MIAMI — There was plenty to address with Davion Mitchell on Thursday at the Miami Heat’s back-to-school event, but there also was the matter of equal time.

That meant giving the veteran point guard a chance to address the allegations — as lighthearted as they were.

Sunday, at his foundation’s annual youth camp, Heat center Bam Adebayo was asked if he had taken note of the time Mitchell had put in this summer working on his game and his body.

With the widest of good-natured grins, Adebayo replied, “Man, Davion’s not fat anymore You know, he’s not fat anymore. He got himself in shape.”

Actually, conditioning never stood as a question with the No. 9 pick in the 2021 draft out of Baylor.

But, yes, Mitchell had mentioned at the start of the offseason of getting in even better shape, considering the pressure on himself and his team this coming season with the addition of Giannis Antetokounmpo.

So Thursday, Mitchell addressed Adebayo’s assessment.

“Bam talks a lot of trash, so I’m not surprised,” Mitchell said with as much of a smile as Adebayo offered when he offered his Sunday comments. “When he said it, I wasn’t surprised at all. But it’s love, it’s all love.

“I mean, obviously, he sees the work that I put in. He’s around me a lot during this offseason, and he respects everything I do, just like I respect everything he does.”

For Mitchell, 27, the work has been unrelenting, including early-morning track work on Thursday at the University of Miami, followed by a shooting session before his midday appearance at the Heat’s Back-to-School Shopping Spree at a Miami Walmart Supercenter, an event presented by Morgan & Morgan for 10 students from Advocacy Network on Disabilities.

Mitchell said the weight issue hardly has been weighing on him.

“I don’t know, I don’t check,” he said when asked about the pounds dropped this summer. “I just have my trainer/nutritionist check, and I don’t know until the end of the summer.”

As for the voluminous amount of workout video that Mitchell has posted on social media, he said it is no different than his typical offseasons.

“I think that people notice it now because I play in a bigger market,” he said, having previously played for the Sacramento Kings and Toronto Raptors. “I’ve been doing it since I first got in the league. But I think it gets noticed more, obviously, playing in a bigger market.

“I get my sleep and everything. People just see the work, but I get my eight hours. Like I’m staying on that. I eat right.”

With Antetokounmpo in place, more eyes have been on Mitchell, with the Heat lacking depth at point guard. Dru Smith and two-way player Tre Donaldson, who also was at Thursday’s event, are the only other point guards on the roster.

“I mean, people have their opinions,” Mitchell said of those questioning whether the Heat have enough at his position. “People are going to say what they got to say. For me, I’m just trying to be the best player I can be.

“Honestly, I can’t really change the way they think. But for me, I’m just going to go out there and get better, obviously, trying to build a chemistry with Giannis. Obviously, people see me in Greece, building chemistry with Bam, obviously seeing those things. But just trying to be the best teammate I can be for them.”

Mitchell said the time last month in Greece with Antetokounmpo was particularly meaningful.

“Just meeting him and kind of getting that working, yeah, it was amazing,” he said. “I mean, he’s a winner. He just wants to win. For me, I was just trying to learn the places I need to be on the court, what makes him more comfortable.

“I mean, obviously, he’s been in the league for so long that he knows how everyone’s going to guard him, then he knows how everyone’s going to guard me. So he’s trying to find ways for me to be successful, and I’m just trying to do the things for him. So it was great conversations, even at dinner, just talking about everything, talking about life.”