Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News
Utah Jazz player Donovan Mitchell poses for a photo with Emily Dutson while handing out backpacks to students at Kearns High in Kearns on Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2018. Taylor Miller shoots the photo.
KEARNS — Donovan Mitchell stood in front of 300 high school students Tuesday morning and joked that he was trying to help them get out of class.
They laughed and cheered — while he admitted he was just playing — but these Kearns High teenagers were actually in this invitation-only assembly because of the extra efforts they made in class last school year.