{"id":493116,"date":"2026-04-16T15:58:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T13:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=493116"},"modified":"2026-04-16T15:58:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T13:58:28","slug":"donovan-mitchell-pledges-loyalty-to-cavaliers-i-want-to-stay-in-cleveland-as-long-as-i-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/donovan-mitchell-pledges-loyalty-to-cavaliers-i-want-to-stay-in-cleveland-as-long-as-i-can\/","title":{"rendered":"Donovan Mitchell pledges loyalty to Cavaliers: \u201cI want to stay in Cleveland as long as I can\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1561\" data-end=\"1851\"><strong data-start=\"1561\" data-end=\"1581\">Donovan Mitchell<\/strong> made it clear once again that he wants to remain with the <strong data-start=\"1640\" data-end=\"1663\">Cleveland Cavaliers<\/strong> for a long time. Ahead of the <strong data-start=\"1694\" data-end=\"1715\">2026 NBA Playoffs<\/strong>, the star guard said he feels deeply connected to the city and the organization, stressing that he does not want to play anywhere else.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1853\" data-end=\"2119\">\u201c<strong data-start=\"1854\" data-end=\"1937\">I love Cleveland. I\u2019ve said it before: I want to play here for as long as I can<\/strong>,\u201d Mitchell said, adding that his goal is to keep winning at the highest level. His words further strengthen the bond between the Cavs star and a place he says truly feels like home.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2121\" data-end=\"2384\">Mitchell also admitted he does not understand why some people still doubt his commitment to Cleveland. At a crucial point in the season, the message is clear: the Cavaliers\u2019 leader is focused on the present, but he also sees his future staying with the franchise.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2386\" data-end=\"2483\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"><strong data-start=\"2386\" data-end=\"2397\">Source:<\/strong> <em data-start=\"2398\" data-end=\"2423\">The Athletic, Sam Amick<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cavs star reaffirmed his bond with the franchise ahead of the 2026 NBA Playoffs<\/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":[175],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-493116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","rumors-nba-rumors","typology-rumors"],"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\/493116","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=493116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493116\/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=493116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493116"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=493116"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=493116"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=493116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}