SALT LAKE CITY — This time for sure?
A strange 24 hours for the Utah Jazz — which featured Donovan Mitchell declaring he was playing, the Jazz medical staff ruling him out, the team losing Game 1 to the Memphis Grizzlies, and some post-game cryptic social media posts — ended with the resolution the star guard had hoped for all along.
The team announced Monday Mitchell would play in Wednesday's Game 2.
So did Mitchell's sprained ankle suddenly completely heal overnight? Unlikely.
The much more plausible scenario is Mitchell — who admitted that he was less-than-pleased with the late scratch from Game 1 — was able to convince the organization that he was playing. And, frankly, that was that.