Utah Jazz star guard Donovan Mitchell shared a story on Instagram on Tuesday afternoon about a shooting at a local gym in The Bronx, New York.
The 23-year-old, having a career year with the Jazz in his third season, grew up in New York and Connecticut before attending high school in New Hampshire and playing college hoops at the University of Louisville. According to the 6-foot-1 shooting guard, Mitchell “grew up” playing at the gym, where shots were fired during a high school basketball game.
“This hurts to see man!,” Mitchell wrote in a post shared on Instagram today. “Grew up playing in this gym and against the gauchos! Man we gotta stop this senseless violence!”
Read the Jazz star's comments below.
https://www.instagram.com/p/B7l54RQgmHK/
Mitchell played two collegiate seasons at Louisville before declaring for the 2017 NBA Draft, where he was selected by the Denver Nuggets with the thirteenth overall pick, later traded to Utah on draft night in a deal for Trey Lyles and Tyler Lydon.
Mitchell earned a spot on the All-Rookie first team in 2017-18 and has emerged as a rising star and candidate to make his first All-Star team during the 2019-20 season. He's averaging 24.7 points and 4.3 assists per game for the Jazz more than halfway through his junior campaign in the NBA.
Donovan Mitchell has led the Jazz to a tie for second in the Western Conference at the moment alongside two-time Defensive Player of the Year center Rudy Gobert and Croatian small forward Bojan Bogdanovic, who is also having a career-best season in his first year with Utah.
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