A report last month identified the Heat, Kings, and Hawks as a few of the teams with interest in Donovan Mitchell, but John Gambadoro of Arizona Sports 98.7 (via Twitter) disputes the notion that those three clubs are actually pursuing the Jazz guard.
Gambadoro’s report doesn’t come as a major surprise. Shams Charania of The Athletic, who first said those teams were among Mitchell’s possible suitors, hasn’t mentioned them since. When Charania and Tony Jones reported last week that the Knicks had re-engaged with the Jazz about Mitchell, The Athletic named the Wizards and Hornets as some other teams with interest. Gambadoro confirmed today that Washington and Charlotte remain in play for Mitchell.
Here’s more on Mitchell, who is now the biggest star available with Kevin Durant off the trade market:
- The Cavaliers, Lakers, and Nets are among the other teams with interest in Mitchell, according to Gambadoro. While that may be true, it’s hard to envision any of those clubs putting together a viable package for the Jazz star. The Lakers only have two first-round picks available to trade (2027 and 2029), while Brooklyn can’t acquire Mitchell as long as Ben Simmons remains on the roster, and Utah seems unlikely to be interested in Simmons as a centerpiece. The Cavs, meanwhile, just signed Darius Garland to a five-year, maximum-salary extension, so it’d be surprising if they gave up a ton of assets for another 6’1″ lead guard.
- Addressing a New York Post report, Gambadoro says the Jazz never asked for seven first-round picks in a package for Mitchell. The Knicks are one of the few teams with the ability to give up that many first-rounders in a trade, since they’ve acquired a few picks from other teams in addition to hanging onto their own.
- Tony Jones of The Athletic weighs how the Jazz would benefit from trading Mitchell and how they’d benefit from hanging onto him.
Trade :
Kings send PG Fox & 3 1st round picks & 2 2nd round picks
to
Utah for PG Mitchell
Ainge hangs up the phone before you finish talking
You must truly hate SAC, right?
Fox is better than Mitchell, come on man stop the hate!
Not as a Defender !! And, there is a Reason 23 Teams out of 30 want him on their Team !! Though I do believe Ainge is asking way, way too much for one player.
@KHE… Mitchell ain’t a better defender than Fox, that’s for sure!
I’d rather have Fox and the picks. I know Sac fans wanna see the post season but Mitchell can only get them there. And then what? Keep the picks and don’t mention his name again. I get wanting to put brothers together but this is a pipe dream turned bad trip
Well, you have to start somewhere and Mitchell is a better Defender than Fox.
No.
Honest question.
Is a local Arizona radio personality a more reliable source than Shams?
Is shams reliable?
Yeah,I mean he’s no Woj but it would seem he’d be a more reliable source than an Arizona radio guy with no connection to the Jazz or Danny Ainge that o know of.
I mentioned earlier. ALL of Shams “scoop” comes from like 2 agents. He has no other info.
Gambadoro is far more plugged-in than your average radio host. Both he and Shams are reliable — I don’t think it’s out of the question that both are right about the Heat, Kings, and Hawks (ie. they had some interest at one point, like Shams said, but aren’t currently in the mix, like Gambo said).
Thank you Luke, I wasn’t being snarky I just honestly wanted to know.
Heat don’t have enough unless they give up Herro is which I don’t see happening
Kings, I mean sure, Fox Mitchell Sabonis sounds extremely weird. But you’d mostly likely have to give up Barnes (salary matching) and Murray plus maybe Mitchell. Leaving them with no front court and gutting the team off all its young players. But it’s the kings so WTF
Hawks make zero sense Trae DeJounte and Mitchell… what DeJounte at the 3? Just cause he was playing hard against Paolo Banchero doesn’t mean he’s ready to be the SF?
Wizards you have Bradley Beal, what are you going to do put Donovan at point guard? Then have Spida and Beal just play iso ball yeah mean 30 win season coming up
Hornets now I like this idea.
Gordan Hayward for salary matching,
PJ Washington, James Bouknight, Kai Jones, JT Thor, Jalen McDaniels and Bryce McGowens as available young players. Plus they have picks.
*Miles Bridges is probably not playing ball again*
If the Knicks offer Fouriner, Toppin and 5 first (2 unprotected) what can the Hornets offer?
Hayward, McDaniels, Bouknight and 3 firsts all unprotected….
Mitchell is more on a timeline with Fox and Sabonis than Murray or Davion Mitchell. I’m not talking age because I realize that Davion is nearly the age as Fox, but Fox has been in the league for 5 years.
Donovan played point in his rookie year and spelled Conley but Beal’s and Mitchell’s games are pretty redundant.
I like the Hornets idea somewhat but concerning Hayward most Jazz fans aren’t as forgiving as I am.
I think the Kings can make a competitive offer to counter the Knicks as Murray seems a more intriguing guy to build around them Toppin or Grimes but as a fan of Mitchell for his sake I’d rather have him playing on New York.
Yeah the kings idea is weird to me Fox Mitchell Sabonis. Fox and Mitchell both aren’t great outside shooters, both like the ball in their hands a lot too. Speaking of which Sabonis likes getting lots of touches aswell. Then defensively all three aren’t good.
I think they’d make the playoffs probably but be gone first round ever time.
However the kings are all about getting in a big name and trying to win and not actually build anything in particular.
For the Jazz, I really rate Keegan Murray he’d be awesome to start a rebuild with especially if your tanking for Victor or Scoot in the draft.
As for the Wizards it just doesn’t make sense. Who are they going to give up? KP for salary matching then Johnny Davis, Deni Avdija and Corey Kispert plus picks.
Then you left with Donovan Beal Kuzma and nothing else, again another team with big names and no defence and it would be a first round exit at best.
The Hornets, I just think Lamelo and Donovan would be cool together plus I think Mark Williams the rookie centre will develop into a solid player aswell and that’s a nice trio.
As for the Jazz I think Gordon would smooth it over easily enough, plus they have some decent young talent and picks.
But as you said ultimately for Donovan’s sake I’d like to see him in New York and with the Knicks. On paper Brunson Donovan RJ and Julius it’s a terrible fit but with another trade or something it could look really good
You realize that Herro has already been offered as trade bait to many teams. Outside of Adebayo, I don’t see a trade scenario the Heat can put together.
Kings would want to trade Fox, not pair him with Donovan. Although, I could see them wanting to go all in on vets. If the Kings were offering Keegan Murray and Davion with picks then I could see the Jazz bite. Keep in mind, Keegan just had wrist surgery.
The Hawks’ and Wizards’ offerings don’t match what the Jazz want to do if they trade Donovan. At least they don’t have enough outside of the guys those teams are willing to trade.
The Hornets’ young guys are similar to the Knicks young guys. Some flashes but hard to justify trading the star of your team for them. That’s why the unprotected picks are needed.
Your exact trade offer, from the Knicks, the Jazz already turned down. That means they would rather keep Donovan then take that weak offer. The picks have too many protections. Some could convert into 2nd round picks. That’d be a terrible trade for a star player. That’s why the Jazz insist on unprotected picks.
The Jazz need assurances that they could one day replace Donovan with a future pick. For most teams it takes many tries to find that one guy.
If the Heat give up Herro they also need to salary match which likely means Kyle Lowry is gone or Duncan Robinson plus Jovic plus picks just for Donovan Mitchell I doubt that’ll happen.
Kings giving up Fox, Jazz won’t be interested. They want really young guys and picks and are targeting Victor Wambayma in the draft. They won’t want Fox just as how the Knicks offered RJ and Randle and they turned that down. It’ll be Murray, Mitchell, Barnes (Salary matching) and picks which is heaps and guts the team like I said.
Then you said your exact trade offer from the Knicks the Jazz turned down, yes exactly that’s why I used it as a reference for what the Hornets could offer to rival the Knicks. It’s about on par but maybe they would actually prefer it?
The Jazz just got a huge haul for Gobert and want the same for Mitchell and then will go full rebuild. They don’t really want to keep him cause if they keep him all they’ve done is made the team worse for trying to win and in terms of trying to rebuild they would’ve missed their chance at Victor cause they would’ve won to many games.
Denver makes sense to me. Some type of combination of Porter, Gordon, Murray and picks.
Both Murray and Porter are damaged goods. The Jazz went through that with Dante Exum, Rodney Hood, Derek Favors, and Mike Conley. I doubt they’d willingly trade for them unless it was for both of them and maybe young players/picks just in case.
Anywhere but the Knicks, for Donovan Mitchell please!!!
IMO
The best ever trade idea from reporters
Lakers trade Westbrook and picks for Mitchell via third team
Third team offer assets
It’s about friendship with Lakers
When have the Lakers ever been helpful to another team? They’re usually the one fleecing the other team for their star or vice versa.
Although, I will say that New Orleans did get a nice package for sending Anthony Davis to the Lakers. The Heat trade for Shaq was pretty one-sided for the Lakers; especially since Miami only got a short window from Shaq.
The problem is the Lakers don’t have anything close to that now. Everything they offer now is just a desperation plea. The best the Lakers can hope for is someone takes on Westbrook’s contract for one of the other team’s contracts for pick or two, depending on the difference.
I could see a Westbrook plus 1st round pick for Conley, Gay, Ingles 9.7M exception?, plus a 2nd round pick or a resigned Whiteside. If they wanted Bojan as well then they’d need to include another 1st round pick, THT and Nunn.
Then wait to release Westbrook to see if he’d suit up for the Jazz. Any issues he had with random fans, those fans were banned already. Plus, they’d be on his side now. Lol
The Jazz currently only have 8.1M in luxury tax space. That means in order the trade for Westbrook, the Jazz would have to trade out quite a bit of salary. I don’t remember what percentage it would have to be? Within 10%-15%? Anyone know?
Just come home player !!!!!
Rick Pitino: Donovan Mitchell ‘would treasure’ playing for Knicks
link to nypost.com
Donovan Mitchell is a All Star and a nice talent but the New York Knicks need to be careful not to give up to much for him.
Rudy Gobert is better than Donovan Mitchell and that’s why the Minnesota Timberwolves gave up so much. Rudy impacts winning. Donovan Mitchell don’t impact winning like that.
If I’m Leon Rose I’m not trying to do no business with Danny Ainge because he’s always trying to get over.
I don’t think a short backcourt of Jalen Brunson and Donovan Mitchell is a smart idea because it can hurt them defensively.
I think Quentin Grimes skill set compliments Jalen Brunson better.
Gobert definitely impacts winning but so does Mitchell. After losing Hayward and Hill everyone thought the Jazz would fall off and tank for a couple years. Mitchell came in as a rookie and carried the team offensively. It wasn’t just Gobert either, the team struggled at the start of the season but markedly improved as Mitchell got more and more playing time.
Mitchell is an offensive dynamo. He can score from all three levels, he can pull up from deep if his defender sags and with that quick 1st step he can basically get to whatever spot he wants. He’s also come into his own as a passer. When he broke in he had tunnel vision. Sure he could get where he wanted to go but if that didn’t work out the only recourse was to force a bad shot or reset the offense. These days he can kick out and find an open shooter and keep the offense moving.
D Mitchell and Clarkson for Tray young, Hunter and one first round pick.
Hawks starting lineup:
Mitchell
Dejounte
Bogdanovic
Collins
Cappela
You know the Atlanta Hawks ain’t trading Trae Young smh
Grimes,Fournier,2 1sts and one of the unprotected 1sts. Like it or lump it.