{"id":364561,"date":"2026-08-06T18:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T18:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/364561\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T18:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T18:52:11","slug":"not-fat-anymore-heats-davion-mitchell-on-his-weight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/364561\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Not fat anymore’? Heat’s Davion Mitchell on his weight"},"content":{"rendered":"

MIAMI \u2014 There was plenty to address with Davion Mitchell on Thursday at the Miami Heat\u2019s back-to-school event, but there also was the matter of equal time.<\/p>\n

That meant giving the veteran point guard a chance to address the allegations \u2014 as lighthearted as they were.<\/p>\n

Sunday, at\u00a0his foundation\u2019s annual youth camp<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n

With the widest of good-natured grins, Adebayo replied, \u201cMan, Davion\u2019s not fat anymore You know, he\u2019s not fat anymore. He got himself in shape.\u201d<\/p>\n

Actually, conditioning never stood as a question with the No. 9 pick in the 2021 draft out of Baylor.<\/p>\n

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

So Thursday, Mitchell addressed Adebayo\u2019s assessment.<\/p>\n

\u201cBam talks a lot of trash, so I\u2019m not surprised,\u201d Mitchell said with as much of a smile as Adebayo offered when he offered his Sunday comments. \u201cWhen he said it, I wasn\u2019t surprised at all. But it\u2019s love, it\u2019s all love.<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean, obviously, he sees the work that I put in. He\u2019s around me a lot during this offseason, and he respects everything I do, just like I respect everything he does.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u2019s Back-to-School Shopping Spree at a Miami Walmart Supercenter, an event presented by Morgan & Morgan for 10 students from Advocacy Network on Disabilities.<\/p>\n

Mitchell said the weight issue hardly has been weighing on him.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know, I don\u2019t check,\u201d he said when asked about the pounds dropped this summer. \u201cI just have my trainer\/nutritionist check, and I don\u2019t know until the end of the summer.\u201d<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that people notice it now because I play in a bigger market,\u201d he said, having previously played for the Sacramento Kings and Toronto Raptors. \u201cI\u2019ve been doing it since I first got in the league. But I think it gets noticed more, obviously, playing in a bigger market.<\/p>\n

\u201cI get my sleep and everything. People just see the work, but I get my eight hours. Like I\u2019m staying on that. I eat right.\u201d<\/p>\n

With Antetokounmpo in place<\/a>, 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\u2019s event, are the only other point guards on the roster.<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean, people have their opinions,\u201d Mitchell said of those questioning whether the Heat have enough at his position. \u201cPeople are going to say what they got to say. For me, I\u2019m just trying to be the best player I can be.<\/p>\n

\u201cHonestly, I can\u2019t really change the way they think. But for me, I\u2019m 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mitchell said the time last month in Greece with Antetokounmpo was particularly meaningful.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust meeting him and kind of getting that working, yeah, it was amazing,\u201d he said. \u201cI mean, he\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean, obviously, he\u2019s been in the league for so long that he knows how everyone\u2019s going to guard him, then he knows how everyone\u2019s going to guard me. So he\u2019s trying to find ways for me to be successful, and I\u2019m just trying to do the things for him. So it was great conversations, even at dinner, just talking about everything, talking about life.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI \u2014 There was plenty to address with Davion Mitchell on Thursday at the Miami Heat\u2019s back-to-school event,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[114,123,125,2490,124,2295,110],"class_list":["post-364561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-latest-headlines","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-heat","tag-miami-news","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}