Josh Hart went viral on Sunday night for grabbing at Donovan Mitchell’s chain after nailing a dagger 3-pointer, and Evan said his response would have been a lot different had he been in Mitchell’s shoes.
“When Josh Hart hit that crazy three…and he turns around and touches Donovan Mitchell to taunt him, if Donovan Mitchell had any balls, he would have punched him in the face,” Evan said. “I’m not even kidding.
“You’re in the middle of a game, it’s a playoff atmosphere, and you let this dude just touch you?”
Mitchell and Hart are friends off the court, and Hart said afterward it was playful taunting on his part, but for Evan, he said it was a symptom of a collective problem for Cleveland.
“That’s who they are,” Evan said. “They have no fight in them. They will let you push them around.”