Having shown up amid chaos, Davion Mitchell now with clarity with
MIAMI– Davion Mitchell showed up in the middle of the chaos. Now he has clearness and wants to offer the same for the Miami Heat.
His totally free company expedited with a two-year, $24 million contract reached ahead of the leaguewide start of totally free agency, Mitchell formally signed that contract Monday in the Heat’s workplaces and then went out Tuesday for autographs and pictures at the Heat’s youth camps.
“I’m thrilled, a little bit worried, undoubtedly, but ecstatic simply to be back, just to play here for the next 2 years,” Mitchell said upon his signing. “I enjoy the fan base, love the coaching personnel, love everything that they do here in Miami.”
Tuesday he added, “I simply wanted to do what was best for me and my household, undoubtedly. However I wanted to be here. I wanted to keep playing here.”
The 6-foot-2 guard showed up as part of the whirlwind that had the Heat shipping off Jimmy Butler to the Golden State Warriors at the Feb. 6 trading due date. More specifically, Mitchell showed up a day after that trade had to be restructured, with Mitchell the plus-one part landing from the Toronto Raptors with the Heat rather of former Heat forward P.J. Tucker.
While the primary focus of the incoming plan to the Heat was Warriors forward Andrew Wiggins and the No. 20 Warriors first-round choose the Heat used last month on Illinois guard Kasparas Jakucionis, it was Mitchell who made the greatest splash with his dogged defense and surprising 3-point precision.
If not for his three overtime 3-pointers in the play-in success over the Atlanta Hawks there would have been no Heat playoffs this past season.
If not for his defensive deterrence, the Heat might not have regained their protective stride after the team was wobbled by Butler’s indifference prior to his parting.
And if not for Mitchell’s bulldog method, the free-agency benefit would not be salaries the next two seasons that are more than double what he has actually made in any of his very first 4 NBA seasons.
Oh, and the weather, too.
“I’m not a big fan of the cold,” Mitchell said. “And where I was before, it was freezing.”
From his Heat arrival, Mitchell said he had the sense he was here to remain.
“Probably since after the very first game, everybody said, you better sign back here, you much better sign back here,” he said, with the Heat launching a video documenting his signing along with Heat senior director of basketball operations Dave Beyer. “I have actually been hearing it every day.”
While it was an unequal initial trip, with the Heat closing the regular season 37-45 and being burnt out by the Cleveland Cavaliers by a record margin in the preliminary of the playoffs, Mitchell stated he is anticipating finally getting continual continuity.
“After the trade deadline, we really didn’t have that much time to practice,” he stated. “But now that we have a training school together and simply do activities together, I seem like we’ll be more comfortable having fun with one another, just being there for one another. We’ll type of know each other more and we’ll simply be a better group, for sure.”
He included Tuesday, “It’s going to be good for me and just the group, just the chemistry that we can build.”
And by camp the Heat will have a far higher sense of precisely what the reconfigured roster will look like. Already, one player gotten in the Butler trade, forward Kyle Anderson, has been moved on in Monday’s trade for Los Angeles Clippers guard Norman Powell. And the status of Wiggins stays in doubt amid reports about his future.
However with his agreement, and with the NBA rule disallowing trades before Dec. 15 of players signed in the offseason, Mitchell knows he will be there in camp, even more settling into his 3rd NBA stop after time with the Sacramento Kings and Toronto Raptors.
“I’m very delighted that the fans love me,” he stated, stiring that popularity to the degree of at one point walking the streets of Miami in his Heat jersey. “I simply attempt to go out there and just play as difficult as I can. I do not do nothing exciting, truthfully. I just go out there and play hard, and play difficult for my group.”
Now signed, sealed and delivered.
“I’m just thrilled,” he stated, “to be back here with this group of guys, with this training staff.”
Originally Released: July 8, 2025 at 12:44 PM EDT