{"id":478471,"date":"2026-01-12T11:03:29","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T10:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=478471"},"modified":"2026-01-12T11:03:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T10:03:29","slug":"cleveland-cavaliers-hopes-of-max-strus-return-suddenly-cloudy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/cleveland-cavaliers-hopes-of-max-strus-return-suddenly-cloudy\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleveland Cavaliers\u2019 hopes of Max Strus return suddenly cloudy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1438\" data-end=\"1697\">The <strong data-start=\"1442\" data-end=\"1455\">Cavaliers<\/strong> are still in a holding pattern with <strong data-start=\"1492\" data-end=\"1505\">Max Strus<\/strong>, out since the offseason because of a <strong data-start=\"1544\" data-end=\"1562\">Jones fracture<\/strong> in his foot. Within the organization and among fans, his return has quietly been viewed as the closest thing to an in-season pickup.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1699\" data-end=\"1944\">That logic is tied to fit: Strus provides spacing, movement, and volume shooting, and Cleveland is near the bottom in three-point accuracy. His profile as a career <strong data-start=\"1865\" data-end=\"1874\">36.8%<\/strong> three-point shooter is presented as a direct answer to that weakness.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1946\" data-end=\"2194\">On trades, the report points to harsh constraints: Cleveland carries the league\u2019s highest payroll and is the lone team in the <strong data-start=\"2072\" data-end=\"2088\">second apron<\/strong>. That makes deals restrictive, with incoming salary required to be equal to or less than what goes out.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1027\" data-end=\"1139\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hoopswire.com\/cavs-hopes-of-max-strus-return-suddenly-cloudy\/\">Source: <em data-start=\"1034\" data-end=\"1090\">Sam Amico<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cleveland Cavaliers keep waiting on Max Strus, sidelined since the offseason with a foot Jones fracture<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":372530,"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":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[179],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-478471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","typology-injury"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/Cleveland-Cavaliers.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478471","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=478471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478471"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=478471"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=478471"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=478471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}