By now, you know how this works. Let's rip through the familiar faces who've found homes in new places over the last 24 hours, starting with perhaps the most interesting man in the NBA heading to the home of, um, the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame: *** • The Cleveland Cavaliers have agreed to terms with free-agent center Andrew Bynum, according to Yahoo! Sports NBA columnist Adrian Wojnarowski . We'd known Bynum had a two-year offer worth around $24 million on the table from the Cavs as of Monday night, but was also in talks with the Dallas Mavericks and Atlanta Hawks; ESPN.com's Chris Broussard first reported that Bynum had chosen to join Cleveland. The unique structure of the contract makes this look like a very shrewd pickup by Chris Grant and the Cavs — Bynum is only guaranteed $6 million in the first year of the contract, with the remaining $6 million based on a variety of games-played and minutes-based incentives, and Cleveland holding a $12.5 million team option for Year 2 that would allow them to bring Bynum back at a set figure should he prove to be healthy enough to play this coming season. "Healthy enough to play," obviously, is the operative phrase. (Also, given the state of Bynum's wheels, "operative" isn't a bad one, either.)
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