SALT LAKE CITY — On draft night, Donovan Mitchell received a call from one of the Utah Jazz’s greatest players of all-time.
He still remembers the conversation like yesterday.
“Stay patient. It’s not all going to be sunshine,” Darrell Griffith told Mitchell. “You’re going to have your pitfalls and I think that was the biggest thing I learned from him.”
Ironically, they both played at Louisville and now the Jazz organization.
Obviously, the 21-year-old Mitchell wasn’t even thought about when starred at Louisville from 1976-80 then was picked second overall by the Utah Jazz where he would earn Rookie of the Year, but he’s aware of his basketball impact.