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Does Love give them a better chance to win right now? Yeah. Next season for sure. However, the fact of the matter is that the Cavs could both compete for championships and keep a really good player for the long haul at the same time.

They will end up getting Kevin Love, a proven all star, for 5-6 years at a minimum. Sounds like a pretty long time to me.

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Not even mentioning the fact that Wiggins would be on his rookie contract, providing extra cap space for the Cavs to build an even better roster (not having to pay Love $22M/year).

No, they wouldnt have had extra cap space. Replace Kevin Loves now 16m/year contract with Andrew Wiggins 5.5 mill contract last season and they are still over the cap. Even last year before they traded for him they were already over the cap after getting LeBron. They had to dump a shite ton of players to acquire him. That was the whole point of why they HAD to do the trade because they wouldn't be able to wait a year and sign him as a free agent because no room.

It's hard to predict what "could" have happened but it's a fact they couldn't have gotten any nice pieces as FA. Obviously could have still done S&T though. Would have had to ship off other contributors though obviously..

Also. Without Love, that makes TT the starting PF and Anthony Bennet the backup. Then at center you have Verajo and Tyler Zeller.

We can assume Verajo still would have gotten injured so then their front court would have been Zeller, Bennet, and TT. Not to good huh?

Next up, what does Wiggins play? They will want to get him major moves bc he is the future that you think he is. I think he should be a SF but he would definitely play SG for the Cavs.

Season would have started off with Waiters starting and Wiggins coming off the bench and the roles might have switched eventually.

If those 2 are playing SG, there isnt a very high chance they want to do the trade for JR Smith and Iman Shumpert bc they also had Mike Miller and Harris. They don't need 4 SGs. So thats 1 trade that wouldnt happen.

Next, we have Mozgov. I think no matter what they would have got them because they wanted him all along. The injury to Verajo forced their hand to give 2 first round picks but its definitely worth it.

So yeah. With Wiggins, you don't even have the same team as the one that played in the finals so to say he would take them to the finals is kind of a long shot.

Let's not forget also, before the trade for JR Smith, Mozgov, and Shumpert they were 19-20.

Imagine what their record would have been without Kevin Love??

They would have had a real shite season last year without that trade man. You can't just plug in Wiggins for Love and assume all the other pieces are the same bc they aren't.

Then, the next season they still wouldn't have room to sign any FAs and TT would have gotten a full max deal this summer (because he was the starter and probably would have better numbers and be there other "future" star.. oh and his agent is Lebrons BFF).

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Most people think Wiggins is going to be a really good, all-star caliber player for a lot of years. I just think it was shortsighted on the Cavs' part. People will argue that they HAVE to look short-term, because they're in a win-now mode. My opinion is that they'll be competing for (and winning) championship(s) for the next 2-3 years no matter who is around LeBron and Irving. And I don't see how anyone can disagree with that.

Yeah. People think that. But nobody KNOWS he will be a star. and to say it is shortsighted man.. Really?

LeBron will be there til he retires and you got TT, Kevin Love, and Kyrie for ATLEAST another 4-5 years.

Cavs made the smart choice. If Wiggins ends up becoming the next Kobe Bryant, I might sing a different tune. But until then... I aint worried about it.

Also, he wouldn't be an all star for the Cavs for another half decade if he stayed. Kyrie and LeBron would be the #1 and #2 guys for the next 4+ years without question.