Live from Southern California. This is the Jim Rome Show.

Go New York, go New York.

Donovan Mitchell is from the area.

He played AA ball in Manhattan.

Legend has it.

His first dunk came on a hoop in the city.

His father works for the Mets.

Donovan reportedly, really, really wanted Phil Jackson to select him in the draft.

For real.

For real.

Ever since Mitchell Trade rumors first surfaced, Mitchell has wanted the Nix.

Nix fans have wanted Mitchell in the worst way imaginable.

And yet somehow some way, Donovan Mitchell wakes up this morning as a member of the

Cleveland Cavaliers.

Go New York, go New York, go New York go. This guy woke up a cavalier and you know why? Because

Cleveland did what New York would not do. They went all in for Mitchell. They sent three players, three future first

round picks, two picks swaps, two Utah. I mean sure that's a hell of a lot to give up and Danny Ainge is sitting on a pile of picks in Utah and he's cackling but I love this I love this for Cleveland because like Wade bogs on a cross-country flight the calves are absolutely loaded

allegedly Darius Garland Jarrett Allen Evan Mobley, the oldest of those three is 24.

They've got a head coach in J.B. Pickerstaff, who doubled their win total from year one to year two.

And now they've got a three-time all-star who can

take over a playoff game and win it single-handedly if you need him to.

You know, the kind of guy the Knicks have not had for years, the kind of guy the Knicks have been looking for for years the kind of guy the Knicks have had to have for years and he was right there and he wanted to be one of them

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