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Davion Mitchell Rumors
Not proactively trading Jimmy Butler before last season. A team source insists that there was no indication that Miami could have received more than one first-round pick — or a superior package — than what it ultimately obtained from the five-team trade (Andrew Wiggins, Anderson, Mitchell and a 2025 first-round pick). The teams that inquired about Butler last summer, when Miami wasn’t trying to trade him, never discussed offering multiple first-round picks.
What about Powell sharing some of the ball-handling duties with Herro and Adebayo if Mitchell plays off the bench? “Powell is not a handler,” the scout said. “He’s not a secondary ballhandler either, in my view. He is a scorer. He is laser focused on shooting and scoring.”
Davion Mitchell: Chris Paul was the first person I had a conversation with. I remember going to his house, having dinner with him. And he was just having these conversations about family, working out, traveling—kind of giving me the rundown in the NBA. How you can be a really good player in this league or you can fall out the league. It was a really tough conversation because I’m like, man, I really want to work hard but also I got to work smart.
Davion Mitchell on his mother battling breast cancer: She made it so much easier for me. Kind of just saying like Dave, you can you can do this. Like you can make it to the NBA no matter what. you can just work extremely hard and do this for me. And I think that every single day I play the game is always just for her.
“I’m just excited to be back here with this group of guys, with this coaching staff, with this organization. It’s completely different from the places I’ve been in,” said Mitchell, who was selected by the Sacramento Kings with the No. 9 overall pick in the 2021 draft and spent the first three seasons of his NBA career with the Kings before spending part of last season with the Toronto Raptors and eventually being traded to the Heat. “They really take winning seriously here and I respect that, and I’m excited to be here.”
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“First of all, he’s won a championship before,” Mitchell said when asked how Powell can help the Heat, referring to the NBA title that Powell won with the Raptors in 2019. “So he’s been there, he’s been through the thick and the thin and he’s been around really good teammates. He played with a really good team. He’s a winning player, he plays both sides of the ball, he can score with the best of them. He kind of does it all. Even if he’s not shooting the ball well, he can disrupt defensively. So you want guys like that on the floor that can help you win like that.”
Ira Winderman: Heat timing: Davion Mitchell signing expected today. With Detroit with lots of balls in the air, the Duncan Robinson deal looking like more of Monday timing. But, yes, that deal is done, with Pistons with much going on at the moment.
Kevin Durant: So, do you think the profile of players change? Like I'm been thinking I'm like I don't know if the 6-2 and under guard is at a premium no more as a starter. Maybe as a backup. But you have to be… LeBron James: We just talked about this in the last... Steve Nash: It's gotten compressed. It's that like either Donovan Mitchell, Drew Holiday 6-3, Lou Dort… Durant: You can't get picked on defense. That's the thing cuz we playing such a pick on game that they will really literally, if you can't guard they will bring you up every play. And six foot, 6-1, and you're not a bulldog like a Davion Mitchell, Jrue Holiday on the defensive side, or you not an offense that's flat out savant like Kyrie Irving, where you can score on dudes seven feet easily in ISO, then I just can't see it.
Davion Mitchell to sign two-year, $24 million deal to return to Miami
Shams Charania: Restricted free agent Davion Mitchell intends to sign a two-year, $24 million deal to return to the Miami Heat, sources tell ESPN. Heat officials and Mitchell's agent, Josh Beauregard-Bell of Wasserman, negotiated the new fully guaranteed contract.
Omar Cooper, Bailey’s agent, told ESPN NBA insiders Jonathan Givony and Tim Bontemps that there was “nothing uncommon” about how the predraft process was handled. “Every NBA team watched him work out in Chicago,” Cooper told ESPN. “He did 18 interviews. Everyone got his medical. They watched him run and jump. They got his measurements. “No one said anything when Davion Mitchell canceled a workout with the Toronto Raptors. No one criticized Evan Mobley when he didn’t work out for Cleveland, and they drafted him anyway.”
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Ira Winderman: The Heat have extended the required $8.7M '25-26 qualifying offer to Davion Mitchell to make him restricted free agent. They also have extended a two-way qualifying offer to Dru Smith. No similar offer to Isaiah Stevens. Only decision remaining by Sunday deadline is Duncan Robinson player option.
Mitchell, who turns 27 on Sept. 5, is expected to get the biggest contract of his NBA career after standing out following the February trade to Miami. With Mitchell making $6.5 million this past season in the final year of his rookie-scale contract after getting drafted with the ninth overall pick in 2021, he could draw offers around the $14 million full midlevel exception range this summer.
Davion Mitchell: Always wanted to go Miami, told my agents that
Davion Mitchell: They let me go out there, play my game, and honestly, if it wasn't for them, I wouldn't probably be in Miami right now. In my position, you kind of know that you're about to be traded. I just didn't know where. Always wanted to go Miami. I told my agents that. But it was other teams that I know had interest in me. And at the end of the day, I was kind of just like wherever I go I'm just gonna play the best basketball I can. It's been kind of crazy the trade deadline and everyone's on their everyone's on their toes. This is always my first option. I just like this is kind of like a dream come true kind of thing. I was like, ‘there's no way I'll be able to come here’. But it happened.
The Heat is expected to extend an $8.7 million qualifying offer to Davion Mitchell, which gives Miami a chance to match outside offers. Even though signing Mitchell for two or three years would further eat away at Miami’s 2026 cap space, the Heat is headed down a road of not being a “room” team anyway in 2026. If the money is reasonable in 2026-27 (perhaps $9 million), re-sign Mitchell and let cap savant/GM Andy Elisburg worry about the cap consequences later.
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