{"id":1586698,"date":"2024-07-02T15:11:38","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T19:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/?p=1586698"},"modified":"2024-07-02T15:11:38","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T19:11:38","slug":"donovan-mitchell-cavaliers-agree-to-three-year-150-3m-contract-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/news\/donovan-mitchell-cavaliers-agree-to-three-year-150-3m-contract-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Donovan Mitchell, Cavaliers Agree to Three-Year, $150.3M Contract Extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five-time All-Star guard Donovan Mitchell and the Cleveland Cavaliers have agreed to a three-year, $150.3 million maximum contract extension that includes a player option for the 2027-28 season, according to ESPN&#8217;s Adrian Wojnarowski.<\/p>\n<h2>Cleveland Cavaliers guard Donovan Mitchell could pursue a five-year extension worth more than $380 million in 2027<\/h2>\n<p>The deal allows the Cavaliers to keep their franchise player under contract beyond next <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/nba\/\">NBA<\/a> season. As for Mitchell, it delivers a guaranteed four years, $185 million total and a chance to reach the league&#8217;s 10-year service criteria. This would give Mitchell the greenlight to seek a five-year extension worth more than $380 million in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell and his agent, Austin Brown \u2014 co-head of CAA Basketball \u2014 met with Cavaliers president of basketball operations Koby Altman on Saturday in Los Angeles and reached an agreement on the extension, sources informed Wojnarowski.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: Cleveland Cavaliers All-Star guard Donovan Mitchell has agreed on a three-year, $150.3 million maximum contract extension that includes a player option for the 2027-2028 season, sources tell ESPN. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Vu6QXGyK57\">pic.twitter.com\/Vu6QXGyK57<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wojespn\/status\/1808122050684276963?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 2, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to ESPN&#8217;s report, Mitchell committed to a new contract after the Cavaliers informed the seven-year veteran and his representatives that the organization intends to continue building a championship roster.<\/p>\n<p>In September 2022, the Cavaliers acquired Mitchell in a trade with the Utah Jazz that dealt Ochai Agbaji, Lauri Markkanen, Collin Sexton, three unprotected first-round picks (2025, 2027, 2029), and two pick swaps in 2026 and 2028.<\/p>\n<h2>Mitchell scored a combined 89 points in Games 6 and 7 of the Cavs&#8217; 2024 first-round playoff series victory<\/h2>\n<p>Furthermore, in 55 games (all starts) of the 2023-24 season, Mitchell averaged 26.6 points and career highs of 5.1 rebounds, 6.1 assists, and 1.8 steals per game while shooting 46.2% from the field and 36.8% from 3-point range.<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell had 89 points in Games 6 and 7 of Cleveland&#8217;s first-round playoff series victory over the Orlando Magic, second most in NBA postseason history for Games 6 and 7, per ESPN Stats &amp; Information.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Mitchell is the first guard to average a minimum of 20 points in each of his first seven seasons since NBA Hall of Famer and Philadelphia 76ers legend Allen Iverson.<\/p>\n<p>In Cleveland&#8217;s 145-134 overtime win against the Chicago Bulls on Jan. 2, 2023, Donovan Mitchell scored a career-high 71 points and scored or assisted on 99 points, the second-most in NBA history since Wilt Chamberlain.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, Chamberlain scored or assisted on 104 points from his 100-point outing versus New York on March 2, 1962. Mitchell became the\u00a0first player in NBA history to record over 70 points and 10 assists in a single game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five-time All-Star guard Donovan Mitchell and the Cleveland Cavaliers have agreed to a three-year, $150.3 million maximum contract extension that includes a player option for the 2027-28 season, according to ESPN&#8217;s Adrian Wojnarowski. Cleveland Cavaliers guard Donovan Mitchell could pursue a five-year extension worth more than $380 million in 2027 The deal allows the Cavaliers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":305,"featured_media":1586701,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[447470,4848,447423,91,447424],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.3 (Yoast SEO v22.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Donovan Mitchell, Cavs Agree to Three-Year, $150.3M Extension<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Five-time All-Star guard Donovan Mitchell and the Cleveland Cavaliers have agreed to a three-year, $150.3 million maximum contract extension.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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