{"id":702934,"date":"2026-05-29T20:46:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T20:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/702934\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T20:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T20:46:11","slug":"donovan-mitchell-gets-vote-of-confidence-from-cavs-gm-despite-nba-playoffs-sweep-vs-knicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/702934\/","title":{"rendered":"Donovan Mitchell Gets Vote of Confidence from Cavs GM Despite NBA Playoffs Sweep vs. Knicks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cleveland Cavaliers president of basketball operations Koby Altman backed star guard Donovan Mitchell after the team was swept by the New York Knicks in the Eastern Conference Finals.<\/p>\n

Altman called Mitchell “uniquely our own” and “our guy” on Friday, via Joe Vardon<\/a> of The Athletic.<\/p>\n

“He’s still playing the best basketball of his career, right? Look, Donovan is our guy,” Altman told reporters. “He loves it here. I think he’s professed how much he loves it here emphatically.”<\/p>\n

Mitchell will be eligible for an extension during the summer.<\/p>\n

He’s current set to earn $50.1 million for the 2026-27 season and holds a $53.8 million player option for his 2027-28 campaign (via Spotrac<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Mitchell is coming off his fourth season in Cleveland, earning an All-Star nod as well as an All-NBA Second Team selection<\/a>. He averaged 27.9 points and 5.7 assists to go along with 4.5 rebounds per game during the regular season, shooting 48.3 percent on field goals and 36.4 percent on triples.<\/p>\n

While Mitchell had several impressive moments during the Cavs’ 2026 playoff run, he also struggled at times.<\/p>\n

He amassed six postseason games with at least 30 points this year, but also compiled six playoff contests in which he shot below 43 percent from the field.<\/p>\n

With extension negotiations potentially on the horizon, Mitchell still has the support of Altman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cleveland Cavaliers president of basketball operations Koby Altman backed star guard Donovan Mitchell after the team was swept…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":702935,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-702934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702934","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=702934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/702935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}