{"id":670312,"date":"2026-03-21T07:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T07:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/670312\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T07:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T07:02:10","slug":"cavaliers-star-donovan-mitchell-misses-game-against-bulls-because-of-bruised-left-eye-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/670312\/","title":{"rendered":"Cavaliers star Donovan Mitchell misses game against Bulls because of bruised left eye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 Cleveland star Donovan Mitchell missed the Cavaliers\u2019 game Thursday night against the Chicago Bulls because of a bruised left eye.<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell was hurt in a collision in practice with Evan Mobley. The seven-time All-Star played through the injury in Cleveland\u2019s victory at Milwaukee on Tuesday night and finished with 19 points on 4-for-14 shooting. He said after the game that he was having trouble seeing.<\/p>\n<p>Coach Kenny Atkinson said the injury is \u201cnothing serious,\u201d but the Cavaliers need to \u201clet it clear up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell is eighth in the NBA in scoring at 28 points per game while shooting a career-high 47.9%. He\u2019s averaging 5.9 assists, 4.5 rebounds and 1.6 steals.<\/p>\n<p>The Cavaliers entered the day fourth in the Eastern Conference at 42-27. They trailed New York by 2 1\/2 games and led Toronto by 2 1\/2.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP NBA: <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 Cleveland star Donovan Mitchell missed the Cavaliers\u2019 game Thursday night against the Chicago Bulls because&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":670313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3771],"tags":[7,920,919,329,3824,193,864,576,8382,2048,590,1407,6,446,578,16,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-670312","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-bulls","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-bulls","10":"tag-chicago","11":"tag-chicago-bulls","12":"tag-chicagobulls","13":"tag-cleveland-cavaliers","14":"tag-donovan-mitchell","15":"tag-evan-mobley","16":"tag-il-state-wire","17":"tag-illinois","18":"tag-ken-atkinson","19":"tag-national-basketball-association","20":"tag-nba","21":"tag-nba-basketball","22":"tag-oh-state-wire","23":"tag-ohio","24":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116265887398464900","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670312","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=670312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}