Cavaliers Receive Harsh Reality Check on Donovan Mitchell's New Contract

Cavaliers Receive Harsh Reality Check on Donovan Mitchell's New Contract

The Cleveland Cavaliers face several major decisions this offseason, with the fate of LeBron James and James Harden hanging over the heads of fans.One thing they don’t have to worry about, though, is Donovan Mitchell. The perennial All-Star talent is in Cleveland for the long haul, and he proved that this summer by signing a […] The post Cavaliers Receive Harsh Reality Check on Donovan Mitchell’s New Contract appeared first on HEAVY.

Could Cavaliers’ Donovan Mitchell suffer same fate as Jaylen Brown?

The modern NBA equivalency is this: a supermax-contracted star traded for purely financial reasons. We’ve seen a series of players move on for ostensibly non-basketball reasons over the past few years, the latest being Boston Celtics star Jaylen Brown’s shocking trade to the Philadelphia 76ers. Celtics general manager Brad Stevens stated clearly that he wasn’t comfortable, in this age of the hardest of soft-caps, with two players making 70% of t…