The Cleveland Cavaliers already project to have a large payroll in the 2025-26 campaign, and they haven’t even re-signed guards Sam Merrill and Ty Jerome, both of whom were valuable pieces off the pine for them this season.
As such, the Cavs have some options they need to explore this offseason, and it appears that some trade action could be on the table.
Cleveland wing Isaac Okoro could be a trade candidate. However, one of the NBA’s other 29 teams needs to be interested in acquiring Okoro in order for the Cavaliers to make a trade happen, and according to Cavaliers insider Chris Fedor, they’re struggling to find anyone with “legitimate interest” in Okoro.
Fedor also said that the Cavaliers have had discussions about forward Dean Wade. Wade wasn’t a huge factor during Cleveland’s playoff run this year after he started 30 games over 59 total appearances in the regular season. He averaged just 1.7 points per game in the 2025 NBA Playoffs.
From everything that I’m told, they’re having a hard time finding anybody that has legitimate interest in Isaac Okoro unless Isaac also comes with some kind of sweetener from the Cavs,” Fedor said.
From everything that I’ve heard, the Cavs have had discussions about Dean Wade,” Fedor said. “And do they want to see if they can use him and something else to see if they can get assets back, different kinds of assets back, or different kinds of players back in return
