It was deja vu all over again.
In the biggest game of the regular season, a game in which the Jazz were in from a competitive standpoint despite being drastically shorthanded, an injury appeared to change everything.
And that injury was to the same person.
Midway through the third quarter of Sunday's game against the Mavericks, Donovan Mitchell collapsed to the ground, grimacing in pain after Dallas' Dwight Powell landed on his ankle. While rolling over and pounding the floor multiple times with both fists, the worst was expected. Not only was Mitchell going to miss the rest of the game, but the injury looked severe enough to keep him on the bench for the foreseeable future.