{"id":512942,"date":"2026-05-26T03:37:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T07:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=512942"},"modified":"2026-05-26T03:37:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T07:37:03","slug":"mitchell-harden-see-future-with-cleveland-despite-knicks-sweep","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/mitchell-harden-see-future-with-cleveland-despite-knicks-sweep\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitchell, Harden see future with Cleveland despite Knicks sweep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the Cavs were swept by the NY Knicks in the East Conference finals, Donovan Mitchell shared his commitment to the franchise and shared that he is happy to play alongside James Harden and claimed that he would be happy to see the team\u2019s core remain intact.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have no doubt that we can win the championship in the future with these players,\u201d Donovan shared after Cleveland\u2019s 130-93 defeat in Game 4. \u201cI have already shared that during the whole season. The most important thing is that we learn our lesson from this. It\u2019s not easy, and it\u2019s harsh, but now we know.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Knicks that eliminate us today had to go through this. Maybe not exactly the same, but they remained together and now have success. We must do the same.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell advanced to the conference finals for the 1<sup>st<\/sup> time in his 9 seasons in the NBA, and claimed that he and Cleveland took a step forward after being eliminated in the postseason in the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> round of each of the previous 2 campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>This was the 1<sup>st<\/sup> time the Cavs reached the conference finals in almost 10 years.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;I love it here. I don&#39;t know how else to say it. I&#39;ve said it before I signed the other extension. I love it here. I have no doubt this group can get there. We have unfinished business.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Cavs?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Cavs<\/a> G Donovan Mitchell on his future in Cleveland <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wYuIwoja0r\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/wYuIwoja0r<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; 92.3 The Fan (@923TheFan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/923TheFan\/status\/2059130327298129970?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 26, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the Cavs were swept by the NY Knicks in the East Conference finals, Donovan Mitchell shared his commitment to the franchise and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":512943,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17682],"news_category":[16706,14084],"gn_keywords":[18366],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"Cavaliers\u2019 stars are committed to the team after the playoff exit.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/512942"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/512942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":512944,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/512942\/revisions\/512944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/512943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512942"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=512942"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=512942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}