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Donovan mitchell injury1/19/2023 ![]() Snyder has long been criticized by some for keeping his stars and starters in for unnecessarily long times in blowouts. There were no deep reserves waiting at the scorers’ table - if not for Mitchell’s injury, Utah’s key rotation pieces presumably would have stayed on the court awhile longer. It wasn’t until that point that coach Quin Snyder decided to make the platoon swap and remove each of the four starters and his sixth man (Clarkson, Mitchell, Rudy Gobert, Bojan Bogdanovic, Mike Conley) who’d still been playing. Indeed, with Mitchell hobbling and unable to run back on defense, Jordan Clarkson committed a foul at the 4:41 mark to stop the game and allow Mitchell to sub out. The situation makes for potentially intriguing series bookends: Dallas’ Luka Doncic missed the beginning of the series after suffering an injury in what turned out to be a meaningless final regular-season game for the Mavs and Mitchell potentially could miss the end of the series after getting hurt when he didn’t need to be on the court anymore.Īnd so, as news of Mitchell’s injury spread on Monday night, it inevitably prompted backlash from a contingent of the Utah fanbase wondering what Mitchell and other key players were still doing in the game with the outcome long a forgone conclusion. He was diagnosed with “bi-lateral quadriceps contusions,” and will continue treatment, but his status for Thursday’s Game 6 will not be updated until Wednesday. The Jazz announced Tuesday afternoon that Mitchell was examined earlier in the day by the team’s medical staff, and underwent an MRI on his hamstring, which came back negative for any structural damage. ![]() When Donovan Mitchell drove the lane, elevated, then landed and immediately grabbed at his left hamstring in Monday night’s Game 5, there was 4:55 remaining in the game.Īnd the Utah Jazz were trailing the Dallas Mavericks by 28 points in what proved to be a rout. ![]()
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