It's been a crazy ride for the NBA the past few years.
The leagues have seen nearly everything from a COVID-19 bubble to a compacted and shortened season.
But this year, with teams attempting to get to a new sense of normalcy, the challenges presented have been vastly different. With the new COVID-19 variant wreaking havoc on the league and sending teams scrambling to fill rosters, the Utah Jazz have been relatively lucky thus far.
Now that's about to change, but not because of the new Omicron variant. The injury bug has officially hit the team as Donovan Mitchell — an MVP frontrunner — did not travel with the team for their two-game road trip.