Dan Gilbert: Cavaliers not thinking about LeBron James’s free agency

Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert will worry about LeBron James’s potential departure when the time comes.

For now, Gilbert said, the Cavaliers are focused on their fourth consecutive trip to the NBA Finals and trying to win that.

“Like him, I think he’s said this, we’re just focused — and it’s the truth, it’s not avoiding the question — we’re literally focused on (the now),” Gilbert told ESPN’s Dave McMenamin. “It’s just so intense in the playoffs and getting to the Finals and now the Finals, I don’t think — and I know he doesn’t — I don’t think even our guys are talking (about anything other than) what’s in front of them.

“So, everybody knows, obviously what we want to happen and we’ll take the Finals first and take it from there.”

James can opt out of his contract at season’s end and is widely expected to do so. The interaction the two shared Sunday night will do nothing to silence rumors that James and Gilbert don’t see eye to eye and the player has one eye on the exit.