{"id":48355,"date":"2022-09-01T17:19:23","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T21:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/?p=48355"},"modified":"2022-09-01T17:19:23","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T21:19:23","slug":"donovan-mitchell-traded-to-the-cleveland-cavaliers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2022\/09\/01\/donovan-mitchell-traded-to-the-cleveland-cavaliers\/","title":{"rendered":"Donovan Mitchell Traded to The Cleveland Cavaliers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/g\/goberru01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rudy Gobert<\/a><\/strong> trade was completed, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/m\/mitchdo01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Donovan Mitchell<\/a><\/strong> was due to be next out the door. We only had to wait 2 more months but the deal is done. According to ESPN&#8217;s Adrian Wojnarowski, Donovan Mitchell is headed to the Cleveland Cavaliers.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Full trade: Utah is trading Donovan Mitchell to Cleveland for Lauri Markkanen, Ochair Agbaji, Collin Sexton, three unprotected first-round picks and two pick swaps, sources tell ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wojespn\/status\/1565424787446439941?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 1, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Donovan Mitchell Traded to Cleveland Cavaliers<\/h2>\n<h3>Cavaliers are a New Force in The East<\/h3>\n<p>Those that kept up with the Cavaliers will know that <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/s\/sextoco01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Collin Sexton<\/a><\/strong> didn&#8217;t play due to injury, and that <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/m\/markkla01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lauri Markkanen<\/a><\/strong> played out-of-position in the starting lineup.\u00a0 The tall ball experiment with Markkanen, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/m\/mobleev01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Evan Mobley<\/a><\/strong>, and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/a\/allenja01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jarrett Allen<\/a><\/strong> held promising results and put the Cavs in position to make the next leap. Trading those two pieces for Donovan Mitchell is a massive boost. Mitchell will star in the backcourt along with breakout star <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/g\/garlada01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Darius Garland<\/a><\/strong>, whose skills as a floor general will complement Mitchell nicely. Cleveland also gave 3 unprotected first-round picks and two pick swaps in this deal. A young core with Garland, Mitchell, and Mobley should be good enough for those picks not to hurt in the long run.<\/p>\n<h3>Utah Jazz Begin Their Rebuild<\/h3>\n<p>Sending out Donovan Mitchell officially marks the start of the Utah Jazz rebuild.\u00a0 The Jazz actually generated a solid amount of assets from the sale of Gobert and Mitchell. The two all-stars generated seven unprotected firsts, three pick swaps, and two rookies, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/v\/vandeja01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jarred Vanderbilt<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/k\/kesslwa01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Walker Kessler<\/a><\/strong>, Lauri Markkanen, Collin Sexton, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/h\/hortota01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Talen Horton Tucker<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/b\/beaslma01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Malik Beasley<\/a><\/strong>. The Jazz will fade into obscurity for the near future but are in a great place. They won&#8217;t be bottom of the barrel with the likes of the Spurs and Rockets, but they&#8217;ve had a great eye for talent in past drafts.<\/p>\n<h3>What Happened to The Knicks?<\/h3>\n<p>Most of the NBA world wanted to see Mitchell traded to the Knicks. The Knicks were long rumored to be the landing spot for Mitchell. The two sides would approach a deal, then stop talking, then pick up again. Both Leon Rose and Danny Ainge we&#8217;re intent on <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2022\/07\/21\/knicks-need-to-be-aggressive-to-land-donovan-mitchell\/\" target=\"_self\">&#8220;pulling one over&#8221; on the other<\/a>. The Knicks offered some combination of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/g\/grimequ01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Quentin Grimes<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/t\/toppiob01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Obi Toppin<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/f\/fournev01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Evan Fournier<\/a><\/strong>, and picks. One can wonder if the Knicks ever got the chance to bid against the Cavs&#8217; winning offer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the Rudy Gobert trade was completed, Donovan Mitchell was due to be next out the door. We only had to wait 2 more months but the deal is done. According to ESPN&#8217;s Adrian Wojnarowski, Donovan Mitchell is headed to the Cleveland Cavaliers. Full trade: Utah is trading Donovan Mitchell to Cleveland for Lauri Markkanen, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3750,"featured_media":47942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,9,24],"tags":[1594,1937,900,3966,1043,394],"class_list":["post-48355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","category-cavaliers","category-jazz","tag-collin-sexton","tag-darius-garland","tag-donovan-mitchell","tag-evan-mobley","tag-jarrett-allen","tag-rudy-gobert"],"modified_by":"Kunning Chen, Department Manager","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3750"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}