Why Donovan Mitchell believes these playoffs are his 'best shot' to win a title

SAN FRANCISCO — The video is there when Donovan Mitchell needs it, deep inside the Instagram account he’s poring through as he sits on a folding chair outside of the Chase Center visitors’ locker room.The 29-year-old Cleveland Cavaliers star swipes past dozens of highlight reels of his best moments during this 30-second search — all of them capable of helping him forget what unfolded on the evening of April 24, 2019 — in pursuit of the painful clip that has inspired him ever since. This was the night James Harden’s Houston Rockets knocked Mitchell’s Utah Jazz out of the playoffs for the second consecutive time, back-to-back bouncings that shaped him in ways he has kept quiet for all these years.Advertisement