CLEVELAND -- The Cleveland Cavaliers are making moves -- albeit, not the kind you might have expected in the days leading up to the NBA Draft.
According to ESPN's Dave McMenamin and Brian Windhorst, the Cavs are making adjustments to their coaching staff and will not renew the contracts of assistant coach Jim Boylan and player development coach Phil Handy.
In their places, the Cavs will promote a pair of assistants already part of the team's staff. Former Cavs guard Damon Jones will move to a role as a front-of-the-bench assistant coach, while player development coach Dan Geriot is being promoted to a full-time assistant coach.
Jones had previously served as an assistant coach with Cleveland's G-League affiliate, the Canton Charge before working his way up the ranks of the Cavs coaching staff. Earlier this season, he was involved in an incident in which guard J.R. Smith reportedly threw a bowl of a soup at him.
Last week, big man coach and former Cavs center Vitaly Potapenko left Cleveland to join the Memphis Grizzlies' staff.
Following the Cavs' season-ending loss to the Golden State Warriors in Game 4 of the NBA Finals, head coach Tyronn Lue insisted that despite health issues, he plans on returning to the team for the 2018-19 season.
"Yeah, I do," Lue answered when asked if he intended to return to Cleveland next season. "I had some tough problems going on throughout the course of the season, and like you said, I probably could have folded myself, but I wasn't going to do that."