After Donovan Mitchell scored 41 points on Friday, leading the Jazz to their fifth straight win, a mass of media members crowded around his locker to hear what the rookie had to say. Notepads and microphones and cameras and elbows and knees and butts spilled over into space in front of other players’ lockers.
Ricky Rubio was blocked out with more force than at any other time during the night. He could barely reach his comb and his deodorant, squeezing into a narrow spot to get dressed.
Ingles said: “Donovan can have it. He can get 40 points every night and have 40 media guys talking to him.