You couldn't be more wrong. Cleveland will do everything in its power to keep Boozer. If they don't like him, they will sign n trade him somewhere ELSE, or they will trade him midseason. As for their cap number, yo uare wrong again. They are a couple of million under the cap. Throw in our 6.99M, and you have yourself 8.99M. The 1.01M can be made up in the second portion of a trade with us, or by sending a tiny contract to a team under the cap. Also, about the fact that they can offer the MLE, once again, you're wrong. They are 2M under the cap, so they can't offer the MLE, so what they can in fact offer is whatever they're allowed under the "Early Bird" rights - which is roughly equal in dollars to the MLE in this case. It would probably cost them to tear up the team, but they will make it up by trading Boozer midseason.