The NBA summer league concluded this week and Cavs first-round draft pick J.J. Hickson averaged 19.4 points and 7.8 rebounds per game and shot 53 percent from the floor (he shot much lower from the stands). What does it mean? Well, the Cavs didn’t want to overdo things with Hickson in his first “professional” experience, so they just let him play. Which means let him do what he does well, which is score with his back to the basket, work hard and rebound. He did that. And the Cavs were pleased.

But they also know that it’s five games of summer league, and while Hickson did well the team is not ready to pencil him into the rotation just yet. They know he needs to work on some things, and he will sit down with the Cavs coaches soon and have that detailed to him. The one thing that jumps out to me is that Hickson had 18 turnovers. Summer league entails a bunch of guys being thrown together, but 3.6 turnovers per game for a big guy is too many. Put it this way: Only two players in the league averaged more than 3.6 turnovers per game last season. Too, Hickson had zero assists. Could be the Cavs told him to shoot every time he got the ball on the block, but zero assists in five games? Safe to guess turnovers and handling the ball will be subjects of discussion.

As for Romeo Travis and Dru Joyce, the two Akron guys who joined the Cavs summer league team, both had minimal playing time. Joyce averaged eight minutes per game, Travis 10.5. The Cavs feel the exposure will help their professional chances in Europe.

The turnover thing is interesting. LeBron James had 3.4 turnovers per game last season, the fifth highest total in the league. That’s a lot, until one considers what else James did. He had one of the best assist-to-turnover ratios in the league (2.11) and one of the best steals-to-turnover ratios as well (.54). Clearly, a guy who handles the ball as much as James will have some turnovers.

Speaking of James (like the transition?), one thing one never wants to hear are the words LeBron James and sprained ankle in the same sentence. But that’s what happened Tuesday when James tweaked his ankle practicing with the Olympic team. It’s supposed to be minor, but it illustrates the risk inherent in playing in China. It’s the reason Mark Cuban railed about his players being on the team. Cuban said he takes all the risk while USA Basketball gets the rewards. Trying to argue James should miss the Olympics would be like trying to stop the snow from falling in the Antarctic. It’s just not going to happen. For one, there’s too much money in China for a marketer and player like James to pass up. For two, he’s a basketball player. If he weren’t practicing for the Olympics, he’d be playing somewhere, perhaps at a two-on-two game at the team’s facility. As Danny Ferry said, it’d be nice to put James in a bubble, but the competitiveness that drives him in the NBA is the same thing that drives him in the offseason to improve. A tweaked ankle is the risk of the reward we all get to see him play for the Cavs.