Kyrie Irving Trade: These six teams have offers on the table for Cavs superstar

The Cleveland Cavaliers have been actively engaging teams on a potential Kyrie Irving trade before the 2017-18 NBA season. After 20 teams reportedly made inquiries to the Cavs upon learning of Irving's trade request, up to six teams have offers on the table for the All-Star point guard.

According to Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN, the San Antonio Spurs, Los Angeles Clippers, Phoenix Suns, Minnesota Timberwolves, New York Knicks and Miami Heat are the six teams in question. Irving's reported list of preferred destinations includes the Spurs, Timberwolves, Knicks and Heat. On Wednesday, a source close to ESPN revealed that Irving "very badly" wants to be traded to the Knicks, his hometown franchise.

The report added that the Cavs don't feel hurried to pull the trigger, and would wait for a package that resembles the infamous Carmelo Anthony trade to New York Knicks in 2011.

"The Cavaliers want a package that resembles the 2011 Denver Nuggets-New York Knicks deal for Carmelo Anthony -- young players, win-now veterans and draft picks, league sources said. For new general manager Koby Altman, this is a textbook way to open trade discussions. But for now, most Irving suitors are using the Minnesota Timberwolves-Chicago Bulls trade model for Jimmy Butler, a scaled-down model of Melo's rich return of assets," Wojnarowski wrote in a report published Thursday.

Kyrie Irving Trade: Rival execs want to acquire ‘winner’

According to one Eastern Conference executive, teams around the league are willing to part with sizeable assets to get their hands on Irving, who is widely perceived as "a winner" at every stage of his career.

"Go back through every team he's played on, talked to people involved -- or just study the results -- and it doesn't matter whether it was high school, college, USA development and national teams, and in the NBA -- and you see a pattern of him impacting winning. There are questions about those first couple years before LeBron came back, but I think there were a lot of issues around there that were out of his control. That said, he didn't always help himself then either," the executive was quoted as saying by ESPN.

Irving's wish list won't persuade the Cavaliers front office. For them, it's about securing the best haul of assets that would set them up for a future without Irving and possibly LeBron James. Irving, drafted No. 1 overall by Cleveland in 2011, averaged 25.2 points, and 5.8 assists and 3.2 rebounds in his sixth season in the league. The talented guard wants to reportedly step out of LeBron James' shadow and embrace his own team.