Security rushes Donovan Mitchell away as he gets swarmed with love by fans in Panama

Cleveland Cavaliers star Donovan Mitchell seems to have quite a few fans in Panama.

Mitchell uploaded a video to Instagram on Friday showing a large group of fans in Panama swarming him with attention.

The Cavs star showed love in return, even as security tried to move him along.

The guard has Panamanian roots, as his grandmother came to the United States from Panama and was the first American-Panamanian member of his family. She passed away in the year 2020.

Mitchell was born in the state of New York and played college basketball at the University of Louisville.

He has spent each of his last two seasons in the NBA playing for the Cavaliers organization. In his second season with the team, the 2023-24 season, he helped the squad win a playoff series.

During the regular season, he averaged the most points per game of any player on the Cavaliers by a sizable margin with 26.6. For context, Darius Garland averaged the second-most points per contest on the team with 18.0.

Mitchell made 46.2 percent of his shots from the field and 36.8 percent of his shots from deep during the regular season across 55 games. He earned the fifth All-Star nod of his career along the way and his second with Cleveland.

When the 2024 NBA Playoffs commenced, Mitchell was just as dominant from a scoring standpoint, if not even more. He saw his scoring average rise to 29.6 points per game on 47.6 percent accuracy from the field and 35.4 percent accuracy from deep across 10 playoff games.

But he didn’t play in every one of the Cavaliers’ games during the team’s stint in the playoffs. After helping his squad eliminate the Orlando Magic in the first round, he missed the last two games of Cleveland’s second-round series versus Jayson Tatum and the Boston Celtics due to a calf strain, and the Cavaliers were eliminated in five games by the eventual NBA champions.