The Cavaliers star shrugged off his exclusion from the 2026 East All-Star starters.
Cleveland Cavaliers superstar Donovan Mitchell kept it simple upon learning that he didn't make it to the cut of the official Eastern Conference starters in this year's NBA All-Star Game.
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"To be honest, I kind of expected that," he said after the Cavs' 136-104 blowout loss against the OKC Thunder. "The guys that were named, their record is better than ours, so naturally you reward that.
"Obviously, yeah, I want to be a starter for sure, but I understand that at the end of the day, we win games, everybody gets rewarded. We haven’t won games at the rate we would like to, and that’s what comes first—everything else comes with that."
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