The Utah Jazz enjoyed one week of training camp without injury, but that will change for Wednesday night’s game against Maccabi Haifa. The team reported at shootaround that guards Donovan Mitchell (hamstring tightness) and Raul Neto (quad tightness) will not play.
If the injuries sound somewhat minor and the Jazz seem overly circumspect about dealing with muscle tightness, that’s because they are. Mitchell and Neto were suited up for shootaround Wednesday morning (Mitchell missed Tuesday’s practice), but the Jazz aren’t about to push injuries in the preseason.
“We had planned on doing that anyway frankly,” coach Quin Snyder said.