Miami Heat Roundtable: Is price worth it for Kevin Durant or Donovan Mitchell?
Miami Heat: Price worth it for Kevin Durant or Donovan Mitchell – Colton’s Take
Half of the question is super easy to answer, despite what some Miami Heat fans may want to believe. With that said, anyone is on the table in the Kevin Durant conversation.
Colton’s Take (@CMoleskyNBC15)
Whoever you can sell to get KD and maintain the integrity of the team as a championship contender, you take the call. It’s Durant, the best scoring forward in the league’s history.
That’s the end of the conversation. But—pushing your chips into the center of the table for Donovan Mitchell is a bit more complex.
Mitchell is already an excellent scorer who has grown as a bucket-getter since his rookie year.
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He also has a lot of postseason reps, with 39 playoff games under his belt.
Say what you will about the success of the postseason runs, but this is a man who averaged 36 points per game in the 2019-2020 NBA Playoffs. The ability to take over a playoff series is something special and valuable.
However, Mitchell’s usage rate is incredibly high, ranking sixth amongst players who played over 50 games. Miami ranked 8th in assists per game last season, compared to Utah Jazz’s 27th ranking.
Miami needs a guard willing to move the ball and flow with the offense, not wrestle for control of it. If the Heat make a move for Mitchell, overinvesting would be the fear.
The trade should involve, either, lots of picks or a really attractive piece, but not both.