{"id":409833,"date":"2022-10-21T18:07:41","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T18:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=409833"},"modified":"2022-10-21T18:07:41","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T18:07:41","slug":"if-anything-were-to-happen-it-would-probably-be-on-that-side-cleveland-cavaliers-star-admits-to-potentially-joining-miami-heat-ahead-of-cavs-move-donovan-mitchell-bam-adebayo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/if-anything-were-to-happen-it-would-probably-be-on-that-side-cleveland-cavaliers-star-admits-to-potentially-joining-miami-heat-ahead-of-cavs-move-donovan-mitchell-bam-adebayo\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;If Anything Were to Happen, It Would Probably Be on That Side&#8221;: Cleveland Cavaliers Star Admits to Potentially Joining Miami Heat Ahead of Cavs Move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donovan Mitchell, a guard with the Cleveland Cavaliers, claimed on the &#8220;Old Man and the Three&#8221; podcast with J.J. Redick that he believed he would be dealt to the Miami Heat. Mitchell worked out with athletes like Darius Garland and Bam Adebayo this off-season.<\/p>\n<p>Several teams were interested in Mitchell, who recently deleted the Jazz from his social media biographies on Twitter and Instagram. The Heat was one of those teams. Mitchell&#8217;s familiarity with Jimmy Butler and Bam Adebayo led many to believe that the Heat were the favorites to sign him.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/k830W-bbYUA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>They all worked out together throughout the offseason, and Mitchell partnered with Adebayo during the Miami Summer Pro League. Donovan Mitchell was moved to the Cleveland Cavaliers, and the Miami Heat apparently never made an offer for him.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ALSO READ: <a title=\"Russell Westbrook shockingly blames Los Angeles Lakers for poor form and injuries\" href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/russell-westbrook-shockingly-blames-los-angeles-lakers-for-poor-form-and-injuries\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Russell Westbrook shockingly blames Los Angeles Lakers for poor form and injuries<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Donovan Mitchell reveals about potentially joining the Heat before Cleveland Cavaliers<\/h2>\n<p>When asked who he worked out with this summer, Mitchell revealed how things turned out.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cD.G.,\u201d<\/em> Mitchell <a href=\"https:\/\/heatnation.com\/videos\/donovan-mitchell-thought-training-with-bam-adebayo-in-offseason-was-preparation-to-potentially-join-miami-heat\/\">said<\/a>. <em>\u201cBut we didn\u2019t know any of this was happening. So we would be working out, and I said this to somebody, I was like, man I\u2019m working out Bam and others and I\u2019m thinking like, \u2018This is just preparing. This is what it\u2019s going to look like.\u2019 And D.G. is right here.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Donovan Mitchell thought training with Bam Adebayo in offseason was preparation to potentially join Miami Heat: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kgvqivP4AL\">https:\/\/t.co\/kgvqivP4AL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NBACentral (@TheDunkCentral) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheDunkCentral\/status\/1583471832723701760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 21, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cMiami, New York, where else?. Maybe Washington. Those were the three in my head that I thought, \u2018Okay, if anything were to happen, it would probably be on that side.\u2019\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_397434\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-397434\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-397434\" src=\"https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/07\/donovan-mitchell-jazz-nba-playoffs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/07\/donovan-mitchell-jazz-nba-playoffs.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/07\/donovan-mitchell-jazz-nba-playoffs-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/07\/donovan-mitchell-jazz-nba-playoffs-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/07\/donovan-mitchell-jazz-nba-playoffs-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-397434\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image Credits &#8211; SI<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Heat had been connected to Mitchell over the offseason, but the team lacked the draft picks necessary to match the Utah Jazz&#8217;s acquisition of Mitchell from the Cleveland Cavaliers. Three unprotected first-round picks in the 2025, 2027, and 2029 NBA Drafts were given up by Cleveland. 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Redick that he believed he would be dealt to the Miami Heat. Mitchell worked out with athletes like Darius Garland and Bam Adebayo this off-season. Several teams were interested in Mitchell, who recently deleted the Jazz [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":405157,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111,102,51],"tags":[556,387],"class_list":["post-409833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cleveland-cavaliers","category-miami-heat","category-nba","tag-bam-adebayo","tag-donovan-mitchell"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}