{"id":481639,"date":"2026-01-31T10:25:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T09:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=481639"},"modified":"2026-01-31T10:25:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T09:25:48","slug":"cavs-giannis-angle-mobley-is-the-headline-piece-but-no-in-season-shakeup-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/cavs-giannis-angle-mobley-is-the-headline-piece-but-no-in-season-shakeup-expected\/","title":{"rendered":"Cavs\u2019 Giannis angle: Mobley is the \u201cheadline piece,\u201d but no in-season shakeup expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"2027\" data-end=\"2515\">As the Giannis rumor mill keeps spinning, <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Chris Fedor<\/span><\/span> is cited as indicating that Mobley \u2014 the reigning Defensive Player of the Year \u2014 is the type of centerpiece that would immediately command Milwaukee\u2019s attention. <br data-start=\"2310\" data-end=\"2313\" \/><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Brian Windhorst<\/span><\/span> echoed the idea on <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Brian Windhorst &amp; The Hoop Collective<\/span><\/span>, framing Mobley as the natural foundation of a Cavaliers offer.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2517\" data-end=\"2939\">However, Cleveland has shown no appetite for a drastic in-season roster reset, with blockbuster swings typically reserved for the offseason once teams can re-balance the full roster picture. <br data-start=\"2747\" data-end=\"2750\" \/>With the <strong data-start=\"2759\" data-end=\"2775\">Feb. 5, 2026<\/strong> deadline looming and Giannis\u2019 situation still fluid, the chatter remains more \u201ctheoretical framework\u201d than imminent action.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2941\" data-end=\"3017\"><em data-start=\"2941\" data-end=\"2972\">ESPN \/ Hoops Rumors \/ Reuters<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reports suggest Evan Mobley is the kind of asset the Milwaukee Bucks would have to consider in any Giannis Antetokounmpo talks<\/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":[175],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-481639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","rumors-nba-rumors","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/Cleveland-Cavaliers.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481639","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=481639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481639\/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=481639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481639"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=481639"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=481639"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=481639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}