Cavaliers' home run trade completely shatters 1 Jazz hope

You guys remember when Dennis Schroder was technically on the Utah Jazz's roster for a few hours? Fun times. Well, the Jazz accordingly orchestrated a blockbuster trade to send Schroder to a playoff team that needed him, so it all worked out for everyone.

Well, Schroder's on the move again, going to his 11th team in his career, and playing for his fifth team in a year's span, give or take. Now he's on the Cleveland Cavaliers. While Schroder is perhaps the NBA's biggest wild card, he fits Cleveland's biggest need, and more so, should ruin the value of the draft assets they owe the Jazz.

Cleveland looked a bit concerning at first this season, which was good news for the Jazz, but they have picked themselves up a bit lately. It's not a guarantee that Schroder will be the ceiling-raiser the Cavaliers are looking for, but his track record shows he definitely can be.

Plus, if he continues to follow his pattern over the last few years, this could change so much for Cleveland over the next few years. In so doing, the unprotected pick they owe the Jazz next season and the pick swap they owe the season after that won't have much value.

Besides the fact that Schroder can be a game-changer, what made this deal even more of a success for Cleveland was trading Hunter, who makes more than Schroder and had shown that he clearly didn't fit with the team. So they got to save money and acquire someone who is an enigma but has shown the ability to change a team's landscape.

It's not the end of the world for Utah but just a shame

No one will know for sure whether or not Schroder works out for Cleveland, but when you look at what their problems have been, like lacking a secondary playmaker/scorer in their second unit since Ty Jerome's departure, it's pretty easy to tell why this was an easy trade for them to make.

What's kind of nice about owning a team's future picks is the possibility that they just might give you something golden. In a nutshell, it's nice to have a team do the tanking for you. Ironically, the Jazz are doing everything in their power to avoid doing that for the Thunder. From a strictly draft perspective for Utah, it was a nice thought that maybe Cleveland was beginning to crumble for a while.

Besides, the Cavaliers getting better only ensures that the Suns get their pick from that trade they made with the Jazz, so there's the safety net that they won't be adding another late first-rounder. It's the small victories in life for Jazz fans, as we all know.

If that's not enough, Schroder becoming a Cav makes the Lonzo Ball-Jazz hypothetical trade a lot more plausible, so... there's that!