Cavaliers Trade Rumors: Jarrett Allen Drawing Offers; Mavs Among Teams Interested

Teams around the NBA are reportedly interested in Jarrett Allen.

According to Chris Fedor of Cleveland.com, the Dallas Mavericks are among the teams who have reached out to the Cleveland Cavaliers regarding the big man's availability. However, Cleveland has turned away every offer to this point.

Fedor listed the Toronto Raptors and Atlanta Hawks as other potential suitors, but the Mavericks are particularly interesting with the No. 10 overall pick and Tim Hardaway Jr. potentially available.

Cleveland inquired about Hardaway at February's trade deadline, and he would give the team someone who could hit from the outside and take advantage of the spacing created by playing alongside Donovan Mitchell and Evan Mobley.

And Allen could work in pick-and-rolls with Luka Dončić and Kyrie Irving if he was in Dallas.

Yet Fedor emphasized that the Cavaliers are not actively looking to move Allen, which follows after president of basketball operations Koby Altman said during his end-of-season press conference that there were no plans to trade anyone away from the core.

There is plenty to like about Allen's game.

He is a 25-year-old big man who was an All-Star in 2021-22 and is coming off an excellent season in 2022-23. He averaged 14.3 points, 9.8 rebounds and 1.2 blocks per game while shooting 64.4 percent from the field for a Cleveland team that reached the playoffs.

Still, it would be understandable if the Cavaliers had some concern.

The New York Knicks consistently exploited their two-bigs lineup when Allen and Mobley were on the floor together and ended up cruising past Cleveland in five games. It was a disappointing end to what was a promising season, and perhaps the front office may have seen it as a calling to make a move or two this offseason.

Perhaps that would mean moving Allen for the right deal, but the Cavaliers have reportedly turned away all advances to this point.