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Measured

Of the current Cleveland Cavaliers players, Donovan Mitchell finished 30.8% of the plays with him on the floor in 2025-26 (regular season and playoffs); the next, James Harden, 24.0%.

30.8
Plays he finishes · % · 2025-26
Of the current Cleveland Cavaliers players, Donovan Mitchell finished 30.8% of the plays with him on the floor in 2025-26 (regular season and playoffs); the next, James Harden, 24.0%.Plays he finishes · %Donovan Mitchell30.8James Harden24.0Evan Mobley21.6Tyrese Proctor21.0Thomas Bryant18.4
24.0 %
Plays he finishes · 2025-26
2,341 min
Minutes with the club (regular season) · 2025-26
2025-26 · usage: regular season and playoffs, clock from 84 games · players with ≥ 250 regular-season min
See evidence · 5 pieces of evidence
  1. Donovan Mitchell: 30.8% of the plays with him on the floor (regular season and playoffs) · 2,341 min in 70 regular-season games with Cleveland Cavaliers (2025-26) · 2026-05-25
  2. James Harden: 24.0% of the plays with him on the floor (regular season and playoffs) · 880 min in 26 regular-season games with Cleveland Cavaliers (2025-26) · 2026-05-25
  3. Evan Mobley: 21.6% of the plays with him on the floor (regular season and playoffs) · 2,079 min in 65 regular-season games with Cleveland Cavaliers (2025-26) · 2026-05-25
  4. Tyrese Proctor: 21.0% of the plays with him on the floor (regular season and playoffs) · 549 min in 50 regular-season games with Cleveland Cavaliers (2025-26) · 2026-05-25
  5. Thomas Bryant: 18.4% of the plays with him on the floor (regular season and playoffs) · 734 min in 60 regular-season games with Cleveland Cavaliers (2025-26) · 2026-05-25
Limits
  • “Plays he finishes” = shots, free throws or turnovers while he is on the floor, weighted by his time: it says who ends possessions, not who creates them or how much the team gains with him.
  • It draws 5 of the 10 players still at the club with at least 250 regular-season minutes (the house's solid-sample threshold); 3 more are left out for a short sample.
  • The source only publishes units above 12 minutes; they cover 1,838 of the team's 3,956 minutes. What the shorter units played is not here.
  • Nobody publishes a duo's or a trio's performance: it comes from combining the units where both appear — weighting each one by the possessions it played, which is the unit the figure is written in — and therefore covers only those units.
  • "Clearing the threshold" is a convention of ours to avoid highlighting short samples — a fixed fraction of what a team accumulates in a season — not a statistical test: there is no confidence interval and no significance test behind it.
  • All of this describes what happened while they were on court. It does not say it happened BECAUSE of them: the opponent, the scoreline and whoever else was on the floor are in the result too.
  • The figures are from 2025-26. Today's roster is a different one: what a group did last year does not describe the current team.
  • Without a minute for the club in 2025-26: Ernest Udeh Jr. · Khalifa Diop · Mario Hezonja · Meleek Thomas · Peyton Watson. There is nothing to measure for them here; whatever is known about them comes from elsewhere.
  • Of the 18 on the list, 3 are not backed by the roster source (Ernest Udeh Jr. · Khalifa Diop · Meleek Thomas): they may still be at the club or not, and we do not claim it.
  • For this competition we know how many times each unit took the floor, but not how many times all the team's units did in total: that is why we cannot say what share of the game these data cover, only that they cover a part of it.
Revision b96944cf · measured · 2026-05-25
Other readings of Cleveland Cavaliers
Observed

Cleveland Cavaliers lives on Spot up (22.8% of its possessions in 2025-26); what it does best, Misc (percentile 97); where it gets hurt, Spot up (defensive percentile 17).

22.8 %
What it lives on · 2025-26
Cleveland Cavaliers lives on Spot up (22.8% of its possessions in 2025-26); what it does best, Misc (percentile 97); where it gets hurt, Spot up (defensive percentile 17).23 %18 %26 %
Play type · 2025-26 · regular season · NBA.com data
Observed

Of Cleveland Cavaliers's current roster, the pairing that has shared the floor most in 2025-26 is Mitchell + Mobley (1,886 minutes). This map draws the 14 most used pairings: who plays with whom, not how each one fared.

1,886.2
Minutes on court together · 2025-26
Of Cleveland Cavaliers's current roster, the pairing that has shared the floor most in 2025-26 is Mitchell + Mobley (1,886 minutes). This map draws the 14 most used pairings: who plays with whom, not how each one fared.1,886.21,080.8940.3878.5Evan Mo…Jaylon…Jarrett…Donovan Mit…14 connections in total
2025-26 · Cleveland Cavaliers
Measured · Partial coverage

Mitchell + Allen is, among the combinations compared here, the one with the best difference that holds up: +17.0 per 100 possessions across 1,573 possessions.

17.0
Difference per 100 possessions · 2025-26 · 23 units covering 724 minutes
Mitchell + Allen is, among the combinations compared here, the one with the best difference that holds up: +17.0 per 100 possessions across 1,573 possessions.Mitch… + Mobley1,886.2Mitche… + Allen1,080.8Mobley + Tyson940.3Mitche… + Tyson878.5Allen + Mobley867.5
2025-26 · Cleveland Cavaliers
Observed · Partial coverage

Mitchell · Allen · Merrill · Tyson · Harden has played the most of those compared here (40 minutes). None of them clears the conservative threshold we use to rank by performance, so no performance figure is highlighted here: what is shown is how much they played.

40.0 min
Minutes on court together · 2025-26 · a single unit
Mitchell · Allen · Merrill · Tyson · Harden has played the most of those compared here (40 minutes). None of them clears the conservative threshold we use to rank by performance, so no performance figure is highlighted here: what is shown is how much they played.Mit… · All… · Mer… · Tys… · Har…40.0Bry… · Tom… · Por… · Tys… · Pro…27.0Mit… · All… · Mer… · Mob… · Har…24.0All… · Mer… · Mob… · Tys… · Har…20.0Mit… · All… · Mer… · Mob… · Tys…17.0
2025-26 · Cleveland Cavaliers
Observed · Partial coverage

Of Cleveland Cavaliers's 8 five-man units in 2025-26 whose five players are all still at the club today, the most repeated is Mitchell · Allen · Merrill · Tyson · Harden (40 minutes). Together they add up to 169 minutes.

40.0
Minutes on court together · 2025-26 · a single unit
Of Cleveland Cavaliers's 8 five-man units in 2025-26 whose five players are all still at the club today, the most repeated is Mitchell · Allen · Merrill · Tyson · Harden (40 minutes). Together they add up to 169 minutes.24 %
2025-26 · Cleveland Cavaliers
Observed

Mitchell + Mobley add up to 1,886 minutes together in 2025-26, spread month by month. 4 pairings from the current roster are drawn: how much they have shared the floor, not how they fared.

406.1 min
Minutes on court together · 2025-11
Mitchell + Mobley add up to 1,886 minutes together in 2025-26, spread month by month. 4 pairings from the current roster are drawn: how much they have shared the floor, not how they fared.56.5
2025-26 · Cleveland Cavaliers
Measured · Partial coverage

Mitchell + Mobley · 2,138 possessions: above the conservative threshold we apply before comparing.

1,886.2 min
Minutes on court together · 2025-26 · game clock across 84 games
Mitchell + Mobley · 2,138 possessions: above the conservative threshold we apply before comparing.Minutes on…PossessionsPoints sco…Points all…Difference…Pace
2025-26 · Cleveland Cavaliers
Measured

Of 184 combinations, 16 have not shared a single minute and 147 have too short a sample to conclude anything. Only 21 clear the conservative threshold we use to rank them.

14
2 · 2025-26
21 supported · 0 inferences
  1. Mitchell and Mobley: 1,886.2 minutes together across 68 games in 2025-26
  2. Mitchell · Hunter · Garland · Mobley · Tyson: 89 minutes across 8 games · 111.6 scored and 126.3 allowed per 100 possessions (190 possessions)
2025-26 · Cleveland Cavaliers
Forecast

Cleveland Cavaliers: 52.3 projected wins in 2026-27 (range 41.0–64.0).

52.3
Wins · 2026-27
Cleveland Cavaliers: 52.3 projected wins in 2026-27 (range 41.0–64.0).52.3
Season 2026-27 · current model · computed 2026-09-24
Profile · Cleveland Cavaliers