Donovan Mitchell insists he should be in the MVP race this season | NBA Today

Donovan Mitchell insists he should be in the MVP race this season | NBA Today

Donovan Mitchell has been balling this season he’s putting up career numbers as not only a scorer but also a distributor and then defensively as well I caught up with the Cav star ahead of tonight’s game joining us now five time All-Star Donovan Mitchell Donovan thank you so

Much for stopping by NBA today I appreciate you guys having me again thank you of course your Cavs are one of the hottest teams right now in basketball You’ve Won 16 to the last 18 considering all that playing some of the best that you’ve played in your career

This is is one of the most interesting and wideopen MVP races that we’ve seen do you think that you should be brought up more in that conversation most definitely I think it’s a product of you know the way we finished last season in the playoffs I think we kind of you know

I think not just myself in the MVP race but also the the Cavs in general so uh do I feel like I belong there I definitely do I feel like I’m top three I’m definitely there but ultimately you know to get there you have to continue

To win you’re such a student of the game I imagine that you’ve watched back that playoff series Series against the New York Knicks time and time again I’m past it you know I kind of said that I think to start the season you know you can’t

You can use here in the 20204 Cs can we play a little game Rich what what yeah cuz I I get to use my game show voice and then I get excited are you ready we we got a couple of stats here that I

Want to throw up but I want you guys to guess do these relate to the 2016 Cavaliers or do they relate to Richard Jefferson’s 2016 title Cavaliers right all right first up which team had the longer winning streak do you think oh their team we were we were mess around

And find out that’s that’s who we were what do you think Don definitely us definitely us ding ding ding that n game winning streak is definitely the winner here all right who had the highest scorer the highest scorer the 2016 Cavs or the 20 2023

2024 C 23 20 uh 23 24 I want to say us I want to say us cuz LeBron and Kyrie kind of had to split a little bit ding ding ding gosh you guys are good this is all right look at that there’s do up there once again just slight Edge over Braun

All right well what about this one which team had more technical oh oh what do you think Donan I want to say us cuz Max stru just screaming all the time I might it might be us I I like struth but I I look I’m going to lean with us

Technicals which one was it give us something which one was it nope Donovan’s right again 26 text to 18 text all right Max probably had like 20 of those I’ll give you guys one more one all right which team had more bald guys oh oh definitely um definitely uh 1516

156 had more are we including Braun as I knew you were going to say that I was not going to include Braun in this I knew you were going to bring that up just the one just Richard Jefferson zero ball players Jared Allen counts for Richard’s so abused what you

Splitting hairs on Ron should be included in that’s splitting hairs donov thank you so much for spending some time with us here on NBA today we will see you in Indianapolis I appreciate you guys thank you so much apprciate you brother be sure to check out Donovan in

Tonight’s double header the Cavs they host the Bulls at 7:30 Eastern and then Stephan the Warriors they host the Clippers remember Kawhi Leonard is out tonight but it’s still going to be a great game NBA Countdown gets it all [Applause] Started [Applause]

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Donovan Mitchell joins Richard Jefferson and I on NBA Today to discuss his career-high season with the red-hot Cleveland Cavaliers and make his case for the MVP race.