{"id":584202,"date":"2026-04-14T19:16:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T19:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/584202\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T19:16:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T19:16:12","slug":"the-reasons-it-seems-like-heats-davion-mitchell-is-related-to-cavs-donovan-mitchell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/584202\/","title":{"rendered":"The reasons it seems like Heat’s Davion Mitchell is related to Cavs’ Donovan Mitchell"},"content":{"rendered":"

The reasons it seems like Heat’s Davion Mitchell is related to Cavs’ Donovan Mitchell<\/a> originally appeared on The Sporting News<\/a>. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Davion Mitchell is the kind of guy who fans notice more once the postseason rolls around.<\/p>\n

Advertisement<\/p>\n

The Miami Heat<\/a> guard isn’t a big scorer, but he’s a winning player. He defends, distributes and does the little things.<\/p>\n

All of that to say: He’s not the same as Donovan Mitchell. For the Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a>, Donovan is a high-octane scorer who you’ll never overlook when he’s on the court.<\/p>\n

But those names, and those numbers, and those appearances — they’ve sure got a lot in common.<\/p>\n

MORE:\u00a0Everything to know about LaMelo Ball’s tattoos<\/a><\/p>\n

Is Davion Mitchell related to Donovan Mitchell?<\/p>\n

Despite the overlap, there’s no relation between Davion and Donovan Mitchell.<\/p>\n

Yes, they both wear the number 45 on their uniform.<\/p>\n

Advertisement<\/p>\n

Yes, they’ve both got that short, stocky guard energy going.<\/p>\n

Yes, their names are the same aside from the middle letters in their first names.<\/p>\n

But no, they aren’t related.<\/p>\n

They’ve faced off before on the court. That’s them at the top of the article with a postgame handshake.<\/p>\n

Last year, it even happened in the playoffs. Fans got a whole series of wondering how these similar Mitchell guards weren’t related.<\/p>\n

But that’s the way it is. It’s just one of the NBA’s weirdest coincidences.<\/p>\n

More basketball news:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The reasons it seems like Heat’s Davion Mitchell is related to Cavs’ Donovan Mitchell originally appeared on The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[8174,60836,13054,25179,8173,355,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-584202","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-cleveland-cavaliers","9":"tag-davion-mitchell","10":"tag-donovan-mitchell","11":"tag-lamelo-ball","12":"tag-miami-heat","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}