SALT LAKE CITY — Fate is such a funny and fickle beast.
Whenever the Utah Jazz and Denver Nuggets play each other, Jazz fans are quick to point out that their team’s franchise cornerstones, Rudy Gobert and Donovan Mitchell, both came to Utah on their respective draft nights after being selected by Denver and then traded away.
As the age-old saying goes, one man’s trade asset is another man’s All-Star. And now, years later, Gobert and Mitchell will need to be at their absolute best in order to send the team that drafted them back to Denver after a first-round playoff series.