re: Anyone for a Mitchell CJ trade?

There’s nothing this team needs less right now than Donovan Mitchell taking 30 shots a game and playing no defense on a max contract.

His mentality and skill set do not fit this roster. We already have our A-level players in BI and Zion. Our success will come from those two reaching their full potential and filling the rest of the roster out with great role players.

Plus as others have said the leadership and professionalism that CJ has brought can’t be understated. He is the perfect mentor for BI and Zion. You can’t throw that away unless you’re getting back a guy that pushes you into contender mode right away. Mitchell absolutely does not do that.

Clarkson:
27 minutes
14.1 APG
.419 % overall
.318 3pt% (7.6 per game)
3.5 RBG
2.5 APG
1.6 TOV
29 years old
14.6 million

Graham:
28.4 minutes
10.7 APG
.363 % overall
.341 3 pt (7.4 per game)
2.3 RBG
4.3 APG
1.4 TOV
27 years old
11.5 million

I’ll keep Graham

Graham is also a career 36% 3 point shooter, Clarkson is career 33%, we would at best be swapping similar players and spending more money and assets to do it.

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There’s nothing this team needs less right now than Donovan Mitchell taking 30 shots a game and playing no defense on a max contract.

His mentality and skill set do not fit this roster. We already have our A-level players in BI and Zion. Our success will come from those two reaching their full potential and filling the rest of the roster out with great role players.

Plus as others have said the leadership and professionalism that CJ has brought can’t be understated. He is the perfect mentor for BI and Zion. You can’t throw that away unless you’re getting back a guy that pushes you into contender mode right away. Mitchell absolutely does not do that.

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The other thing is, any trade for Mitchell would almost assuredly either wipe out our draft assets(which would likely go to another team to facilitate players to Utah so they can keep winning), or, would cost key players on our roster like Trey/Herb/CJ.

Plus there is the question of leadership and personality fit. Mitchell seems like someone that would really like to end up somewhere like NY, and probably wont humble himself til he experiences it.

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I'm not advocating for the trade, but a big 3 of Ingram, Zion and Mitchell should be (on paper) a Championship level contender

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Yea it’s a pretty crazy trade idea for a player that’s been an all star the last three years and is just entering his prime on the same exact time line of all of our other players.

He’s the best player on a team that’s made the playoffs every year culminating with the number one seed last year. We surly couldn’t use that on this team. Especially for a player that has never made an all star team. What was I thinking?

Honestly, think the point is moot anyway. He seems destined for a big market.

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Especially for a player that has never made an all star team

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This is such a dumb point to make especially considering CJ was Robin while Donovan is supposed to be the guy in Utah.

I’d rather (prime) Mike Conley than Mitchell and he never made an all star game while in his prime.

Downvote #107 checking in.

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Mitchell is the most overrated “star” player I can recall over the past 20 years.

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There in lies the problem. I don’t see any stars (not at 25 entering their prime years anyway) being made available via trade any time soon.

Mitchell is only a “star” because the media tells you he is.

Sure - he has the potential to be that guy. I’m not tryna say he’s garbage but I wouldn’t want to be the team maxing him is all. I have more faith in CJ being a difference maker for the Pels both on and off the court over the next 3 or 4 years than I would Mitchell if y’all swapped the two. As bad as CJ was for y’all in the playoffs, seriously go watch Donovan. Don’t just look at his stats. Go watch some highlights or rewatch the games. He looks like Jordan Clarkson but with a longer leash.