Cleveland Cavaliers D-League Team Gets A General Manager; Still Needs A Name

by Scott Schroeder on Jul 14, 2025 9:19 AM EDT in D-League Coaching News

The Cleveland Cavaliers decided to buy D-League team last week. Without any NBA news happening due to the lockout, their new team in Canton will seemingly be the team's focus for the time being.

The first move was making Wes Wilcox, current Director of Player Personnel for the Cavs, the Canton team's general manager as well. This isn't surprising as I suggested it before the purchase was even made official, but is a good start for the franchise.

"Having Wes in this role is another reflection of the synergy and connectivity that owning and operating our own D-League team in Canton provides," Cavs GM Chris Grant said in a press release. "As Wes has been an integral member of our staff for the past eight years, it enhances the opportunity for us to extend our team and organizational culture further into the player development process. Wes has been intricately involved in the D League evolution over the last several years and the Canton franchise has already and will continue to, greatly benefit from his knowledge and experience."

Now that the team has a general manager in place, the team will next need to hire a new head coach -- and, more excitingly, pick a team name.

If anyone has any good ideas for Canton's team name, please submit them here as the current suggestions are underwhelming at best.

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No compensation, what the hell.

That sucks.

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by Cup Noodles on Jul 14, 2025 2:32 PM EDT reply actions

For...?

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by Scott Schroeder on Jul 14, 2025 3:45 PM EDT up reply actions

If the team chooses a name submitted by a fan. A small reward would be pretty cool, I’d think. But that’s just me.

Fuck Joe Girardi and Sergio Mitre.

by Cup Noodles on Jul 15, 2025 4:23 PM EDT up reply actions

Oh

Yeah, but it’d also be kind of cool to know you named a sports team.

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by Scott Schroeder on Jul 15, 2025 5:29 PM EDT up reply actions

I really hope more teams do this and eventually it turns into a farm system like baseball

Not in the sense of bring someone up for a game and send back, but more to develop young players and bring them up on off-season or right after trade deadline, or a injured player can come back slowly.

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by ChewyFL on Jul 14, 2025 5:32 PM EDT reply actions

This article might be of interest to you.

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by Scott Schroeder on Jul 14, 2025 11:17 PM EDT up reply actions

hahaha promoting yourself nice

Just kidding already read it and loved it. I love would to see this happen but long from this even being insight. Every team would need a Dteam to start then salary problems. I really do think this would increase interest and hopefully make the rebuilding process shorten.

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by ChewyFL on Jul 15, 2025 4:48 PM EDT up reply actions

They're at least another CBA away

But I agree, it would be nice.

And does it count as promoting myself if the link is to a different website? I say no.

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by Scott Schroeder on Jul 15, 2025 5:30 PM EDT up reply actions

I agree.

I link all the stuff I write here so my friends at BSotS can read them and offer feedback. In this case, you were just trying to help Chewy out.

You could also have completely avoided this by linking to my FanShot that links to the story.

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by Omaha Sun on Jul 15, 2025 8:59 PM EDT up reply actions

i was joking

sorry guys

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by ChewyFL on Jul 15, 2025 9:50 PM EDT up reply actions

I'm sure Scott knew that.

I do the same to him all the time.

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by Omaha Sun on Jul 15, 2025 9:58 PM EDT up reply actions

Ha

My sarcasm doesn’t come off so well all the time on the internet. We’re still friends, right?

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by Scott Schroeder on Jul 16, 2025 1:09 PM EDT up reply actions

Nope.

I think you burned that bridge forever. There goes one of our 7 readers.

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by Omaha Sun on Jul 17, 2025 3:30 PM EDT up reply actions

We average over 1,000 per day!

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by Scott Schroeder on Jul 17, 2025 8:26 PM EDT up reply actions

OK, 7 commenters.

Realize I’m probably half of those views though.

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by Omaha Sun on Jul 18, 2025 5:16 PM EDT up reply actions

Commenters, Schmommenters.

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by Scott Schroeder on Jul 18, 2025 7:12 PM EDT up reply actions

sorry im back was on vacation

man if i leave it just you too talking to each other

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by ChewyFL on Jul 19, 2025 5:26 PM EDT up reply actions

The Cleveland cavaliers have a D league team and they have even appointed a general manager. The question is, will the team be as good as expected or will it be a flaw?

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by Kizzee on Jul 14, 2025 8:51 PM EDT reply actions