Jarrett Allen is barely closing games anymore for the Cleveland Cavaliers, and he's being paid a premium for that.
Jarrett Allen is a fantastic NBA player, and a longtime constant of the Cleveland Cavaliers, but his role and importance are both quietly diminishing in Northeast Ohio. That is what Kenny Atkinson's rotations suggest thus far, at the very least.
The idea of Allen no longer being a mainstay and necessity in the grit and grind of the fourth quarter was floated around during the offseason in Cavs circles.