Luke Travers reportedly joining Cavs on two-way deal
Travers will take the third and final two-way spot in Cleveland.
Luke Travers will be joining the Cleveland Cavaliers on a two-way deal according to Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN. Travers was the 56th pick in the 2022 NBA Draft and will be 23-years-old at the start of next season.
Travers spent the last three seasons playing in Australia’s NBL. He averaged 7.9 points, five rebounds, and 1.9 assists per game on .490/.329/.692 shooting splits during his five professional seasons in Australia. Last season with Melbourne he averaged 12 points, 7.6 rebounds, and 1.9 assists on .516/.327/.671 shooting splits.
How Travers’s game translates to the NBA is still an open question. He was a useful role player in the NBL, but it’s fair to wonder how much of that translates over. At 6’6”, Travers will likely not be able to play power forward like he did last season for Melbourne. This will require him to be a much more capable shooter and ball handler than he’s shown in his brief stints with the Cavs in Summer League.
Those concerns aside, this is how you should be using your two-way spots. Travers does have some upside and plays a position of need for the Cavs. He joins Emoni Bates and JT Thor as Cleveland’s two-way players. Bates and Travers will likely spend most of their playing time with the Cleveland Charge in the G League. Adding Travers as a two-way player also leaves three traditional roster spots open.
This move could also mean that Isaiah Mobley and Pete Nance’s time with the Cavaliers has come to an end. Both were on two-way deals last season.