{"id":497229,"date":"2026-05-18T07:32:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T05:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=497229"},"modified":"2026-05-18T07:32:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T05:32:23","slug":"cleveland-cavaliers-mitchell-after-game-7-a-breath-of-fresh-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/cleveland-cavaliers-mitchell-after-game-7-a-breath-of-fresh-air\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleveland Cavaliers, Mitchell after Game 7: \u201cA breath of fresh air\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1242\" data-end=\"1543\">The <strong data-start=\"1246\" data-end=\"1269\">Cleveland Cavaliers<\/strong> finally cleared the second-round hurdle and advanced to the Eastern Conference Finals with a dominant 125-94 Game 7 road win over the <strong data-start=\"1404\" data-end=\"1423\">Detroit Pistons<\/strong>. For <strong data-start=\"1429\" data-end=\"1449\">Donovan Mitchell<\/strong>, reaching the conference finals for the first time in his career was \u201ca breath of fresh air.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1545\" data-end=\"1835\">Mitchell explained the meaning of the moment: \u201cEven last year, when we lost to Indiana, we had our goals set on getting to the Finals. We&#8217;re just one step closer.\u201d Coach <strong data-start=\"1715\" data-end=\"1733\">Kenny Atkinson<\/strong> pointed to the team\u2019s growth: \u201cThis was the next step for us,\u201d adding: \u201cWe still have more to prove.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1837\" data-end=\"2224\">The win also featured major contributions from <strong data-start=\"1884\" data-end=\"1901\">Jarrett Allen<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"1903\" data-end=\"1918\">Evan Mobley<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1923\" data-end=\"1938\">Sam Merrill<\/strong>, as Cleveland had four players score at least 20 points. Mitchell joked about Allen: \u201cGame 7 JA,\u201d while Merrill summed up the playoff path: \u201cIt\u2019s a grind.\u201d The Cavs enjoyed the moment, but Mitchell made it clear: \u201cWe can only breathe for about 12 hours. And then get right back to it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2226\" data-end=\"2363\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cleveland Cavaliers finally cleared the second-round hurdle and advanced to the Eastern Conference<\/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-497229","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\/497229","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=497229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497229\/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=497229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497229"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=497229"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=497229"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=497229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}