Donovan Mitchell crosses the basketball between his legs, steps back, and swishes a three-pointer over six-seven defender Dalen Terry. It jump-starts the run that seals their eleventh win in a row.

It makes me feel like Grampa Simpson to say that in the year I started working with the NBA, as a copy editor for Hoop magazine in New ... is genuinely “the NBA’s straight-A student”: Donovan Mitchell ...