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Jamal CollierESPN
A day after a historic 71-point game from All-Star Donovan Mitchell, the Cleveland Cavaliers had been issued exams for performance-enhancing medicine on Tuesday afternoon, the staff confirmed to ESPN.
Gamers are usually topic to 4 random exams for performance-enchanting medicine through the season and two through the offseason, in response to the collective bargaining settlement between the NBA and the Nationwide Basketball Gamers Affiliation.
In a 145-134 additional time victory towards the Chicago Bulls on Monday evening, Mitchell scored probably the most factors by an NBA participant since Kobe Bryant’s 81-point sport towards Toronto on Jan. 22, 2006.
“Andddd identical to that we’re drug examined this morning” Mitchell wrote on Twitter to his teammate, Robin Lopez, together with three crying laughing emojis.
Andddd identical to that we’re drug examined this morning ??? https://t.co/LvlbcPDucP
— Donovan Mitchell (@spidadmitchell) January 3, 2023
Throughout his historic outburst, Mitchell went 22-of-34 from the sphere, made 7 of 15 3-pointers and scored 13 factors in additional time to assist the Cavs come again from a 21-point deficit to beat the Bulls.
He additionally added 11 assists, by far probably the most by a participant in a 70-point sport in NBA historical past. In whole, Mitchell scored or assisted on 99 factors for the Cavs, probably the most by any participant since Wilt Chamberlain’s NBA-record 100-point sport.