Report: Donovan Mitchell May Not Sign Extension With Cavaliers This Offseason

According to Brian Windhorst of ESPN, Donovan Mitchell may not sign an extension with the Cleveland Cavaliers this offseason. 

Starting on July 7, Mitchell can sign an extension with the Cavaliers that adds four years and $277 million to his current deal. Adding four seasons would require Mitchell to decline his player option for the 2027-28 season.

Next season is Mitchell's 10th in the NBA. If the former Utah Jazz guard waits until next summer for a new contract, the Cavaliers can sign him to a five-year, roughly $352 million deal.

Mitchell will make $50,105,628 next season. He put up 27.9 points per game for the Cavaliers this regular season and guided Cleveland to the conference finals for the first time since 1992 without LeBron James on the roster.

However, the New York Knicks swept the Cavaliers in the conference finals. 

It will be fascinating to see what happens between Mitchell and the Cavaliers this offseason. Is Mitchell going to agree to an extension with a team that just got swept in the East Finals and went 8-10 in the playoffs overall? Are the Cavaliers comfortable paying Mitchell this massive sum of money if they aren't sure if he can be a true No. 1 option on a championship team? These are the questions that Mitchell and the Cavaliers will be thinking about this summer.

For what it's worth, Mitchell wrote in his diary for Andscape after the conference finals that he wants to spend the rest of his NBA career with the Cavaliers. 

"I feel like this [contract extension talk] has been a consistent theme every single season I've been here. And I thought it would go away once I signed the first extension, but here we are. I said it [Monday night]: I love it here. I see growth. I see a runway. I believe. I've made Cleveland home outside of just basketball. I don't want to go. I don't really know how else to blatantly say it to people for them to believe me.

"If they don't believe me, then hey, who cares? I don't care. The organization knows and everybody in the building knows and feels the way I feel. I've been saying this since I first got to Cleveland. I was called [out], Oh, he’s lying. I was about to sign my extension three years ago, Oh, he's lying. Signed it. They're like, Oh, [he's] not signing the long term. Whatever. There's always going to be something, I guess. So, Cleveland, you know how I feel. This is just for everybody else."

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