Donovan Mitchell hadn’t forgotten the pain.
“It still hurts to this day,” he said recently.
Months after the Denver Nuggets rallied to knock the Utah Jazz out of the playoffs, Mitchell was looking forward to his team’s first chance to get even a modicum of revenge.
“We’ve been waiting for this since Sept. 1,” the All-Star guard said in the lead up to Sunday’s game.
The Jazz’s 109-105 win over the Nuggets on Sunday night in Denver won’t erase all of that pain, but it won’t hurt either.
“We’re developing into what we want to be.