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Utah Jazz star point guard Donovan Mitchell refuted earlier reports that the beef between he and teammate Rudy Gobert was stirring again.
Salt Lake Tribute Jazz reporter Eric Walden captured Mitchell's thoughts Friday morning.
Donovan said he is absolutely playing tonight against the Nets. Then, asked about a new ESPN report of his relationship with Rudy Gobert being "passively aggressively awkward," shot it down and said that he and Rudy were good, and that people shouldn't believe otherwise.
— tribjazz (@tribjazz) February 4, 2022
Mitchell shot down early reports that Gobert was passive aggressively awkward toward him and said the two players were good.
The initial rift began back as the COVID-19 pandemic started in March of 2020. Gobert had jokingly touched all of the microphones during a press conference, not knowing he was about to test positive for the disease. Two days later, Gobert tried calling Mitchell, texted him and sent him DM's on Instagram, but did not hear back.
Mitchell, who also tested positive, then went on “Good Morning America” and acknowledged he was not happy with Gobert but that he needed some time to cool off.
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The Utah Jazz have been struggled recently. They snapped a five-game losing streak Wednesday night, beating the Denver Nuggets 108-104. However, their once commanding Northwest division lead is down to 2.5 games over the Nuggets.
The team's struggles come as Mitchell has been dealing with concussion symptoms. He missed the team's last eight games. Utah lost six of those eight games. However, Mitchell finally cleared the league's concussion protocols Thursday and will be available to play Friday night.
Also on Thursday, Mitchell and Gobert were named Western Conference All-Star reserves. It's the third consecutive season that both Mitchell and Gobert made the All-Star team.
The 2022 NBA All-Star Game in Cleveland, Ohio is slated for Sunday, February, 20th.
