{"id":348274,"date":"2026-03-20T01:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T01:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/348274\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T01:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T01:14:10","slug":"cavaliers-star-donovan-mitchell-misses-game-against-bulls-because-of-bruised-left-eye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/348274\/","title":{"rendered":"Cavaliers star Donovan Mitchell misses game against Bulls because of bruised left eye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2113864\" class=\"wp-image-2113864 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/mitchell-iso-031926-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1438\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2113864\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Donovan Mitchell is eighth in the NBA in scoring at 28 points per game while shooting a career-high 47.9%.<\/p>\n<p>CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 Cleveland star Donovan Mitchell missed the Cavaliers\u2019 game Thursday night against the Chicago Bulls because of a bruised left eye.<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell was hurt in a collision in practice with Evan Mobley. The seven-time All-Star played through the injury in Cleveland\u2019s victory at Milwaukee on Tuesday night and finished with 19 points on 4-for-14 shooting. He said after the game that he was having trouble seeing.<\/p>\n<p>Coach Kenny Atkinson said the injury is \u201cnothing serious,\u201d but the Cavaliers need to \u201clet it clear up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell is eighth in the NBA in scoring at 28 points per game while shooting a career-high 47.9%. He\u2019s averaging 5.9 assists, 4.5 rebounds and 1.6 steals.<\/p>\n<p>The Cavaliers entered the day fourth in the Eastern Conference at 42-27. They trailed New York by 2 1\/2 games and led Toronto by 2 1\/2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donovan Mitchell is eighth in the NBA in scoring at 28 points per game while shooting a career-high&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[109471,85,46,105],"class_list":["post-348274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-donovan-mitchell","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}