Kevin Love and LeBron James are both going to become free agents. No, Cleveland Cavaliers fans shouldn’t panic like crazy. And yes, we’re manipulating the concept of free agency here. Both players own player options for next season. Neither is expected to accept his. Love and LeBron will instead opt out and, in theory, be free to sign with any team. Per ESPN.com’s Brian Windhorst (h/t FanSided): As if the Golden State Warriors’ championship celebration on the Cavs’ floor Tuesday night wasn’t bad enough, the Cavs’ immediate future is troublesome: James, Kevin Love, Tristan Thompson, Iman Shumpert, J.R. Smith and Matthew Dellavedova could all be free agents by July 1. James, Love and Smith have player options for next season and all are expected to decline them. Thompson, Shumpert and Dellavedova are expected to receive qualifying offers from the Cavs and they will become restricted free agents, giving the team the right to match any offer they receive. And the extensions Kyrie Irving (five years, $90 million) and Anderson Varejao (two years, $20.3 million) signed last year are also set to kick in. First off, the Cavaliers are going to have another expensive summer. If they want to keep this exact core intact, it’ll cost a pretty penny, one whose beauty, as Windhorst notes, exceeds $100 million in value. Back to LeBron and Love, though. - See more at: http://thehoopdoctors.com/2015/06/kevin-love-lebron-both-expected-to-decline-player-options/
