Conversely, he is only 24 and making less than $1 million. A team obtaining him would hold a team option for next season (also for less than $1 million), meaning he is owed no guaranteed money beyond this season and shouldn’t be hard to trade at the deadline, even if it’s for a paper second-round pick the Cavs will never actually see in a money dump.
They haven’t explored that option, however, and would like to recoup a second rounder for Harris considering they realistically won’t have one until 2019 — and it’s their only one until 2021.