He won two prep school national championships with Brewster's team. He also acted in the school musical and gave tours to visiting students in his role as a member of the Gold Key Club. He quickly proved popular among his new schoolmates so much so, he ran for senior prefect at the end of his junior year. ![]() Making basketball his focus and availing of Brewster's nationally prominent program, Mitchell garnered considerably more attention from college basketball coaches. For his junior and senior years, his mother transferred him to Brewster Academy in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire. Yet his high school baseball career ended in his sophomore year after incurring injury dashing for a pop-up in the infield, Mitchell collided with a catcher, who suffered a broken jaw while he received a broken wrist as a result. Besides basketball, Mitchell played baseball for Canterbury. Mitchell attended Canterbury School in New Milford for his first two years of high school, after having graduated from Greenwich Country Day School likewise in Connecticut. In 2010, Mitchell was present at the Boys and Girls Club of Greenwich (Conn.) when LeBron James announced his decision to sign with the Miami Heat. He played AAU basketball for both The City and the Riverside Hawks programs out of New York City. Mitchell has one younger sister named Jordan. At seven years old, he looked up to star pitcher of the Mets' minor-league system Scott Kazmir and later to David Wright, who was the first poster he hung on his wall. ![]() With his father serving as a director of player relations for the New York Mets, Mitchell spent his childhood around Major League Baseball locker rooms. His mother, who is of Panamanian descent, is a teacher and his father is a former Minor League Baseball player. Mitchell was born on September 7, 1996, to parents Donovan Sr. He was traded from the Jazz to the Cavaliers in 2022. As a rookie with the Utah Jazz, he was named to the NBA All-Rookie First Team and won the Slam Dunk Contest in 2018. Mitchell played college basketball for the Louisville Cardinals, earning first-team all-conference honors in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) in 2017. Nicknamed " Spida", he was drafted in the first round of the 2017 NBA draft with the 13th overall pick. ![]() (born September 7, 1996) is an American professional basketball player for the Cleveland Cavaliers of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
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