SALT LAKE CITY — For those believing the Jazz could one day win a championship, the prospect of Donovan Mitchell joining Team USA for this summer’s FIBA World Cup should be disconcerting, if not alarming.
The Jazz don’t need another Dante Exum, and Mitchell doesn’t need another distracting summer. Here’s what Mitchell needs: five months with no major engagements and a lot of carefully scripted workouts.
The opportunity to play against first-rate competition — if named to Team USA for this summer’s World Cup — would be a growth experience for Mitchell. But he does that every year.