While that isn’t always on display at All-Star events, and certainly not always at the Rising Stars game, Donovan Mitchell wanted it to be on Friday night, in his final go at the contest.
“Last year, we lost by 50. I took that personally, I think a lot of us did,” Mitchell said. “We all came together and I called pretty much everybody, and I said, ‘Let’s try to win this.’ ”
Team USA did that, taking revenge on Team World by a score of 161-144.
Mitchell played a rowdy role in terms of leading his team to the win, imploring his team with shouts of “We gotta play some defense!