Pros, cons of Zach Lowe’s proposed Cavs trade for Donovan Mitchell
The Cleveland Cavaliers have an incandescent future, built on the shoulders of three young stars. Jarrett Allen and Darius Garland both made the All-Star Team a year ago, while Evan Mobley was an All-Defense candidate and standout rookie in his first season. All will be 24 years or younger for the entirety of next season.
Navigating the path from lottery team to contender is a difficult one for any team, but the Cavs have a great head start. Now they have to decide whether building depth pieces around their young core is the way to go, or whether a blockbuster move to add one more star makes the most sense.
Zach Lowe proposed a trade on his podcast that would bring Donovan Mitchell to Cleveland. What are the pros and cons of the Cavs adding the All-Star guard?
That is a decision they may need to make as early as this summer, as the Utah Jazz are reportedly open to trading All-Star guard Donovan Mitchell. Would the Cavs jump into that conversation? We dove into some of the important pieces of information that matter for any trade discussion: the money, the contracts and the CBA intricacies at play.
Then things blossomed again on Zach Lowe’s podcast “The Lowe Post” Thursday night, when he and fellow ESPN reporter Tim MacMahon, who among other teams covers the Utah Jazz for ESPN, discussed potential Donovan Mitchell trade partners. Lowe had this to say when bringing up the Cleveland Cavaliers:
“Cleveland. Caris LeVert, Lauri Markkanen, Isaac Okoro, Cedi Osman for Bogdanovic, Mitchell and…let’s say three picks, 25, 27 and 29…Cleveland has sniffed around some of the guards that have come available in the last year, and if you can somehow get Mitchell with [Garland, Allen and Mobley] I think that’s interesting”
He goes on to say that he doesn’t know if Utah would be interested without one of the “Big 3” of Garland, Allen and Mobley involved, and that Collin Sexton could end up as part of the deal instead of two of the above players. Let’s just run with this proposal, though, in the event that the Jazz do like this collection of pieces. What are the pros and cons for the Cavs in offering such a trade?