This trade with Orlando for Drew Gooden and two others seems to have ended any chance that Cleveland would match the offer sheet Carlos Boozer signed with Utah.

"We left the option open initially because we could," Cavaliers' general manager Jim Paxson said.

"Realistically, in the landscape of what happened to the teams that have room, it wasn't worth wasting my time on."

Meanwhile, coach Paul Silas may have come up with a simple solution to his backcourt mess:  He might play point guards Jeff McInnis and Eric Snow together.

"There's a lot of things we could do with them," Silas said. "Certainly, that's one of them. I like ball players. I don't put labels on players. I played David Wesley and Baron Davis together with the Hornets."