Debating the Donovan Mitchell Deal

The Cavs stunned the NBA world Thursday by exchanging for three-time All-Star Donovan Mitchell, as the Jazz proceed their remake.

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Our NBA authors make an appearance as the residue keeps on settling.

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They'll have a science to resolve, yet it's an arrangement the Cavs needed to make.

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Chris Herring: Good arrangement, yet I don't as yet know whether it's an extraordinary one

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However, Mitchell needs to become involved with what the Cavs have based on D.

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t's a reasonable swing, the cost is what a main 25 player costs in the ongoing NBA.

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, the award of the 2023 draft and the sort of player the Jazz would never draw in any case

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