Donovan Mitchell writes message on shoes after latest mass school shooting

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell's shoes read "Pray for Parkland," refering to a shooting today at a Florida high school, as the Utah Jazz host the Phoenix Suns, NBA basketball in Salt Lake City, Wednesday Feb. 14, 2018. Donovan Mitchell has dazzled throughout his rookie season with custom shoe designs. But the statement he wanted to make Wednesday night carried a much more somber tone, written in black marker along the sides of his golden Dame 4s.

It was a powerful message in the wake of yet another school shooting, one which claimed the lives of 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., where a 19-year-old gunman engineered…