Derek Haas can’t remember which game it was exactly, or if whether to not it was a trademark tomahawk dunk or deep 3-pointer that set this crafty concept in motion, but he remembers where he was: On his couch, writing an episode of his NBC drama series, “Chicago Fire.”
The co-creator of the show took a quick break from typing away, took a peek toward his TV, saw Donovan Mitchell make a play and dared himself to do it. A character in the show needed a prom date, so while Haas was watching a Jazz game earlier this season, he baptized the random prom date character with a name now synonymous with the Utah franchise.