Cleveland Cavaliers star Donovan Mitchell detailed his reaction to opposing fans making their presence felt at Rocket Arena during the team’s 121-108 loss to the New York Knicks in Game 3 of the Eastern Conference Finals.<\/p>\n
“I’m from New York, this doesn’t shock me,” Mitchell told reporters after the game. “They do it in every arena. It’s like Cowboys fans. It’s just who they are. I don’t think it’s a Cleveland thing. It wasn’t just us, you look at Philly. It’s how Knicks fans are, I was one back in the day.”<\/p>\n
Fans were heard<\/a> chanting “Let’s go Knicks” during the contest as New York took a commanding 3-0 series lead.<\/p>\n Mitchell finished with 23 points and four assists in the defeat, shooting 9-of-21 from the field and 3-of-10 from three-point territory. <\/p>\n Large amounts of Knicks fans have been present on the road throughout their current playoff run, which included their first-round series win<\/a> over the Atlanta Hawks as well as their second-round sweep<\/a> of the Philadelphia 76ers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cleveland Cavaliers star Donovan Mitchell detailed his reaction to opposing fans making their presence felt at Rocket Arena…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":691656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-691655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=691655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/691656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}