The Cleveland Cavaliers are starting a process of "uprooting veterans" on their roster in order to accumulate draft picks and young assets, according to Adrian Wojnarowski.

The team traded Jordan Clarkson in exchange for Dante Exum and 2 second-round picks on Monday night.

The Cavs also created a $3.83 million trade exception in the deal.

The Cavs are also projected to have more than $28 million in cap space for free agency. 

The Utah Jazz have agreed to acquire Jordan Clarkson from the Cleveland Cavaliers for Dante Exum and two second round picks.

The Jazz hope Clarkson will give the team a lift with scoring off the bench.

Exum has struggled to stay healthy during his career.

The Jazz will send Cleveland 2022 (via San Antonio) and 2023 (via Golden State) second-round picks.

Clarkson arrives with a $13.4 million expiring contract. Exum has two years, $19.2 million left on his contract.

The Cleveland Cavaliers are unlikely to generate a robust market for Kevin Love as they look to trade him.

"I think you're looking at a marketplace where they'll probably get a protected first round pick and maybe an expiring contract and then maybe a throw-in player," said Adrian Wojnarowski.

Wojnarowski also opined that Love is at the stage of his career where he's likely the third or fourth best player on a contending team.

"I think Kevin Love is ready to go," said Wojnarowski of leaving the Cavaliers.

The Cleveland Cavaliers are reportedly looking for a first-round pick for Kevin Love, league sources told Jason Lloyd of The Athletic.

Sources add that the Cavs will have difficulty trading Love to the his 4-year, $120 million contract. Teams are asking for a first-round pick from the Cavs to absorb the rest of Love's deal.

The Cavs are also open to trading everyone on their roster outside of Darius Garland in exchange for first-round picks. 

Kevin Love would prefer getting traded to the Portland Trail Blazers, league sources told Kevin O'Connor of The Ringer.

O'Connor also mentions the Nuggets and the Suns as potential teams that could trade for Love.

A potential deal for Love could also include Tristan Thompson, who is available in a deal.

The Blazers are expected to pursue Danilo Gallinari to fill their power forward position.

A report surfaced over the weekend that the Cleveland Cavaliers are prepared to listen to trade offers for Kevin Love.

"Let me just say that I think the Cavs' phone lines were always open on Kevin Love," said Brian Windhorst on his podcast.

Windhorst suggests Love's relationship with John Beilein has expedited Cleveland's timeline on a trade.

"Love showed up for training camp two days before. Kevin was living his best life out in the world. I think that was a message right there," said Windhorst. "He's clearly unhappy."

Love has three seasons and $90 million remaining on his contract with the Cavaliers.

Shams Charania of The Athletic reports that Love prefers a trade to a contending team.

Tristan Thompson and Larry Nance Jr. refuted a story from The Athletic centered around the frustrations of Cleveland Cavaliers players with first-year coach John Beilein's tactics.

Thompson, who added that Beilein was "great for development," said that the team couldn't have a culture of players going behind the coach's back.

"If you're going to build a culture and a family, you can't have that chatty Patty [stuff] going on. That is whack to me. Everyone has got to look in the mirror. There's only so much coach can do, and there's only so much we can do," said Thompson.

Nance echoed Thompson's statement about keeping certain comments in-house.

"Ideally you want to keep that in-house if there was those issues. I guess that's today's NBA. ... I've never had an issue with a coach in my career, him being no different," said Nance.

Beilein added that he's only received support from his players.

"We've met ... and it's like, 'Coach, keep doing what you're doing because we really need this. We need accountability. We need to play harder, stronger, tougher. Don't stop what you're doing.'" 

The Cleveland Cavaliers are willing to listen to trade offers for Kevin Love, league sources told Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN.

The Cavs are looking for a trade package involving young assets or future draft picks.

The 31-year-old Love has 3 years and $90 million left on his contract.

Players who signed a free agent deal last offseason become eligible to be traded on December 15th.

Several players on the Cleveland Cavaliers are bristling at the tactics of John Beilein, numbers sources tell Joe Vardon and Shams Charania of The Athletic.

Beilein is treating this season like he and his players are in college.

Several players are beginning to look past Beilein and towards J.B. Bickerstaff for guidance.

“Guys drowned out his voice, and when guys start searching for the next in line for help, I believe you’ve lost them,” one Cavs player said. 

“The little things become big things, and sometimes very big things,” another player said.

“Our assistants are definitely more prepared for the NBA,” a third said.

Beilein is in his first season working in the NBA in any capacity at the age of 66. Both veterans and young players are frustrated by Beilein's college environment. 

The Cleveland Cavaliers are interested in retaining Tristan Thompson after this season and making him part of the team's growing core, league sources told Chris Fedor of cleveland.com.

Thompson, who has impressed the organization with his hard work, is in the final year of his contract. He will be an unrestricted free agent after this season.

Fedor adds that there has yet to be any "real" conversations between Thompson's camp and the Cavs about a contract extension.