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While the reigning MVP is busy trumpeting his way to the finals and Chris Paul at least able to be satisfied with the progress made this season, the Cavaliers are looking at how to improve their team. And by "improve their team" I mean, "do whatever in God's name it will take to convince LeBron James not to go to New York and abandon them to a cold and lonely legacy of abject failure after being granted one of the greatest draft picks ever." You know. In so many words.

So if you're going to go out and get an upgrade for LeBron, and it's pretty evident that it needs to be scoring. So who's available?

Survey says: Michael Redd.

In an article in the Akron Beacon Journal, Pat McManamon writes that there is a "lot of talk about acquiring Michael Redd from the Milwaukee Bucks" for the Cavs. Redd's got a big contract on a rebuilding squad, and it's been proven that he can't be the guy to get the Bucks where they need to go. Putting him on the Cavs for the 19th pick and trigger-happy Wally Szczerbiak plus parts may be the way to make it happen.

Acquiring Redd would give LeBron the firepower necessary to at least pull up to the next level and force teams to only completely abandon Ben Wallace on the defensive end. The question is whether GM Danny Ferry will do as he did for most of the year, passing on viable big-move trades until it was too late and then making what ended up being a zero-sum trade with the Bulls and Sonics, outside of the surprisingly valuable acquisition of Delonte West.

Ferry can't wait and let opportunities like Redd sit out on the open market. If he watches the pitch go by, he may find that it's LeBron who's "out."