{"id":532771,"date":"2026-09-19T19:36:36","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T17:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=532771"},"modified":"2026-09-19T19:36:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T17:36:37","slug":"davion-mitchell-says-pat-riley-told-him-to-lose-weight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/davion-mitchell-says-pat-riley-told-him-to-lose-weight\/","title":{"rendered":"Davion Mitchell says Pat Riley told him to lose weight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pat Riley and Erik Spoelstra gave Davion Mitchell a clear offseason assignment: lose weight and improve his conditioning. The point guard revealed the message from his exit meeting during an appearance on the <em>Deuce &amp; Mo Podcast<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere was no basketball talk,\u201d Mitchell said. \u201cIt was, \u2018Get your weight down. Be in shape. That\u2019s all we want.\u2019\u201d He described the request as a perfect example of the demanding culture established by the Miami Heat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mitchell started all 70 of his appearances in 2025-26, averaging 9.3 points and a career-high 6.5 assists. He also shot 49.0% from the field and 39.5% from three while establishing himself as Miami\u2019s starting point guard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Heat president and Erik Spoelstra identified conditioning as the point guard\u2019s main priority entering the new season<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":372525,"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-532771","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\/Miami-Heay.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532771","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=532771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":532772,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532771\/revisions\/532772"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532771"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=532771"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=532771"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=532771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}