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The Clippers Traded Sam Dekker to the Cleveland Cavaliers: Why?

On Sunday afternoon, Adrian Wojnarowski reported that the Clippers had traded Sam Dekker to the Cleveland Cavaliers. Tuesday morning, we finally got the details, courtesy of Yahoo! Sports’ Shams Charania: the Clippers are sending Dekker, cash, and the rights to Renaldas Seibutis to to the Cavaliers in exchange for the rights to Vladimir Veremeenko.

We don’t know exactly how much cash the Clippers sent to Cleveland, but I’m guessing it’s around $1.25M—the difference between Dekker’s $2.76M salary and the $1.51M veteran’s minimum.

As far as the other players involved, neither has any prayer of an NBA future.