Mentally, I’m just not in that headspace to be completely honest with you. “I’m not ready to discuss that, to be honest with you right now. “There’s things that could change,” Mitchell acknowledged after the Game 6 defeat Thursday night.
And speculation has been rampant since about whether a dynamic scorer like Mitchell and a dominant defender like Gobert can be the sort of 1-2 punch that leads a championship team.īoth will figure to have interest if the Jazz choose to make them available on the trade market - and it’s not outside the realm of possibility that either or both players might ask for a move as well. Their relationship has been strained at times, going back to at least the start of the pandemic, when Gobert was the first NBA player to test positive for COVID-19 and Mitchell tested positive a day later. Mitchell is owed $67.5 million for the next two seasons, followed by a $37 million player option. Gobert is owed $85 million over the next two years, plus he holds a $46.6 million player option for the 2025-26 season.
