CLEVELAND, Ohio — Injured sharpshooter Max Strus shed his walking boot — for one day — and slowly walked around the court during the Cavs’ annual media day on Monday morning.

Now five weeks removed from surgery to repair a Jones fracture in his foot, Strus offered a brief glimpse into his recovery.

“I’m not going to put a timetable on my return,” Strus said, revealing that he has a six-week check-up at some point next week. “Hopefully start the recovery and get-back process from there. I’m in a good spot right now. Everything seems to be healing.”

Strus suffered the injury during a late-August offseason workout in Chicago, leaving the Cavs without a key member of the starting lineup for an indefinite period of time.

“I was just working out and went to jump off my foot and it cracked,”

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