On August 22, it was announced that Jae Crowder was traded from the Boston Celtics to the Cleveland Cavaliers. Later that day, his mother Helen succumbed to cancer.
"There was a lot going on that day, obviously," Crowder recalled in his debut press conference as a member of the Cavaliers. "The good thing about the whole ordeal was I was able to deliver (the news) to my mom before she passed. ..."
"I told her, 'We're going to Cleveland,' and about five minutes later she passed."
After blossoming into a household name as a member of the Celtics over the past two-and-a-half seasons, Crowder was traded to the Cavaliers along with Isaiah Thomas, Ante Zizic, and draft assets for guard Kyrie Irving.