ORLANDO — Donovan Mitchell turned his mother’s basement into his gym during the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic. The All-Star guard set up and exercise bike and bought weights from the internet so he could try to stay in shape.
The Utah Jazz wanted to make sure their leading scorer had a little more than that during this extended stay at the NBA campus in Florida. So in late June, the team packed up dumbbells, machines and other supplies at the Zions Bank Basketball Campus, loaded it onto a truck, and moved it to the team’s hotel in Orlando.