De'Andre Hunter Rumors

Yossi Gozlan: Seeing many trades on the timeline sending LeBron James to Cleveland. Cavaliers would need to do a 100% salary match and stay under the second apron due to aggregation. Example: Darius Garland, DeAndre Hunter, & Jarrett Allen works and leaves room for the $5.7 million MLE.

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Sources say Atlanta has shown a keen interest in retaining free agent guard Caris LeVert after bringing the veteran scorer to the Hawks as part of the return for trading De'Andre Hunter.

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Scott Agness: Bennedict Mathurin ejected in his first minute -- Flagrant 2 for striking De'Andre Hunter first. Technical foul on Hunter and Turner. That's bad. And a win for the Cavs. Mathurin led the Pacers in Game 3 with 23pts.

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James Boyd: #Pacers guard Bennedict Mathurin just got ejected for hitting De’Andre Hunter with “a closed fist” to his mid-section, according to the officials. Hunter and Myles Turner were given technicals. 4:32 left in the 1Q.

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Danny Cunningham: The Cleveland Cavaliers have no injuries to report for tomorrow’s Game 4 against Indiana. Darius Garland, Evan Mobley and De’Andre Hunter are all off the injury report.

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Of course that’s the story. And hopefully for the Cavs, it’s one that is, for all intents and purposes, over. A collective page has been turned, and the remainder of this series will feature strength on strength. “We (only) get one day recovery here, so a quick turnaround,” Atkinson said. “Just hope they can … be ready to go (Sunday).” Atkinson, of course, was talking about Darius Garland, Evan Mobley and De’Andre Hunter, who all returned Friday after missing at least one game — in Garland’s case, four in a row.

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Chris Fedor: #Cavs De'Andre Hunter told me before the game he didn't need a pain-killing injection. He also said he didn't think wearing any kind of wrap or protection on his injured thumb would help so he opted not to -- even though the base of his thumb by his palm is still really swollen

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Shams Charania: All three injured Cleveland Cavaliers – Darius Garland, Evan Mobley and De'Andre Hunter – will return tonight against the Indiana Pacers in Game 3 (7:30 pm ET, ESPN), sources tell ESPN.

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Danny Cunningham: #Cavs head coach Kenny Atkinson says “they shot around this morning. They’ll test it with Steve and the performance group pregame” on the availability of Darius Garland, Evan Mobley and De’Andre Hunter.

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Tony East: Tyrese Haliburton not on the Game 3 injury report after his wrist was sore during/after Game 2. Evan Mobley, De'Andre Hunter, and Darius Garland all questionable.

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There is optimism that all three of the Cleveland Cavaliers’ injured star players, including All-Star guard Darius Garland, who has missed the last four games, will try to play Game 3 Friday against the Indiana Pacers, two league sources told The Athletic. “I don’t think he has a choice,” one league source who is close to the Cavs said of Garland, who hasn’t played since Game 2 of the first round.

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A league source with knowledge of the Cavs’ workout Thursday said the swelling on Hunter’s injured thumb has subsided, whereas Mobley and Garland were moving as though they’re trying to play through lower leg injuries.

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Danny Cunningham: #Cavs head coach Kenny Atkinson said that today's practice was more of a shootaround than a real practice, but that Darius Garland, De'Andre Hunter and Evan Mobley all got some reps. Nothing was live, but they all did something.

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Bob Finnan: Darius Garland (toe), Evan Mobley (ankle) and De'Andre Hunter (thumb) remain questionable for Game 3.

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