{"id":440721,"date":"2025-05-05T11:51:21","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T09:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=440721"},"modified":"2025-05-05T11:51:21","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T09:51:21","slug":"donovan-mitchell-scores-33-in-game-1-but-cavaliers-fall-to-pacers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/donovan-mitchell-scores-33-in-game-1-but-cavaliers-fall-to-pacers\/","title":{"rendered":"Donovan Mitchell scores 33 in Game 1, but Cavaliers fall to Pacers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" data-start=\"72\" data-end=\"472\">Despite dropping 33 points, <strong data-start=\"100\" data-end=\"120\">Donovan Mitchell<\/strong> couldn\u2019t prevent the Cleveland Cavaliers from falling 121-112 at home to the Indiana Pacers in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference semifinals. Mitchell made playoff history, becoming the first player since Michael Jordan to record <strong data-start=\"349\" data-end=\"406\">eight straight series openers with at least 30 points<\/strong>, but his 13-for-30 shooting and 1-for-11 from deep proved costly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"474\" data-end=\"698\">After the game, Mitchell remained composed and focused on the bigger picture: \u201c<strong data-start=\"553\" data-end=\"591\">This is nothing to freak out about<\/strong>,\u201d he said. \u201cThey made shots and set the tone on the road\u2014credit to them. But we\u2019re not hanging our heads.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"700\" data-end=\"863\">With Game 2 set for Tuesday in Cleveland, Mitchell made it clear the Cavaliers are ready to respond: \u201c<strong data-start=\"802\" data-end=\"862\">We didn\u2019t play our best basketball. But we\u2019ll be better.<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"865\" data-end=\"894\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite dropping 33 points, Donovan Mitchell couldn\u2019t prevent the Cleveland Cavaliers from falling 121-112 at home to the Indiana Pacers in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference semifinals<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":372530,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-440721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/Cleveland-Cavaliers.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440721"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=440721"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=440721"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=440721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}