Best Destination: Miami Heat
The Miami Heat have the capacity to trade for Donovan Mitchell while keeping their core intact, able to immediately contend for a championship after bringing Spida to South Beach.
The only thing that Miami has been lacking since acquiring Jimmy Butler is a bona fide number one scoring option. Butler has proven himself capable of being a 20+ point per game pillar and a legitimate closer, but his ineffectiveness on the perimeter limits his ability to carry an offense when it’s slumping.
Donovan Mitchell would be able to shoulder that responsibility for the Miami Heat, while Butler can assert himself as a playmaker and clutch scorer.
Spida would go from having a former Defensive Player of the Year behind him to a perennial candidate, one that’s more equipped to guard on the perimeter. He’d also be surrounded by shooters and wing defenders that can help alleviate pressure on Mitchell on both ends of the court.
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A potential trade would see Tyler Herro, Duncan Robinson, one of Miami’s young gems, and future draft picks headed to Utah in return for Mitchell. This deal would be entirely dependent on how highly Jazz President Danny Ainge views Herro, a rising star who just came off a season where he averaged 20+ points off of the bench.
If the Miami Heat were able to pull this off, Donovan Mitchell might just find himself on the favorites to come out of the Eastern Conference next year.
