Cavs, Donovan Mitchell Get Over the Hump, Big Offseason Questions & Thunder-Spurs Rivalry

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🗓️ 18 May 2026

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Donovan Mitchell and the Cleveland Cavaliers are headed to the Eastern Conference Finals after a blowout Game 7 win, but now comes the bigger question: can the Cavs keep it going against the Knicks? Wes Goldberg, Matt Moore and Haize break down Mitchell’s legacy moment, what it means for Cleveland, and whether the Cavs have a real chance to upset New York. Then, the crew looks at two eliminated playoff teams facing huge offseasons. Will the Detroit Pistons go all-in to build around Cade Cunningham and their young core? Do the Minnesota Timberwolves need major changes after falling short against the Spurs, or just the right tweaks around Anthony Edwards? Finally, Spurs-Thunder Game 1 tips off the Western Conference Finals, and this matchup could be the beginning of the NBA’s next defining rivalry. What makes Victor Wembanyama vs. Oklahoma City so fascinating? Subscribe to Locked On NBA Daily for daily NBA playoff coverage, offseason rumors, trade talk and smart basketball debate.

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0:00.0	Coming up on Locked-on NBA Daily.
0:03.2	Donovan Mitchell gets over the hump, but can the Cavs keep it going all the way to the NBA finals, or will the Knicks be too much?
0:09.9	Meanwhile, the Pistons and Timberwolves face big questions after falling short in the playoffs, and we get ready to kick off the most anticipated playoff series of the year.
0:17.6	Locked-on NBA Daily starts now.
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0:58.9	Hello and welcome back to Locked-on NBA Daily. I'm West Goldberg. That's Matt Moore and Hayes. We have a ton to get to today here on a Monday. The Spurs and the Thunder are going to kick off the Western Conference Finals tonight. And we've got questions about how the Timberwolves and the Pistons will handle their off-season. But let's start with the Cavaliers. Moving on to the Eastern Conference Finals, they recap the game on game night, guys, but I want to talk about what this means for Donald Mitchell in the bigger picture, because you could argue that there was
1:03.6	like this looper thing happening between Donovan Mitchell and James Hardin. Mitchell had never
1:08.5	gotten out of the second round. He was awful in game six. There was a lot of pressure on him going into game seven, but I thought he had his best all-around game of the playoffs last night. I thought he set the tone for Cleveland in what ended up being a blowout win. Here's more from Danny Cunningham over at Lockdown Cabs. And this to me, I do think, was the biggest game of Donovan's career.
1:28.6	I think that this was a legacy moment.
1:30.5	Now, the story is obviously not done being written.
1:33.8	And I don't think that the Cavs nor Donovan are satisfied with just getting to the
1:39.4	conference finals.
1:40.4	But this is something that hadn't been done before.
1:43.2	They've not gotten to this point
1:44.8	in the season ever before. So for them to get there, I think it's important. And I think it's
1:50.3	important that Donovan is the one that got them there. Now, I know he didn't have the best series,
1:55.9	but the game that they got from Donovan Mitchell in game seven on Sunday night, I thought was everything
2:01.9	they needed in more.
2:04.0	Matt, how big of a moment was this for Donovan Mitchell?
2:08.4	Hmm.
2:11.9	I think it's, I think it was a huge game for him.
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