{"id":512248,"date":"2026-08-29T08:46:54","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T06:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=512248"},"modified":"2026-08-29T08:38:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T06:38:06","slug":"cleveland-cavaliers-waive-cam-whitmore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/cleveland-cavaliers-waive-cam-whitmore\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleveland Cavaliers waive Cam Whitmore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Cleveland Cavaliers have waived Cam Whitmore. According to Michael Scotto of HoopsHype, Cleveland has decided to move on from the 22-year-old forward, who was selected with the 20th overall pick in the 2023 NBA Draft.<\/p>\n<p>Whitmore has played three NBA seasons with the Houston Rockets and Washington Wizards, averaging 10.5 points per game while shooting 45% from the field and 35% from three-point range in 17.3 minutes per game.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Cleveland Cavaliers have waived Cam Whitmore, league sources told <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hoopshype?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@hoopshype<\/a>. Whitmore, the 20th pick of the 2023 NBA Draft, has averaged 10.5 points on 45% from the field and 35% from 3-point range in 17.3 minutes during three NBA seasons with the Rockets and Wizards. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/y4FZJjhbhK\">pic.twitter.com\/y4FZJjhbhK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Michael Scotto (@MikeAScotto) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MikeAScotto\/status\/2093447870850490819?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 28, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former No. 20 overall pick in the 2023 NBA Draft has been waived by Cleveland after three seasons with the Rockets and Wizards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":178,"featured_media":372531,"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":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-512248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"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\/512248","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\/178"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512248"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=512248"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=512248"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=512248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}