CLEVELAND — Donovan Mitchell disagrees that the now broken up Utah Jazz core «didn't really believe in each other» as team CEO Danny Ainge said earlier this week. «I don't think we didn't believe (in each other),» Mitchell told ESPN Wednesday on his first day in Cleveland as a Cavalier following a Sept.
1 trade. «I said at the end of the season, don't trade (Rudy Gobert). Let's figure this out, let's do. And that didn't happen.
For him to say that after six months around the team, I disagree. But you know, at the end of the day, that's his decision.» Ainge, who was hired last December, traded Gobert to the Timberwolves in a draft-pick centered blockbuster in July and also dealt defensive specialist Royce O'Neale in a separate draft pick draft before moving Mitchell to the Cavs on Sept.
1. While the Cavs had been one of the teams that Mitchell knew had made an offer for him, he said he was shocked when he was sent to Cleveland instead of his hometown New York Knicks.