A 12th jersey for Schroder
Twelve teams. Dennis Schroder is about to pull on his twelfth NBA jersey, and he is nowhere near finished playing.
The Cleveland Cavaliers agreed Friday to send the veteran guard and cash to the Charlotte Hornets in exchange for Tre Mann, according to multiple reports. Schroder turns 33 next month. Charlotte will be his 11th different uniform in nine seasons, and one short of the record Ish Smith set with 13 franchises.
Cleveland did not make this move for basketball reasons alone. Schroder is owed a base salary of $14.81 million in 2026-27, the third year of the $44.4 million deal he signed with Sacramento in July 2025. Moving that number keeps the Cavaliers comfortably under the second apron of the luxury tax.
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What Cleveland wants next
The flexibility has a purpose. Cleveland is still working to bring James Harden back into the fold and has interest in free agent forwards Peyton Watson and Jonathan Kuminga. Neither pursuit gets easier with Schroder’s salary sitting on the books.
Schroder played 30 games for the Cavaliers last season after 40 with the Kings, averaging 8.2 points in Cleveland and 10.8 across the full year. That 8.2 figure is the outlier of his career. He has averaged double figures every season except his rookie year in 2013-14.
The full ledger reads 912 games, 441 starts, 13.7 points and 4.9 assists per night. His best scoring season came with Atlanta in 2017-18 at 19.4 points. Two years later he averaged 18.9 for Oklahoma City and finished runner-up for Most Improved Player.
Familiar faces waiting in Charlotte
Schroder spent his first five seasons in Atlanta after arriving in 2013-14. Hornets president Jeff Peterson and head coach Charles Lee were both inside the Hawks organization during that stretch. Charlotte knows what it is buying.
Mann heads the other way at 25. He averaged 5.5 points in 53 appearances for the Hornets last season, well under his career mark of 8.5 across 234 games and 60 starts. Oklahoma City drafted him and kept him for two-plus seasons before shipping him to Charlotte midway through 2023-24.
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