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Officer Joe Ingles? Firefighter Dan Exum? How this year’s Utah Jazz inspired characters in NBC’s ‘Chicago Fire’

Derek Haas can’t remember which game it was exactly, or if whether to not it was a trademark tomahawk dunk or deep 3-pointer that set this crafty concept in motion, but he remembers where he was: On his couch, writing an episode of his NBC drama series, “Chicago Fire.”

The co-creator of the show took a quick break from typing away, took a peek toward his TV, saw Donovan Mitchell make a play and dared himself to do it. A character in the show needed a prom date, so while Haas was watching a Jazz game earlier this season, he baptized the random prom date character with a name now synonymous with the Utah franchise.