Knicks Drop Second Straight Game - Fall Back to .500

This is a superstar league. The Cavs had one. The Knicks didn't. The Cavs won.

Plenty of Knicks fans felt team president Leon Rose should have been willing to go the extra mile to get Donovan Mitchell over the summer. Those fans were extremely disappointed when the Knicks got agonizingly close to pulling the trigger on a trade, only to see Micthell be re-routed to the Cavs. 

Sunday night in Cleveland, Donny Mitch reminded folks why those fans were desperate to bring the Westchester-born kid back home.

Mitchell finished Sunday's 121-108 victory over the Knicks with 38 points, a season-high 12 assists, two blocks, and eight 3-pointers. New York hung close for most of the evening and even built a nine-point lead heading into the fourth quarter. However, Mitchell and the Cavs dominated the final frame, outscoring the Knicks 37 to 15 and blowing the Knicks out of the building in the process. 

Mitchell and Kevin Love by themselves outscored New York by 13 points in the fourth (28-15). At 5-1, Cleveland has the second-best record in the NBA this season. 

"Donovan was not going to let us lose this game," Cavaliers coach J.B. Bickerstaff said afterward. "At both ends, he did the job. He is a complete basketball player. This dude is elite. I don't know what he can't do on the floor."