If there was ever a doubt about how special of a person Donovan Mitchell is, he put that to rest on Saturday afternoon.
During the Utah Jazz Open Practice on The Road To Tipoff, presented by Udo, the thousands of fans watching saw something they’d never seen before: Mitchell donning the number 22 on his practice jersey.
Immediately, questions began flooding into the Zoom chat as to why the number changed, and its meaning. As speculation began to make its way throughout social media, an answer never became official until his post-practice presser.
"I just wanted to pay my respects to Aaron [Lowe] and Ty [Jordan] in my own way.