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June 25, 2011The Cleveland Cavaliers may have not addressed their current hole at the center position via the recently held NBA Draft, but Ryan Hollins has picked up his player option for the 2011-12 season, a source tells WFNY.
At 26-years of age, the athletic Hollins continues to be extremely raw on both ends of the floor, but showed flashes of brilliance during latter periods of the 2010-11 season. A recent nominee for WFNY Performance of the Year, Hollins averaged a mere 5.3 points and 2.7 rebounds per game over the course of the season but put up averages of 10.3 points and 1.4 blocks per game over his final eight contests.
Per the source, Hollins decided to pick up his option approximately two weeks ago, choosing to delay free agency and play for the Cavaliers regardless of the team potentially adding peer-based competition via Thursday’s draft. With the current NBA collective bargaining agreement in limbo, the seven-footer did not want to risk getting offered substantially less than the $2.5 million he is due in the final year of his contract.
Baring cataclysmic changes to the Cavaliers roster, Hollins will come off of the bench behind veteran big man Anderson Varejao for the second consecutive season.
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A 26 year old should not be still considered “raw”.
This is depressing news.
Ita not awful. we are still very low in the amount of bigs on the roster. hollins adds depth and will hopefully continue to play at the level he was in the last quarter of hte season.
In related news, Ryan Hollins is a fan of money.
LOL- good comments
I gotta say I kinda like having Ryan Hollins on our team for one more year to prove his worth and with the changes. He always seems to play nervous and timid- hopefully that’s not the case anyomore. When he’s included/makes himself a presence, he’s a solid player: the shots he takes are all high % shots (dunks and in paint). With Kyrie on the team, I feel that’s a good thing for Hollins. I just see endless lobs from Kyrie being tossed up to Thompson and Hollins, so I’m cool he stays. I mean hell, IMO, drafting Jonas V. would have been like getting a Ryan Hollins who can’t jump as high, so why not keep the one we have.
Scenario 1: NBA star leaves his team in search of more money and pisses off an entire fanbase.
Scenario 2: NBA journeymen stays with his team in search of more money and still manages to piss off the entire fanbase.
Hooray double standards!