Before the season started, it would have felt like a disaster for the Cleveland Cavaliers to trade De'Andre Hunter so quickly. One would have thought that does not happen without an absolute worst-case scenario during the campaign. The Cavs aren't quite at that level, but there may be reason to move him after all.
Matt Moore reported, "Among the things I tend to squint skeptically at is when someone says ‘that guy wants out bad.’ ... But there’s a lot of smoke around the idea that De'Andre Hunter, or at least his representation, would prefer he be somewhere else.