The Cleveland Cavaliers have signed center Marques Bolden to a 10-day contract.

Bolden (6-10, 249) has played in 28 games (24 starts) this season for the Canton Charge, the Cavaliers’ exclusively owned and operated NBA G League team, averaging 9.1 points on .636 shooting from the field, 6.3 rebounds and 1.4 blocks in 18.3 minutes per game. He was also a member of the Cavaliers’ roster for the 2019 preseason and NBA Summer League. Bolden originally went undrafted in the 2019 NBA Draft after playing three years collegiately at Duke, where he averaged 3.8 points on .573 shooting from the floor, 3.3 rebounds and 1.1 blocks in 13.6 minutes per game.

The Cavaliers’ roster now stands at 17, including two Two-Way players.

The Cleveland Cavaliers have signed forward Alfonzo McKinnie to a second 10-day contract.

McKinnie (6-8, 215) signed his first 10-day contract with the Cavaliers on January 9. He has played in 29 games (one start) for Cleveland this season, averaging 3.7 points and 2.7 rebounds in 13.1 minutes per contest. Over his three-year NBA career, the Wisconsin-Green Bay product owns career averages of 4.0 points and 2.9 rebounds in 12.5 minutes per game over 115 career contests (six starts) with the Cavaliers, Toronto Raptors and Golden State Warriors.

The Cleveland Cavaliers will sign Tyler Cook to a second 10-day contract.

Cook has appeared in eight games this season for the Cavaliers.

The Cleveland Cavaliers will sign Matt Mooney to a Two-Way contract.

Mooney went undrafted out of Texas Tech in 2019.

Mooney signed an Exhibit 10 contract with the Memphis Grizzlies in September. He was waived about a month later and has been playing with the Memphis Hustle of the G League. Mooney is averaging 12.6 points, 4.5 assists, 3.3 rebounds and 1.7 steals in the G League.

Tyronn Lue admitted he wishes he still was head coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers.

“Yeah, I do,” Lue told Joe Vardon of The Athletic after a full 12-second pause to consider the question. “What I tried to build there, I think the culture I tried to set … I thought we could do it together. Koby (Altman) being a young GM, me being a young coach, having young players. I won a championship there, so you have a chance and an opportunity to do something different, and you should have that leeway to be able to go through a couple challenging years. To win a championship and go to the (NBA) Finals should buy you a little time, you would think.”

Lue is now an assistant coach with the Los Angeles Clippers.

Lue believes his firing at the start of the 18-19 season was unwarranted. 

“I don’t think it should’ve happened,” Lue said. “When it happened, I just kind of … It puts everything in perspective. You’ve got to continue to keep working, it’s a business — you’ve got to understand that. It was tough. To win the first championship ever in Cleveland history, and then make the finals (the next two years) and then get fired six games in, it’s hard to swallow and it’s tough to deal with. You start thinking about things like what you could have done different or if it was going to happen if you did anything different anyway.

“You don’t see that very often where a coach goes to three straight finals and wins a championship, and gets fired (the season immediately after the third finals), six games into (the season). You probably have never seen it.”

Dylan Windler will miss the remainder of the 2019-20 season due to ongoing symptoms related to his left lower leg stress reaction.

After an extended period of rehabilitation and treatment over the last several months, it was determined the injury will now require surgery. A timetable for his return to basketball activities will be established post-surgery, which is scheduled for January 21.

Windler was the 26th overall pick by the Cleveland Cavaliers in the 2019 NBA Draft.

The Cleveland Cavaliers have waived Levi Randolph.

Randolph was recently signed to a Two-Way contract. 

Randolph has averaged 15.6 points, 5.8 rebounds and 3.0 assists in 36.2 minutes per game in the G League this season.

The Cleveland Cavaliers have signed forward Tyler Cook to a 10-day contract.

Cook has been assigned to the Canton Charge, the Cavaliers’ exclusively owned and operated NBA G League team, and will be available for Canton’s road contest against the Wisconsin Herd tonight.

Cook (6-9, 255) was claimed off waivers by the Cavaliers as a Two-Way player on Oct. 19 and had his contract converted into a standard NBA contract on Jan. 3. He played in six games for Cleveland this season and averaged 2.0 points in 2.8 minutes before being waived by the team on Jan. 6. Cook has also played in 15 games (four starts) with the Charge, averaging 12.6 points on .602 shooting from the field and 6.3 rebounds in 20.7 minutes per game. He originally went undrafted in the 2019 NBA Draft out of the University of Iowa, where he played in 93 contests (92 starts) over three seasons, averaging 14.1 points and 6.7 rebounds in 28.0 minutes per game.

The Cleveland Cavaliers have signed forward Alfonzo McKinnie to a 10-day contract.

McKinnie (6-8, 215) played in 23 games for Cleveland this season, averaging 2.7 points and 2.1 rebounds in 11.0 minutes per contest before being waived by the team on January 6. Over his three-year NBA career, the Wisconsin-Green Bay product owns career averages of 3.9 points and 2.8 rebounds in 12.0 minutes per game over 109 career contests (five starts) with the Cavaliers, Toronto Raptors and Golden State Warriors.

The Cavaliers’ roster now stands at 16, including two Two-Way players.

John Beilein apologized to Cleveland Cavaliers players for saying that they were no longer playing "like a bunch of thugs," saying that he meant to use the word "slugs."

The incident took place during a film session on Wednesday.

"I didn't realize that I had said the word 'thugs,' but my staff told me later I did and so I must have said it. I meant to say slugs, as in slow-moving. We weren't playing hard before, and now we were playing harder. I meant it as a compliment. That's what I was trying to say," Beilein told Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN.

Koby Altman was alerted to the language following the film session, then reached out to Beilein to clarify his comments.

Altman is currently in the process of gathering context and details of the film session.