BOSTON — An injured Donovan Mitchell stayed in the hallways of TD Garden long after his Cleveland Cavaliers lost a close-out Game 5 to the Boston Celtics, 113-98, dapping up each of his teammates upon their exit from the arena and congratulating rivals Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown on his own way out.
There was no way of telling whether this was the five-time All-Star guard's farewell to the organization he has known for the past two seasons, even as The Athletic published its postmortem on the Cavs' season, complete with speculation about Mitchell's wayward status and the future of head coach J.