Donovan Mitchell is About To Break The NBA…

Donovan Mitchell is About To Break The NBA…

Who do you think is the single most likely good player to get traded over the next two months I think it’s Donovan Mitchell whether it being in next two months or even during the summer where we’re going to have to talk about the future of Donovan Mitchell he’s like

What’s the difference between Utah and Cleveland am I going to be able to win do I have enough here and the answer is no he does not have enough last year the Cleveland Cavaliers made a statement to the rest of the league when they traded for Donovan Mitchell this young

Ascending team believed they were ready to take the next step in their timeline to contention a franch that has been scarcely relevant without LeBron James Cavaliers made the playoffs without him for the first time in 25 years but even after a career year for Donovan Mitchell

And a pretty good regular season in year 1 this season the Cavaliers are feeling the heat to trade their all NBA guard but why if they were successful in year one and they made it all the way to the playoffs and had one of their most successful Seasons to date why is

Donovan Mitchell and trade rumors well it’s a very deep and complicated story but to start recent injuries and a slight regression have stagnated the first two months of Cleveland season Mitchell was acquired so Cleveland could challenge the League’s Elite but they’ve shown little reason to believe that

They’re in the east’s top tier with each passing week it seems more likely that a Donovan Mitchell trade out of Cleveland is a matter of when not if so before we get to the content channel members we are now releasing some content a little bit earlier to you guys in exchange for

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Cavaliers were a young team on the rise when they acquired Donovan Mitchell after three consecutive years of drafting in the top five the Cavaliers finally put it all together in the 21-22 season winning 44 games just before losing in the playin Darius Garland and Jared Allen were Allstars while Evan

Moley put the league on notice as the Rookie of the Year runner up those three along with a strong Supporting Cast helped engineer near a 22- win Improvement big enough that the organization believed that they were ready to speed up their timeline the mo Allen front Court anchored a top five

Scoring defense but they still needed help on offense especially in the back court during their play and losses to Brooklyn and Atlanta Darius Garland was the only one who would consistently create his own shot they had a good scorer on the roster already in Colin

Seon but he was limited to just 11 games after a season ending meniscus injury an injury complicated Colin seon’s restricted free agency at as he remained unsigned late in the 2022 off season that summer the Utah Jazz’s roster detonation was officially underway after trading Rudy gobert to Minnesota in

Early July everyone knew Donovan Mitchell was next and the expectation was that he was going to get traded to his hometown New York Knicks or maybe the Miami Heat however the Miami Heat almost never succeed whenever it comes to acquiring a superstar and we’ve covered this in previous uploads while

The New York Knicks pretty much have the same reput ation negotiations stalled between his hometown New York Knicks and the Utah Jazz allowing the Cleveland Cavaliers to swoop in and get the deal done in early September of last year the Cleveland Cavaliers acquired Donovan Mitchell from the Utah Jazz in exchange

For Lori marinan oosa abbaji Colin seon who agreed to assign in trade and 5 years of draft control the NBA world was stunned by Cleveland’s bold move including Donovan Mitchell himself who believed he was going to be a New York Nick just like everybody else did and

Even brought the up when he was introduced for the first time as a member of the Cleveland Cavaliers summer you know I didn’t really say much I kind of just let you guys do what you guys do to be honest um and you know I I thought

I thought for sure I was going back home I’m not going to lie about that but you know when I found out where I was headed who I was playing with the group the team the coaching staff I couldn’t be more happier if you’re a Miami Heat fan

This is probably giving you horrible flashbacks to what happened with Damen Lillard this past off season but regardless it’s hard to imagine a better regular season scenario than the one that played out for Donovan Mitchell and the Cleveland Cavaliers during the 2022 to 2023 season you see Donovan Mitchell

Had the highest scoring average of his career on his way to becoming an All-Star starter for the first time and the fourth Cleveland Cavaliers All-Star starter ever he also earned a second Team all NBA nod his first all NBA honor and the fifth Cavalier to ever earn that recognition Mitchell’s inaugural season

In the wine and gold will likely be best remembered for his franchise record 71 points as he carried the Cleveland Cavaliers to an overtime win over the Chicago Bulls he is one of the top eight players ever to score 70 in the game and despite the fact that it came in an

Overtime game Cleveland needed each and every point to pull out of Victory and man it was an instant classic as a team the Cleveland Cavaliers allowed the fewest points per game and had the League’s second highest point differential they finished in the top 10 in offensive rating and had the best

Defensive rating in the NBA ba Cleveland won 51 games and made the playoffs as the east’s fourth seed and nobody wanted to play the Cleveland Cavaliers with the front Court of Jared Allen and Evan Moy Darius Garland and Donovan Mitchell finally hitting their stride and plenty of depth on the bench Cleveland

Cavaliers look poised for a deep run in the Eastern Conference playoffs but unfortunately it wouldn’t come to be the good times would not roll into the NBA playoffs and it’s one of the most confusing matchup disasters we have ever ever seen in NBA history you see of all

The teams the Cleveland Cavaliers could have faced they went up against the New York Knicks New York dispatched Donovan Mitchell and the Cavaliers with ease manhandling them on the boards of all places while the New York Knicks defense held Donovan Mitchell to an incredibly inefficient series the Cavaliers were

Considered to be the favorite with homecourt Advantage but they would go down in five games and I’d be damned if I didn’t say that this most definitely sent a message to Donovan Mitchell what could have been if you were a New York Nick Cleveland’s season of Promise ended

With a thud but they had ascended to the next stage of contending with Donovan Mitchell in the fold getting to the postseason was an expectation now that their younger players had their first taste of playoff basketball so how is the Cleveland Cavaliers fix this how would they make sure that they would

Come into the 2023 to 24 season and make sure that they were primed and positioned for a deep run into the playoffs well they only really made two transactions during the offseason and I can’t really blame them for doing so they had tremendous faith in their big four of Darius Garland Donovan Mitchell

Evan moley and Jared Allen they acquired Max streu in a three- team signing trade and signed Donovan Mitchell’s old Utah Jazz teammate eoris yangang dreu and yang address the Cavaliers biggest weakness from last season shooting these moves are even more important because Cleveland starts two non-shooting bigs

And needs more space for their smaller guards however perhaps the biggest story of Cleveland’s off season is a move they didn’t make although he was eligible for a contract extension this summer Donovan Mitchell did not sign a brand new deal with the Cleveland Cavaliers he’s currently in the third year of his

5-year rookie Max contract extension he’s under contract again next season but the final year of his deal is a player option which he could decline in hitree agency ahead of his age 29 season now I do want to give you a disclaimer financially it would not make any sense

For him to reup this past summer historically we’ve seen instances of superstars that have the option for a contract extension but they chose not to do it because they had confidence that they would still be playing this well by the time their contract ended and they

Can make more money once the salary cap went up and they agreed to a brand new contract then the only instances where you do see Superstars do this if they want to give their team a little bit of a HomeTown discount it didn’t make sense for Donovan Mitchell to reup this summer

He could have done this for an additional 3 years and about $149 million if he waits until this upcoming off season he could add four years to his deal worth about 200 million his best possible payday would come into the 2025 free agency where he could sign a

5-year deal worth about $260 million the supermax contract is not on the table for Mitchell since he was traded after his rookie contract expired before the season started ESPN’s Brian windhorst who is as plugged into the Cavaliers as any national reporter discussed why he’s not surprised that Mitchell didn’t

Resign and why it would be important to see how he handles that topic during media day not expect him to sign an extension with the Cavs this summer nor do I expect that to cause a major alarm I expect him to go to next year but the

Way that he handles discussing it is important because look at the way Giannis has chosen to talk about it on his own bition several times this summer he has basically made it known that his future in Milwaukee is not assured how Donovan answers that question and explains his decision process will be

Very important for the Cleveland Cavaliers their fans and potentially other teams out there who may be interested in making a trade for Donovan Mitchell at some point to to listen to my expectation is Donovan who’s a total Pro will handle this like he did in Utah

Which was pledge his undying love to the Jazz but also keep his options open as expected Donovan Mitchell was asked about his contract situation on media day but reminded everyone that he can still sign a new deal next summer what what does this team have to do and for

You to maybe want to put long-term Roots here yeah for you you know obviously you know for for for myself I I want it to be known that I still have the opportunity to sign an extension next summer I don’t think a lot of people understand that aspect uh but right now

Ultimately when the when the season’s over we we will we’ll get to that I’ve dress that with with the front office and whatnot so for me that’s my biggest thing is you know I still have an opportunity to do the same thing next

Summer um you know and I I I know it’s a world where it’s always talking this won’t be the last time I probably have to answer this this question to be clear will you not sign an extension with the Cavs before opening night have you made

That clear to the front office no it’d be you know if I were to it’ll be it’ll be next summer okay is that a financial decision no it’s more so like I said just for me um going off of what we what we did last year that’s my primary focus

Is this just trying to go out there and trying to be you know the best team we can be and bring a championship to the city and then go from there and I’ve addressed this with coob and everybody over there you know this I can still do

It can still sign this extension and um I’m excited for what we got going forward Cleveland’s best chance of keeping Donovan Mitchell would have to be another good regular season and to make up for last year’s playoff disappointment with a series win however unlike last season when the Cavaliers

Started 8-1 the beginning of this season wasn’t as smooth the Cavaliers started a pedestrian 4 and six through 10 games although they were without Jared Allen for the first five games the Cavs improved their record since the season has gone on getting as high as four

Games above 500 but for the most part they’ve been Treading Water they’ve had key injuries in their rotation pepper throughout their early slate like Isaac aoro Caris lever and Dean Wade all missing at least seven games plus Cleveland’s core 4 has only played in 11 games together all season that’s only

Going to continue in the near future about a week ago in a double whammy of bad news the Cavaliers announced that Darius garland would be out four weeks with a broken jaw and that Evan Mobley would need surgery on his left knee that will keep him out for 6 to 8 weeks

That’s certainly not going to help out a team that has played below low expectations on both sides of the floor their defensive rating has fallen to 10th while their offensive rating is down to 19th they’ve allowed the fewest points per game last season but this season they ranked seventh they had the

Second best point differential last season but this season they ranked 17th with they nearly even differential Cavaliers haven’t been a bad team but regressing in important categories is not how this season was supposed to go Cleveland made a huge win now trade because they thought their young players

Would continue to improve but the team is mostly stagnated in in the win column and now two of their Cornerstone players won’t be in the lineup for weeks Moy in particular might really be the one holding the keys to Cleveland’s future the Cavaliers believe they got a steal

Drafting a potential two-way star when they drafted the USC big man third overall in 2021 he instantly showed Elite defensive skills and finished third in defensive player of the year of voting in just his first year however he had has multiple question marks on the offensive end while he’s increased his

Field goal in three-point percentage each season he still has essentially no three-point jumper he also hasn’t shown the ability to consistently create a shot something that isn’t backbreaking on a team with Garland and Mitchell but it significantly limits Cleveland’s big picture potential Moy has been a poor

Shooter once he’s further than 8 ft from the basket and he doesn’t Fe much better when he has to dribble before a shot now the Cleveland Cavaliers will have to wait for his and Garland’s return to render a more complete evaluation of the team but after speeding up their

Timeline with the Donovan Mitchell trade they don’t have much time now the good news for Cleveland is that Mitchell can’t hit free agency until 2025 at the earliest but Cleveland essentially has just the remainder of this season to convince Mitchell to stay long term if he declines an extension again this

Summer it doesn’t make a lot of sense to keep in for the 2024 to 2025 season he could opt out and leave in 2025 free agency dealing in before things get ugly and recouping assets and players to help win now is Cleveland’s best move in that scenario dealing Mitchell in the

Offseason also allows the Cavaliers to outline a plan that gives Evan Moy more offensive touches next season to further develop his unpolished offensive game while that might cost the Cavaliers in the short term they’re already not good enough to be considered a contender with Donovan Mitchell barring a major

Turnaround the Cleveland Cavaliers can’t let Donovan Mitchell Walk For Nothing especially considering the assets they gave up for him after handing the Utah Jazz 5 years of draft Capital Cleveland can’t rebuild without their own picks since the C Cavaliers have to win this season the Darius Garland and Evan

Mobley injuries may actually decrease the chance of Donovan Mitchell getting moved before the deadline even with the injuries Cleveland has not shown that they can push into the League’s top tier this season and have few assets to improve the team in the immediate future for his part Donovan Mitchell has

Avoided questions about his future saying he’s focused on steadying the ship until Darius Garland and Evan Moy return but the Cleveland Cavaliers can’t bury their heads in the sand if the season goes sideways before the trade deadline the calls to deal Mitchell will only grow louder same thing if Cleveland

Disappoints in the playoffs again at that point it’ll just be a formality of where Donovan Mitchell would prefer to go rather than if the Cleveland Cavaliers decide to trade him let me know in the comment section down below will Donovan Mitchell be a Cleveland Cavalier in the future aside from that

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