Cavs Offseason Day 1

Fire Paxson? Check

Fire Malones? Check

Well, surprise surprise, both Paxon and Malone won't be back next year. Paxson was an okay GM, he had some good drafts, like Boozer, Andre Miller and LeBron (but that was a no brainer). He also had some really shitty drafts, like Trajdon Langdon, Segana Diop (which was really coach John Lucas's pick). And he has some incomplete drafts, like Dajuan Wagner and Luke Jackson, who've been hurt their entire careers.

But I think it's some of the other moves he made that really got him fired, they've used three first round picks on basically the same player in Luke Jackson (drafted 1st round 2004), Sasha Pavlovic (traded 1st round 2005) and Jiri Welsch (traded 1st round 07). Terrific.

Also some of the signings the Cavs made are baffling. 2 offseasons ago they signed Kevin Ollie to a 5 year 15 million dollar contract, the Denver Nuggets gave the same deal to (Clevelander and former Cavalier) Earl Boykins (who the Cavs looked at too). Oops, wrong choice there. The Boozer fiasco will be layed at his feet, but that was really Gordan Gund's move. He recovered nicely, picking up Gooden and Varejao, but it wasn't enough. Actually the best bench signing this year was by Paul Silas in Tractor Traylor (who I really hope we re-sign).

This is the first of two make or break offseasons for the Cavaliers, I'm very interested in seeing how they do.