to the Cleveland Cavaliers, as confirmed by Rich Paul, CEO of Klutch Sports, to The Athletic and Stadium. Thompson was a key part of the Cavaliers&#8217; 2016 NBA title-winning team and participated in four NBA Finals. He will now provide the Cavs with leadership and some frontcourt depth.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Last Season&#8217;s Stats with LA Lakers:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Games Played: 6<\/li>\n<li>Minutes per Game: 5.7<\/li>\n<li>Points per Game: 1.8<\/li>\n<li>Shooting Percentage: 45.5% (2FGP), 0.0% (3FGP)<\/li>\n<li>Total Rebounds per Game: 1.7<\/li>\n<li>Assists per Game: 0.3<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">C\/F Tristan Thompson is finalizing a deal with the Cleveland Cavaliers, CEO of Klutch Sports Rich Paul told <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheAthletic?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TheAthletic<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Stadium?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Stadium<\/a>. Thompson is set to return to Cleveland where he was part of 2016 NBA title, four Finals runs, now gives Cavs leadership and some frontcourt depth. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ayKEu3JOj1\">pic.twitter.com\/ayKEu3JOj1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/1701323059578216939?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 11, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Center\/forward Tristan Thompson is nearing a deal to return to the Cleveland Cavaliers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[92],"tags":[440,4870],"rumors":[135],"typology":[21],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-347416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-tristan-thompson-2","rumors-rumors-nba","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347416"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=347416"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=347416"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=347416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}