Donovan Mitchell left Game 4 with a non-contact ankle injury, says he’ll ‘be good’

The Cleveland Cavaliers found themselves down 41 after the first half in what can only be considered their worst half of basketball all season. Donovan Mitchell wasn’t with the team when they returned to the court for the second half. He was held out for the remainder of Game 4 with what the team called an ankle injury.

Head coach Kenny Atkinson didn’t have an update postgame besides that he was going to get an MRI on it on Monday.

Mitchell wasn’t injured during gameplay. The injury came when he came out after halftime to warm up. It was a non-contact injury that doesn’t look good from the video.

Mitchell has been playing with a calf strain all series. It flared up at the end of Game 2. Now, it’s a left ankle injury.

This is a sad way for his season to end if it is in fact the end. Mitchell had been the best player all series. He came into Sunday’s game averaging 41.3 points per game despite not getting the outside shot to fall.

He wasn’t playing up to that same incredibly high standard in Game 4. He scored just 12 points in 20 first-half minutes on 3-11 shooting with just one rebound and no assists.

The Cavs aren’t out of the series, even though it seems like they are based on how things are going in Game 4. They have the talent and skill to come back in this series if they can get their three-point shot to fall and the Pacers somehow cool off. But that is only if they have Mitchell at the level he played through games 1 through 3. That doesn’t seem likely right now, although Mitchell seems to be more optimisic.

Afterward, Mitchell told Joe Vardon of The Athletic and Chris Fedor of cleveland.com that he’ll “be good” for Tuesday.

We’ll see if that’s the case with the Cavs season on the line in Game 5.