{"id":409876,"date":"2022-10-22T01:51:16","date_gmt":"2022-10-22T01:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=409876"},"modified":"2022-10-22T11:59:25","modified_gmt":"2022-10-22T11:59:25","slug":"donovan-mitchell-slams-chris-paul-for-chain-reaction-that-altered-nba-season-during-covid-19-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/donovan-mitchell-slams-chris-paul-for-chain-reaction-that-altered-nba-season-during-covid-19-outbreak\/","title":{"rendered":"Donovan Mitchell slams Chris Paul for chain reaction that altered NBA season during COVID-19 outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rudy Gobert&#8217;s positive COVID-19 result that ended the 2019\u201320 NBA season on March 11, 2020, put the <a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/nba\/nba-team-detail\/UTA\/home\">Utah Jazz<\/a> in the spotlight and set off a chain reaction that altered sports for the next few years. Donovan Mitchell claimed that the Jazz players ended up getting intoxicated in the locker room after their game against the Oklahoma City Thunder was postponed in an interview on the most recent episode of \u201cThe Old Man and The Three\u201d podcast with JJ Redick.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the locker room, Mitchell said, \u201cI wouldn&#8217;t say there was fear. It was just like, what can we do? We&#8217;re just here.\u201d We had dinner and then wine that night, thanks to (Chris Paul \u2014 then with the Thunder), who provided 15 bottles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe got wasted. We drank; I won&#8217;t lie to you about that. Because we&#8217;re just like, Okay, there&#8217;s clearly no game,\u201d You&#8217;re at a period where everyone is calling, and we won&#8217;t be playing for a while. Everyone is dialing. Everyone is on FaceTime with us. Everyone in this locker room is being called by everybody you can think of. And while we sit there, we simply have no idea what will transpire. We&#8217;re attempting to avoid being afraid by drinking, if you get what I mean. one of those situations in which you feel helpless.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Donovan Mitchell on when COVID stopped the NBA:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were in the locker room for 9 hours&#8230; I wouldn\u2019t say it was panic&#8230; it was just like \u2018What can we do.\u2019 &#8230;And [Chris Paul], shoutout to CP, sent us 15 bottles of wine&#8230; We got drunk I\u2019m not gonna lie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OldManAndThree?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@OldManAndThree<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/81j59AWWHa\">pic.twitter.com\/81j59AWWHa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Legion Hoops (@LegionHoops) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LegionHoops\/status\/1583555972890443776?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 21, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Before being allowed to leave the arena, Mitchell and the other Jazz players were in their locker room for approximately nine hours.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mitchell wanted to see if he could find someone that could arrange a private plane to take the players back to Utah but didn&#8217;t have any luck in that pursuit. The All-Star guard, who is now with the Cleveland Cavaliers, also said that a man wearing a hazmat suit ended up driving the players back to a hotel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mitchell continued, \u201cI have photographs on my phone from that night that I&#8217;ll definitely post up in my house at some point and tell my kids like, &#8216;This is one of the biggest events in sports, in the history of the country.\u201d Mitchell said he will \u201cnever forget that night.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It&#8217;s undoubtedly an event that many will never forget, but Mitchell and his Jazz teammates will always have a wild tale to tell. 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Donovan Mitchell claimed that the Jazz players ended up getting intoxicated in the locker room after their game against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":387781,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,93,90],"tags":[393,387,9,2161,698],"class_list":["post-409876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","category-phoenix-suns","category-utah-jazz","tag-chris-paul","tag-donovan-mitchell","tag-nba","tag-phoenix-suns","tag-utah-jazz"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}