Although Cleveland Cavaliers guard Darius Garland already did his part in shutting down trade rumors by expressing his desire to keep going on with the Cavs, there’s just no stopping people from coming up with potential trade scenarios.
Trade scenario has Darius Garland going from the Cleveland Cavaliers to the Orlando Magic
Garland is one of the subjects in a recent NBA trade ideas piece by Greg Swartz of Bleacher Report, where the Cavaliers star gets sent to the Orlando Magic.
In the trade scenario, Garland and rookie big man Jaylon Tyson is packaged by Cleveland for the Magic’s trio of Jalen Suggs, Wendell Carter Jr. and Cole Anthony.
Darius Garland is the perfect solution, a 24-year-old who can grow with the franchise and has averaged 20.6 points, 7.7 assists and shot 38.9 percent from three over the past three seasons.
A starting five of Garland, Caldwell-Pope, Franz Wagner, Banchero and Jonathan Isaac with Anthony Black, Moritz Wagner, Gary Harris, Jett Howard, Tristan da Silva, Tyson (the Cavs’ first-round pick this summer), Goga Bitadze and others would make the Magic a force in the East for the next decade.
Interestingly, Garland and the Cavs were the ones to eliminate the Magic from the 2024 NBA Playoffs, though, he did not play exactly well in that first-round series, having shot just 40.2 percent.
Garland has a live contract that will not expire until the end of the 2027-28 NBA season. He will be earning at least $36.7 million in each of the next four seasons.
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