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Ask almost any NBA analyst or enthusiast, and they’ll probably tell you the Utah Jazz are in an enviable situation—not because they’re positioned to beat the Golden State Warriors now, but because they have a promising and competitive core, deep-playoff potential and loads of projected cap space next summer. Donovan Mitchell disagrees. Well, okay, not [...]

Utah Jazz star guard Donovan Mitchell celebrated his rookie season with hundreds of fans at the adidas Sport Performance store in Santa Monica on Tuesday night. Mitchell recently transitioned from wearing his adidas “Rookie” gear to apparel featuring “Spida” as Dictionary.com added Spida as an official entry on Tuesday with the definition: “A basketball species [...]

The Utah Jazz could not avoid the buzzsaw that was the Houston Rockets on Tuesday night. They may, however, have averted an even bigger disaster. Halfway through the fourth quarter of Game 5, with the Jazz clinging to their postseason livelihood, Donovan’s Mitchell banged legs with James Harden while dribbling in the half-court. He was [...]

Chris Paul’s friendship with Donovan Mitchell is for real—unless, of course, his Houston Rockets are facing the rookie’s Utah Jazz in the NBA playoffs. Which they are. They hold a 1-0 series league over them, in fact. So when Mitchell and the Jazz dispatched the Oklahoma City Thunder in six games during the first round, [...]

Boston sports fans are known as some of the most passionate and aggressive sports fans in the country (and they love to tell you about it). They were out in full force on Monday night to support the Celtics in Game 1 of their 2nd round series with the 76ers and may have contributed just [...]

Donovan Mitchell is so confident the Utah Jazz will win Game 6 of their first-round series with the Thunder that he’s already bidding farewell to Oklahoma City’s fans. For a while on Wednesday night, it looked as if the Jazz would be finishing off the Thunder with a gentleman’s sweep. They jumped out to a [...]

Utah Jazz general manager Dennis Lindsey badly wanted to make sure Donovan Mitchell would still be on the board when his team was on the clock, at No. 13, during last year’s draft. How badly? So badly, he apparently threatened to fire anyone who leaked any details of Mitchell’s pre-draft workout, and how well it [...]

Blake Griffin is one helluva comedian. This, for the record, is presented without sarcasm or irony. I really mean this. The clip of him doing stand-up that made the internet rounds last summer was mostly hysterical, and he remains one of the NBA’s best follows on Twitter. Speaking of which, the All-Star forward, who will [...]

Donovan Mitchell hears the Rookie of the Year buzz. He knows that he has become a legitimate challenger to unseat Ben Simmons’ once-irreversible claim to the award. He thinks it cool. He’s honored. He also doesn’t really care. As the Utah Jazz’s newbie told SLAM‘s Max Resetar, while he appreciates the Rookie of the Year love, [...]

Coming into the 2017-18 season, there were a number of rookies who arrived in the NBA with plenty of hype as potential stars of the future: Ben Simmons (didn’t play last year), Lonzo Ball, Markelle Fultz, Jayson Tatum and Josh Jackson to name a few. Some have looked like stars in the making (Simmons and [...]