Live Bar, September 15 -today, Knight held a press conference for Mitchell. According to the reporter SpencerDavies, Knight general manager Altman talked about how he made up his mind to trade to Mitchell.
“This is a 25-year-old three-time All-Star player. It becomes very simple for you to think like this, right? My core job is to recruit the best talents for Cleveland, and now I am sitting next to one of the best players in the world (referring to Mitchell). When you look at this in a simplified way, you will think, will Mitchell make us a better team? Obviously. How do we do this? You have to get out of the pain of trading, but we are all very happy and excited about what we can do.” Altman said so.
When talking about the expectations for the Cavaliers’ record, Altman said: “I think we have won the chance to compete with the best rivals in the world. This is an exciting team with a good team character, a good work ethic, and most importantly, they all really want to play in Cleveland, which I think is really important. We are very young and the time window is very suitable to introduce high-level players for this team. Let’s get dry! I am very happy to see what the team is like now. There is a runway that needs to move forward step by step. I don’t want anyone to think that we must be very competitive this year, otherwise we will fail. This is not the case. For these guys, this is a gradual process. They can grow together, learn how to play together, and become better every year. With the hope of growing up, and play exciting basketball.”
(Basket Zhao)