Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell and LaVar Ball, the loud-mouthed father of Los Angeles Lakers guard Lonzo Ball, seem to be polar opposites in many ways, but last week Mitchell gave a little nod to the senior Ball on Twitter.
When news broke that the Jazz will be playing on Christmas Day, Mitchell quoted a tweet he had sent on Christmas of last year in which he rhetorically asked if Utah would ever play on the holiday.
"Speak it into existence," Mitchell wrote last week, echoing LaVar Ball's words from February of 2017 when he said Lonzo would play for the Lakers (Lonzo Ball was indeed drafted by Los Angeles four months after LaVar Ball's statement).