Big Update on the Future of Donovan Mitchell With the Cavaliers – Sports4CLE, 3/27/24
He tweeted this out as well and you’re starting to hear this from people who know Donovan Mitchell growing sentiment that Donovan Mitchell will remain um with the Cavs you’re starting to hear players saying players that know him saying he’s he pretty happy in Cleveland he seems to be really happy in Cleveland
Um do do you is that you talk to people around the league is that kind of the growing sense is that um there’s a pretty good chance they’re going to extend him and keep him um as a c yeah you know I mean they’re going to offer him the max extension whatever the
Cavs will whatever they can give him which is going to be more than anybody else can give him and I do really think Donovan Mitchell is happy in Cleveland I think he was happy in Utah and he even said he would he would have stayed there
Uh and gone through the rebuild with him I don’t think he’s a guy who’s looking to make his next move at least that’s the impression I’m getting from people around the league that you know Donovan Mitchell is not one of these guys who wants to go team up with a bunch of
Allstar as as much as the fans would like to see that that aren’t in Cleveland the fans uh out of outside of Cleveland seemingly want to see that in New York or Miami or wherever um but in Cleveland it seems like you know he’s in a good situation for himself he can make
More money than anywhere else and and according to everybody I’ve talked to around the league there’s a third thing that’s really at Play here and that’s the fact that you know the team that is supposedly he’s been linked to the most or the Knicks they just are pretty well
Stacked right now and have no desire to shake up anything and they would have to shake up their salary structure to land Onan Mitchell unless he would to go play there on a minimum deal which he doesn’t want to do so there’s you know the other
Thing at play is these other teams don’t seem willing to sacrifice what they would have to to land Mitchell uh even in free agency because you know at the end of next season he could be eligible for free agency if he doesn’t sign an extension there may not be anywhere for
Him to go you know depending on other team salary structures uh so it seems like the most favorable move for Donovan Mitchell right now would be to sign an extension in GLE
Dave Bacon and Sam Amico discuss the future of Donovan Mitchell with the Cavaliers.
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Too many people think that Mitchell needs to be like LeBron or any of these other superstars and always have one foot out the door looking for the next team to play with. Looking back over the era of super teams it hasn't been that successful. At least not as far as winning titles goes. It just doesn't pay to join a super team. Too much money is wrapped up in the three superstars that it makes it difficult to build a well rounded team.