The Cleveland Cavaliers have exercised their third-year team option on guard Collin Sexton.

Sexton (6-1, 192), the No. 8 overall pick in the 2018 NBA Draft by the Cavaliers, played in all 82 games (72 starts) in 2018-19, averaging 16.7 points, 2.9 rebounds and 3.0 assists in 31.8 minutes per contest. He went on to earn All-Rookie Second Team honors last season.

In his three appearances this season, Sexton is averaging 17.3 points, 3.3 rebounds and 2.0 assists in 30.2 minutes per contest. He is also shooting .438 from the three-point line.

Kyrie Irving became friends with Kevin Durant and DeAndre Jordan during the 2016 Olympics. Irving had just won a title with the Cleveland Cavaliers while Durant was coming off his decision to join the Golden State Warriors.

The three had endless conversations about basketball, including how LeBron James had orchestrated his own "friend group" with the Miami Heat with Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh.

On one of the final nights they had together during their Olympic run, Irving, Durant and Jordan toasted.

"Hey, this would be cool to do for real" Jordan recalls Irving saying.

"I asked him, 'What you mean by that?'" Jordan says, "and Ky said, 'Let's all get on the same team and play together.'"

Durant went on to win titles in 2017 and 2018. Irving requested a trade in 2017 from the Cavaliers and ended up on the Boston Celtics. Jordan left the Los Angeles Clippers for the Dallas Mavericks and eventually the New York Knicks in 18-19.

"The brotherhood was real," Irving says, "but circumstances kept us apart."

"There were times when you had to wonder, 'Is this ever going to really happen?"' Jordan says.

All three players became free agents in 2019.

"We all agreed," Jordan says, "'We gotta do this.'"

John Henson will miss the next 2-4 weeks with a strained right hamstring.

Henson suffered the injury during his Cavs debut on Saturday.

Henson will receive a $500,000 bonus if he appears in more than 75 games.

Cedi Osman has agreed to a four-year, $31 million contract extension with the Cleveland Cavaliers.

Osman was a second round pick in 2015 and joined the Cavaliers in 2017.

Osman's extension will start at $8.6 million and decreases each season.

David Griffin hopes to incorporate his experience dealing with a high profile situation as general manager of the Cleveland Cavaliers during the tenure of LeBron James, Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love to his new job with the New Orleans Pelicans and the budding career of Zion Williamson.

“We are on national TV 30 times this year in large measure because of the Zion phenomenon,” Griffin said. “Having been a part of a team with a phenomenon with LeBron, Kyrie [Irving] and Kevin [Love], it’s certainly been a learning experience that I hope we can utilize. The mistakes we made then, I hope we don’t make now. We didn’t ignore the noise well as a team. There was so much scrutiny that you didn’t know was going to come or proactively prepare for.

“But now we can be in front of a lot of things, although you wouldn’t know it by the way I handled the injury situation. But you control actively being in front of something.”

The Cleveland Cavaliers claimed Tyler Cook off waivers from the Denver Nuggets. Cook will remain on a two-way deal.

The Cavs also waived Marques Bolden and Jarrell Martin.

The Cleveland Cavaliers have waived guard Daniel Hamilton, forward Timothé Luwawu-Cabarrot, guard J.P. Macura and guard Sindarius Thornwell. 

Cleveland's roster now stands at 16.

Kevin Love is 31 and on a rebuilding team, but he wants to remain with the Cleveland Cavaliers.

Love chose to sign an extension with the Cavaliers in 2018 following the departure of LeBron James.

“I do want to be here. I always have,” Love told Chris Fedor in an exclusive one-on-one interview. “I say that knowing it’s the NBA and it’s a business. I think especially after seeing last year, the summer leading up to last year and this summer, the changeover is like unprecedented so you don’t know what is going to happen.

“If they decide to go completely young … and that could be the case, but it’s funny, my agent didn’t call me one time this summer to say, ‘Hey, you’re getting traded, there’s talks that this is happening.’ Of course, somehow it’s still out there and people are talking about, ‘Oh, Kevin would be great here or great there.’ I just keep it moving and try to do right by these guys because we have a good group.”