Cleveland Cavaliers GM Danny Ferry will look to do more with his summer this year as opposed to years past.

If you’re at all like me, you can recall being a young kid and coming back to school in the fall, and on the first day of class, your teacher had no homework to give out, so instead he/she would instruct us to write an essay detailing how we spent our summer vacations. If you’re even more like me, then your essays as a young child detailed a more active summer than any of Danny Ferry’s essays would have been these past 2 years.

After the infamous and lamentable summer of 2005, the Cavaliers have never been in a position to do much in their off seasons. Tied down with lengthy and pricey contracts, Ferry was unable to do much of anything to bolster this team and make it any better. The summer of 2006, Danny Ferry managed to bring in David Wesley (he of the “worst layup in basketball history” fame) and Scot Pollard. One summer later, he signed Devin Brown (a nice complimentary piece, I suppose, but hardly the kind of player who was going to make a real difference on this team). It’s real easy to accuse of Ferry of not being proactive in those summers, but the fact of the matter was, thanks to Ferry’s bad signings the one summer he was actually active, his hands were tied. No cap space and only the MLE at his disposal, Danny Ferry had to try to make do with what he had.   [Read more...]