By Ishaan Bhattacharya Donovan Mitchell involuntarily played an integral role in the NBA shutting down in March 2020 due to COVID-19, as Mitchell and teammate Rudy Gobert were the first two players in the league to test positive. Mitchell went on the ‘Run Your Race’ podcast and told Theo Pinson about how he lived at home while recovering in the early days of COVID. (Starts at 1:08:58) “I couldn’t go nowhere and get food because people thought I really had COVID. And this was when remember that high school kid that died. So people didn’t know if you were healthy, unhealthy, whatever the thing w…
