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Cleveland Cavaliers acquire Utah Jazz star Donovan Mitchell in blockbuster trade

Cleveland Gentlemen acquire Utah Jazz star Donovan Mitchell in blockbuster trade 

 

 After the New York Knicks temporarily walked down on addresses Monday night, the Cleveland Gentlemen aggressively pursued and acquired three- time All- Star guard Donovan Mitchell in a trade with the Utah Jazz on Thursday, sources told ESPN. 

The Gentlemen are transferring the Jazz forward Lauri Markkanen, novitiate sect Ochai Agbaji, guard Collin Sexton, three vulnerable first-round picks( 2025, 2027 and 2029) and two pick barters( 2026 and 2028) for Mitchell, sources said. 

 

 Sexton has agreed on a four- time,$ 72 million sign- and- trade deal to join the Jazz, his agent, Klutch Sports CEO Rich Paul, told ESPN. 

 The deal transforms the Gentlemen into an Eastern Conference contender with implicit staying power, adding Mitchell to a lineup that includes two 2022 All- Stars-- guard Darius Garland and center Jarrett Allen-- and novitiate of the Year runner- up Evan Mobley, who appears fated to come an All- NBA player. 

 

 As Utah reshapes its canon with offseason trades of All- Star Rudy Gobert and now Mitchell, the ballot has 13 vulnerable or smoothly defended first-round picks through 2029 and two 2022 first-round picks, including Kansas' Agbaji and 7- footer Walker Kessler, who arrived with four first-round picks from Minnesota. 

 Utah plans to continue addresses on disburdening stagers, including Bojan Bogdanovic, Jordan Clarkson and Mike Conley, and could be approaching an OklahomaCity-esque haul of draft means. 

 

 Cleveland chairman of basketball operations Koby Altman had been in conversations with the Jazz through late last week, but ended addresses Friday when the two brigades could not reach an agreement, sources said. nonetheless, Altman reached back out to Utah general director Justin Zanik on Tuesday morning and started the addresses again, sources said. Within 48 hours, they had a deal for Mitchell. 

New York had the means Utah preferred and the sides sounded to be inching near to a trade Sunday night and into Monday, but the Knicks baffled on including Quentin Grimes in a trade with RJ Barrett to acquire Mitchell, sources said. 

 

 When guard Immanuel Quickley was proposed as a relief for Grimes in the trade, Utah wanted three vulnerable first-round draft picks as part of the package-- but New York would only do a third first-round pick that included top- five protections, sources said. Those packages would've included Milwaukee's 2025 first-round pick, two alternate-round picks, two pick barters and two expiring contracts from a third platoon, sources said. New York would've moved out Evan Fournier and a first-round pick to a third platoon to spare Utah taking on Fournier's remaining$ 37 million, sources said. 

 New York and Utah bandied multitudinous duplications of a Mitchell trade, including a significant Knicks' original offer in early July previous to Mitchell Robinson subscribing his contract extension. Near the launch of addresses in early July, New York offered a package that would've included Barrett, Obi Toppin, Robinson and three vulnerable first-round picks, sources told ESPN. Utah turned down that offer, and Robinson inked his extension, basically barring the possibility he could come a part of a deal. 

 

 While in trade addresses with Utah, New York chairman Leon Rose was running a resemblant concession with Barrett's agent, Bill Duffy, on a novitiate contract extension and set Monday night as a deadline with the Jazz to get a deal-- or pause addresses to finalize a new deal with Barrett, sources said. Barrett's deal-- four times and worth up to$ 120 million, Duffy told ESPN-- added a" bane lozenge" provision to his contract until coming July and would've forced the Knicks and Jazz to renew addresses with new deal parameters grounded on the extension. 

 New York planned to continue pursuing Mitchell, sources said, but the Jazz rotated to the Cleveland conversations and noway again engaged the Knicks in addresses this week, sources said. The Knicks had made a advised adventure that they could still get a deal done for Mitchell. Born in the New York area, Mitchell had been enthusiastic about the possibility of playing for the Knicks, sources said. 

Mitchell came available in trade addresses after the Jazz moved Gobert to the Minnesota Timberwolves in July. Mitchell, 25, has equaled 23.9 points and4.5 assists per game during his five- time career with the Jazz, and he has been an All- Star each of the once three seasons. He has four times and$134.9 million remaining on the maximum extension he inked during the 2020 offseason, though the final season is a player option for$37.1 million. 

 Utah has made the playoffs the once six seasons, the longest current band in the Western Conference, but has not advanced past the alternate round during that span. The association has experienced major changes in the wake of last season's first-round exit against the Dallas loners, including the abdication of trainer Quin Snyder, the hiring of Will Hardy to replace him and the trades of Gobert and starting forward RoyceO'Neale.