Longtime Nuggets assistant Tim Grgurich and a George Karl confidant, is "unlikely" to return to the team this season, a league source said. Grgurich is close to Mark Warkentien, the former Denver executive who did not have his contract renewed.

The source said the Nuggets have reached out to former Cavaliers coach Mike Brown, but Brown plans to take a year off from coaching.

The Cavaliers are no longer interested in signing restricted free agent center Kyrylo Fesenko.

The Jazz have the right to match any offer sheet Fesenko signs with another club.

The Cavaliers are shopping for a backup center, according to Brian Windhorst of the Cleveland Plain-Dealer.

The team held a workout with free agents Earl Barron and Chris Hunter on Monday.

Cleveland is also having discussions with Jazz restricted free agent center Kyrylo Fesenko multiple league sources said.

Jawad Williams has decided to accept the Cavaliers' one-year qualifying offer and will sign it this week, agent Kevin Bradbury said.

The contract is for $1.02 million, but is not fully guaranteed.

Williams had talked with several other teams, including the San Antonio Spurs.

"Jawad has stated from day one that his desire is to stay home and be with the Cavs," Bradbury said in a text to The Plain Dealer. "Jawad did not want to hold out and wants to get to camp and help the team get back to the playoffs. He's excited to be coming home to Cleveland again."

Because the Cavaliers introduced new uniforms for the 10-11 season, they will be unable to wear their blue alternate.

NBA rules state that teams may not have an alternate uniform during the first two seasons after they have a new uniform scheme.

The Cavaliers have until next July to use their $14.5 million trade exception and their plan is to be patient and see what develops.

Because of the unique nature of the 2010 free agency, there are more teams with significant TPE's than in any other year in more than a decade.

In an interview with the Detroit Free-Press, Cavaliers' owner Dan Gilbert spoke about his controversial open letter released the night LeBron James announced his decision to sign with the Heat.

"No, not really," Gilbert said. "I just expressed what the Cleveland people were feeling. Unless you're from Cleveland and experienced what they have experienced since 1964, it's hard for the rest of the country to grasp."

Gilbert was subsequently fined by the NBA for the letter.

Cleveland hire of David Griffin will be their final addition to the front office for the 10-11 season.

The three executives who will make up the Cavs' front office will be General Manager Chris Grant, vice president of basketball operations Griffin and director of pro personnel Wes Wilcox.

Mavericks owner Mark Cuban commented on the LeBron James fiasco for the first time on Wednesday in an appearance on The Dunham and Miller Show on SportsRadio 1310 in Dallas.

"LeBron has every right to go wherever and do whatever, whatever team he wants to," Cuban said. "Going to the Heat was his choice, those guys working together. I don't even have a problem with the three of them working together, as long as they follow all of the NBA rules, which I think they did.

"Where I think LeBron made a mistake, was in how he did it. I don't even have a problem that he had the tv show. But it turned out to be the largest public humiliation in the history of sports. He humiliated the organization, he humiliated the state of Ohio, the city of Cleveland. All of a sudden he became a bad guy, he lost a billion dollars in brand equity, give or take a couple bucks here or there.

"I told his folks that I think he got bad advice. It's not about 'Can he move?' He can move, he can play for any team. I think he picked the wrong team (chuckles). There's a team in Dallas that could have used him and that would have been better served but it's his choice. But the way he did it I thought was just a huge mistake."

The Cavaliers have hired David Griffin as vice president of basketball operations.

Griffin accepted the job, according to ESPN.com's Ric Bucher, several weeks after turning down a front-office job with the Suns.