Cavaliers’ Donovan Mitchell Admits He Nearly Pursued Different Sport, Was ‘Trash’ at Basketball

Donovan Mitchell has proven to be one of the more explosive playmakers in the NBA. And at the age of 27, it’s likely he still has a long career ahead of him, but we almost didn’t get to witness Mitchell, the basketball player. Instead, the Cavaliers guard was close to pursuing baseball.

“Every day I’m like, ‘Man, I miss the game [baseball]‘ … I was really good at baseball, I was trash at basketball,” Mitchell told Tidal League’s Run Your Race podcast. “So I’m like, I wanna keep building on this, I want to keep going. I definitely thought about baseball, but I was like, ‘I’m gonna keep building and I just want to see how far this can take us.”

“Every day I’m like 'I miss the game'... I was really good at baseball, I was trash at basketball... I definitely thought about baseball but I was like 'I'm gonna keep building', I just want to see how far this could take us."

—Donovan Mitchell

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— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPoints) December 11, 2023