Jae Crowder told reporters Thursday that he informed his mother he was being traded to the Cleveland Cavaliers just minutes before she died.
"There was a lot going on that day, obviously," Crowder said at his introductory press conference, per MassLive.com's Jay King. "The good thing about the whole ordeal was I was able to whisper it to my mom before she passed. I was with her. I just told her, 'We're going to Cleveland.' And like five minutes later she passed."
According to Cleveland.com's Joe Vardon, Crowder's mother, Helen Thompson, died of cancer Aug.