{"id":670894,"date":"2026-03-21T15:36:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T15:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/670894\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T15:36:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T15:36:23","slug":"is-donovan-mitchell-playing-tonight-cavs-vs-pelicans-injury-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/670894\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Donovan Mitchell playing tonight? Cavs vs. Pelicans injury report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Cleveland Cavs visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nba\/new-orleans-pelicans\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New Orleans Pelicans<\/a> on Saturday night. <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nba\/players\/ba810a1f\/donovan-mitchell\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donovan Mitchell<\/a> is on the <a href=\"https:\/\/ak-static.cms.nba.com\/referee\/injury\/Injury-Report_2026-03-21_10_00AM.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">injury report<\/a> alongside Jarrett Allen, with one player listed as questionable and the other ruled out. Mitchell is dealing with a left eye contusion, while <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nba\/cleveland-cavaliers\/cavs-news-jarrett-allen-to-miss-3-game-with-right-knee-tendinitis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Allen is ruled out with right knee tendinitis<\/a>. Here&#8217;s everything we know about Donovan Mitchell&#8217;s injury and his playing status vs. the Pelicans.<\/p>\n<p>Donovan Mitchell injury status vs. Pelicans<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3742673\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Cavs-Donovan-Mitchell.jpg\" alt=\"Cavaliers guard Donovan Mitchell (45) reacts after scoring during the second half against the Dallas Mavericks at American Airlines Center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\"  \/>Kevin Jairaj-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>Given Donovan Mitchell is listed as questionable on the Cavaliers&#8217; injury report, it&#8217;s difficult to gauge whether he&#8217;ll play in Saturday&#8217;s contest against the Pelicans. <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nba\/cleveland-cavaliers\/cavs-news-donovan-mitchell-hat-trick-milestones-1-game\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mitchell made NBA history with a hat trick<\/a> of career milestones in one game. He reached 15,000 career points amid a 20+ point performance, which surpassed Mark Price for sixth-most in franchise history, and scored his 200th 3-pointer of the regular season.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Mitchell&#8217;s eye injury forced him to sit out of Thursday&#8217;s 115-110 win against the Bulls. While the Cavs have won their last two games, they&#8217;re 6-4 in their last 10 outings. With only 12 games remaining in the regular season, the Cavs (43-27) are one of the few teams that could leapfrog the Knicks for third place in the Eastern Conference.<\/p>\n<p>The Knicks (46-25) hold a 2.5 game lead. The Cavs have distanced themselves from the fifth-seeded Raptors (39-30) in recent weeks, which has solidified the Eastern Conference&#8217;s top-4 squads amid the fourth quarter of the regular season.<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell finished with 19 points, eight rebounds, three assists, one block, and one steal in his last outing against the Bucks. As for whether Donovan Mitchell is playing tonight against the Pelicans, the answer is maybe.<\/p>\n<p>Cavs injury report<\/p>\n<p>Jarrett Allen \u2014 Out \u2014 Right knee; tendinitis<\/p>\n<p>Donovan Mitchell \u2014 Questionable \u2014 Left eye; contusion<\/p>\n<p>Craig Porter Jr. \u2014 Out \u2014 Left groin; strain<\/p>\n<p>Tyrese Proctor \u2014 Out \u2014 Right quadricep<\/p>\n<p>Jaylon Tyson \u2014 Questionable \u2014 Left great toe; sprain<\/p>\n<p>Pelicans injury report<\/p>\n<p>Bryce McGowens \u2014 Out \u2014 Right small toe; fracture<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cleveland Cavs visit the New Orleans Pelicans on Saturday night. Donovan Mitchell is on the injury report&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":670895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3772],"tags":[7,306,305,193,3846,864,6,14502,470],"class_list":{"0":"post-670894","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cleveland-cavaliers","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-cavaliers","10":"tag-cleveland","11":"tag-cleveland-cavaliers","12":"tag-clevelandcavaliers","13":"tag-donovan-mitchell","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-nba-injury","16":"tag-new-orleans-pelicans"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116267912837604412","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670894","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=670894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}