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Paul George has these players in mind when it comes to the ‘new’ face of NBA<\/p>\n
Paul George shares who he thinks will become the ‘new’ face of the NBA once guys like LeBron James and Steph Curry retire.<\/p>\n
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The No. 1 seed Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a> are down 2-0 in the Eastern Conference semifinals, and their star player appeared shaken up late with the team already dealing with several injuries<\/a>.<\/p>\n Donovan Mitchell had a big performance in Game 2 against the Indiana Pacers<\/a>, but he was in clear pain late in the contest as Indiana mounted an incredible comeback<\/a> to stun the Cavaliers. With Cleveland up by seven points with 48 seconds left, Pacers forward Pascal Siakam missed a free throw attempt but Aaron Nesmith was there for a put-back dunk.<\/p>\n Mitchell went for the rebound as Nesmith put the ball in the bucket, and he ended up taking a fall on the play. The Cleveland guard laid on the floor for a few moments, wincing. A replay showed Mitchell’s body awkwardly landing with Nesmith’s hands getting caught on Mitchell’s neck.<\/p>\n After the play was reviewed and a foul was called on Mitchell, he left the game briefly before returning with 27 seconds left in the contest. Tyrese Haliburton ended up hitting a game-winning 3-pointer for the Pacers to pull off the late comeback in Game 2.<\/p>\n Donovan Mitchell: ‘I’m banged up’<\/p>\n After the game, Mitchell didn’t say there was any specific injury he was dealing with, but said he is just one of many other teammates who are fatigued.<\/p>\n “I’m banged up, but we all are,” Mitchell told reporters. “It is what it is.<\/p>\n “We got two days to get ready for Friday.”<\/p>\n Cavaliers injury concerns<\/p>\n While Mitchell’s status is unknown for Game 3<\/a> on Friday<\/a>, it’s another concern for a Cleveland team that’s already dealing with plenty of injuries to key players.<\/p>\n All-Stars\u00a0Darius Garland<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Evan Mobley<\/a>, as well as key reserve\u00a0De’Andre Hunter<\/a>,\u00a0were all ruled out for Game 2 with injuries. Garland injured his toe during the Cavs’ first-round series against Miami while Mobley\u00a0and Hunter were hurt in Game 1 against Indiana. Mobley suffered a sprained ankle while Hunter is dealing with a sprained right thumb.<\/p>\n Mitchell had a stellar night in Game 2 as he scored a game-high 48 points with nine assists and five rebounds in 36 minutes of action.<\/p>\n (This story was updated to add new information.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paul George has these players in mind when it comes to the ‘new’ face of NBA Paul George…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3772],"tags":[260,280,7,306,305,193,3846,2625,1219,2255,864,257,1235,113,126,2256,54,79,70,85,6,11,261,62,67,61,81,114,258,279,34,65,259,66,83,55,64,63,82,256,278],"class_list":{"0":"post-18330","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cleveland-cavaliers","8":"tag-aaron","9":"tag-aaron-nesmith","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-cavaliers","12":"tag-cleveland","13":"tag-cleveland-cavaliers","14":"tag-clevelandcavaliers","15":"tag-deandre","16":"tag-deandre-hunter","17":"tag-donovan","18":"tag-donovan-mitchell","19":"tag-haliburton","20":"tag-hunter","21":"tag-indiana","22":"tag-indiana-pacers","23":"tag-mitchell","24":"tag-modular","25":"tag-modular-story","26":"tag-national","27":"tag-national-sports","28":"tag-nba","29":"tag-nba-playoffs","30":"tag-nesmith","31":"tag-neutral","32":"tag-news","33":"tag-overall","34":"tag-overall-neutral","35":"tag-pacers","36":"tag-pascal","37":"tag-pascal-siakam","38":"tag-playoffs","39":"tag-point","40":"tag-siakam","41":"tag-sports","42":"tag-sports-news","43":"tag-story","44":"tag-the","45":"tag-to","46":"tag-to-the-point","47":"tag-tyrese","48":"tag-tyrese-haliburton"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}