Report: Larry Sanders missed team bus before being cut

The Cleveland Cavaliers were quick to cut bait with Larry Sanders, who didn't quite pan out as expected.

Sanders endeavored to get his professional basketball career back on track after sitting out the last two seasons, but his tenure with the Cavaliers proved to be a bumpy ride as he failed to meet certain team responsibilities.

According to Jason Lloyd of The Athletic, Sanders missed a team bus while the team was in Miami on Tuesday, which counted as just one of multiple instances where he struggled with punctuality.

Sanders was waived shortly thereafter in order to accommodate the signing of D-League standout Edy Tavares, who recorded six blocks and 10 rebounds in his Cavaliers debut on Wednesday.

"He didn’t have any kind of a setback relative to any of the demons he had or any of those things," Cavaliers general manager David Griffin explained to Lloyd. "He’s an NBA player. He’s kind of flaky. So sometimes you’re late. You’re this. You’re that."

"None of those things were incidents. But I have to take you in totality as a player and if I know you’re not going to play, then what I’m going to get is everything else. And if I didn’t even feel confident that he’d be a benefit to the group in practice, then it was hard for me to tell coaches, ‘This is a guy you’ve got to keep.’

"So they had the conversation on the plane, what else can we do? And we talked about it and we landed and we talked to all the rest of our staff and made a decision."