As the clock was about to strike midnight in Toronto, Donovan Mitchell made a new year’s resolution of sorts.
That’s not to say Mitchell had a bad 2018, by any standard: He burst onto the scene with a dunk contest win, a playoff series win against Oklahoma City, and a signature shoe deal that put him in rarefied air among the NBA’s elite.
But as he’s rounded the corner into 2019, Mitchell has regained that elite form that eluded him for the first couple of months of the season. Since that tweet, Mitchell is averaging 27 points and 5.