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Blood, sweets and tears: When the season starts, Utah Jazz players say goodbye to their favorite junk foods

Donovan Mitchell’s rookie year got off to a slow start by his standards. The Utah Jazz guard would be dominating games by the end of his first NBA season, but he struggled in the beginning.

And Mitchell says he knows why.

“I don’t know if y’all remember the first, what, 12 games of the season? I was not playing well at all,” Mitchell told a group of Jazz fans recently. “Want to know what really changed? I stopped eating at Ruth’s Chris every night.”

OK, a little background: When Mitchell was in college at Louisville, the coaching staff would take the entire team to Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse for a meal before every big game.