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00:00Donovan Mitchell is not going anywhere. He remains a Cleveland Cavalier.
00:05Yeah, that's a big sign in there for Cleveland because you never want to lose your superstars,
00:09especially when they're young and in their prime. You want to keep them in town. And also we had to
00:13know that when that coach gets relieved, you're asking your superstar player, would you like this
00:19coach to be your coach? Would you like him to continue or do you want us to go in another
00:22direction? And if we do go in another direction here, Ben, who would you like that coach to be?
00:27Seemingly, you got the blessing from Donovan Mitchell on bringing in the new head coach.
00:31I like this for Cleveland. They were underwhelming last year and yes,
00:34they got injured into the playoffs, but this team has the basis here of some really good
00:39young talent that's yet here to see it mold into maybe a championship contender.
00:43Maybe we can get over the hump now because the biggest question in the room was,
00:47oh, is Donovan Mitchell going to go to the Los Angeles Lakers just like every other player?
00:51Nice to see him stay home. Now you can get on with your lives in Cleveland and start
00:54winning basketball games. So the Cavaliers this off-season, or this post-season, excuse me,
00:59get past the Orlando Magic in a low-scoring seven-game series. Then of course, very short-handed
01:06into the second round, they lose in five against the Boston Celtics that saw Donovan Mitchell
01:11miss the final few games of that set. They fired JB Bickerstaff, the rotating cast and crew
01:17around the NBA and the head coaching circle. Bickerstaff now in Detroit. Kenny Atkinson,
01:22former head coach of the Brooklyn Nets, worked under Steve Kerr the past few seasons for the
01:26Warriors. Now the new head man in Cleveland, Donovan Mitchell, who spent the past two
01:31NBA seasons with the Cavaliers. Each of those two years, a young core elevated by Spida,
01:37got them into the post-season, this year into the second round. But Donnie, what exactly is
01:43the ceiling for the Cavs? 20-1, the price on Cleveland to win the Eastern Conference. We just
01:49showed you the odds. The market has not moved since the news of Donovan Mitchell's contract
01:54extension. Three years worth $150.3 million, a little bit north of 50 mil per year on that annual
02:02average salary. And I would still say, at least in my estimation, despite Spida staying put,
02:09Cleveland is a playoff team at best, maybe second round, if that. This does not really make the
02:16Cavaliers by any means, in my estimation, a true conference contender out east. No, it doesn't. It
02:23certainly doesn't. And also take a look at what could have happened last year. You could have
02:26stepped into the void where the Sixers left because basically they were injured and underperforming.
02:31The Milwaukee Bucks left because they were injured and underperforming. You get the drift
02:34there, you might be able to make some way, but then again, you got to the playoffs and you got
02:38injured with your best players here. So you had to keep the superstar in town because that does
02:43attract other players to come along with them. But I think you're right here when you're just
02:46looking at Boston, Philadelphia, New York, Milwaukee, Orlando, and Miami right now,
02:52already ahead of the Cleveland Cavaliers in that odds market. Now, granted, I understand that the
02:56Magic Heat and Cavaliers have the same 20 to 1 price, but you just saw, hey, Mitchell is coming
03:02back right now. And all of a sudden you're saying, well, where's the odds moving here? Why aren't we
03:05locking at the fans of the sportsbook to push them up? So when you're that far down the list here,
03:09it doesn't give you a lot of inspiring content here for 2024 to say, you know what?
03:13Now's the year the Cavaliers are going to do this.