One week after the Cleveland Cavaliers and Boston Celtics seemingly completed a blockbuster trade in which they swapped All-Star point guards Kyrie Irving and Isaiah Thomas, the trade is still hanging in limbo and now the Cavs reportedly want at least one more first-round draft pick included.
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Cavaliers reportedly are 'determined' to get another first-round pick from Celtics to complete blockbuster Irving-Thomas trade
The Cavaliers want more compensation to complete the trade involving Kyrie Irving and Isaiah Thomas.
According to Adrian Wojnarowski, the Cavs are "
Jaylen Brown or Jayson Tatum, the third picks in the 2016 and 2017 NBA Drafts, respectively. However, that may have just been posturing as Wojnarowski did say that was "very unlikely" to happen and suggested the Cavs were just angling for one of the Celtics many first-round draft picks.
In addition to the Celtics' own first-round picks, they also have one coming from the Philadelphia 76ers in either 2018 or 2019 (as part of the trade for the 2017 No. 1 pick), another one coming from the Memphis Grizzlies in 2019, 2020, of 2021, and a potential first-rounder from the Los Angeles Clippers in 2019, 2020, or 2021.
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Thomas initially injured his hip in March during the regular season and missed two games. He re-injured the hip during the Eastern Conference semifinals and eventually missed the final three games of the Eastern Conference finals against the Cleveland Cavaliers.
After the trade, Celtics general manager Danny Ainge confirmed that the hip was still an issue for Thomas and that he would likely miss the start of the season, but that he "should be fine" at some point during the season. Thomas and the Celtics opted against surgery on the hip.
Thomas was emphatic during an interview with ESPN on Tuesday that he would be fine.
"I'm going to be back, and I'm going to be the same player again," Thomas told ESPN. "No doctor has told me anything different than that."
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