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Donovan Mitchell tests positive for COVID-19

jazfan23 said:
Honestly , I don’t think things have been good between Don and Rudy for a while now .

Jazz need to make this work ... No way you could trade Rudy for at least 6 months till this blows over ..

Right now , Rudy is being seen as the reason why the NBA has been shut down by the fickle , uneducated fan ...
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The media is helping push this narrative. On all things considered on NPR they had a segment where they all but said that Rudy caused the season to be suspended by singlehandedly spreading the virus, mentioning the press conference of course.
 
jazfan23 said:
According to Woj , most of Rudy’s team mates are angry at him , not just Donovan ... who is apparently not speaking to him ..

Now this can all be seen as a media beat up , but I can’t see Woj the type just to make this up for a story ... He comes across as always checking every source ... and it seems the jazz had a leak of information from a player or staff member .
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Yeah. Donovan’s agent.
 
oneye said:
Yeah. Donovan’s agent.
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What does Donovan's agent or Donovan or his camp have to gain with communications like this? Makes no sense. Unless they are worried about a diagnosis affecting the brand so they feel they have to push the blame on someone else. Donovan is about the most social guy on the entire team and there is a good possibility that he and Rudy were infected entirely independent of each other. So his diagnosis coming so close on the heels of all the crap Gobert is getting for all this they felt like they needed to go straight into damage control mode, which includes throwing Rudy under the bus so he doesn't get dragged under with him. **** move but could be financially motivated I guess.
 
People are amazed that Donovan and his teammates could be upset at Rudy? Read stuff like this : https://news.yahoo.com/people-fully-recover-coronavirus-left-103917303.html

Donovan and his teammates play for their livelihood and for their family and friends. Rudy was sick. That was known in the lockerroom, to the media, everywhere. If teammates in the lockerroom asked Rudy to stop touching their stuff and he did it anyway, do you blame them for getting pissed when they get diagnosed with this illness?

Some of you are so blinded by hatred of Donovan or love of Rudy or just by pure ignorance. Donovan hasn't directly chastised Rudy. Donovan hasn't done anything wrong.

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Rudy didn't know he had the virus. 50% of us are gonna get it more than likely. If Mitchell is mad at Rudy for this it says more about him than Rudy imo.

I can't imagine being mad at a coworker, friend, acquaintance for this unless I already disliked the guy. Even then, if the guy apologized I'd probably forgive him. Just my nature.
 
LoPo said:
People are amazed that Donovan and his teammates could be upset at Rudy? Read stuff like this : https://news.yahoo.com/people-fully-recover-coronavirus-left-103917303.html

Donovan and his teammates play for their livelihood and for their family and friends. Rudy was sick. That was known in the lockerroom, to the media, everywhere. If teammates in the lockerroom asked Rudy to stop touching their stuff and he did it anyway, do you blame them for getting pissed when they get diagnosed with this illness?

Some of you are so blinded by hatred of Donovan or love of Rudy or just by pure ignorance. Donovan hasn't directly chastised Rudy. Donovan hasn't done anything wrong.

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We all ****ing love Donovan, so just stop with your BS. YOU are the one who is too in love with Donovan to simply say, yeah probably not great of him.
 
oneye said:
Media and his teammate
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Sorry oneye, I didn't see any of his teamates say that, it was reported only by media and woj. What is the purpose to accuse Rudy, to blame him in this time?? Is it not enough for him to be contaminated? Many people made jokers and were careless about that. But I suppose we need a face for this disaster... Rudy is Lynched in public.

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Ironankle said:
Sorry oneye, I didn't see any of his teamates say that, it was reported only by media and woj. What is the purpose to accuse Rudy, to blame him in this time?? Is it not enough for him to be contaminated? Many people made jokers and were careless about that. But I suppose we need a face for this disaster... Rudy is Lynched in public.

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Donovan’s silence in the wake of this and Woj and Chris Mannix reporting his mad speak plenty of volumes. It’s coming from Donovan’s camp.
 
oneye said:
Donovan’s silence in the wake of this and Woj and Chris Mannix reporting his mad speak plenty of volumes. It’s coming from Donovan’s camp.
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Your conspiracy theories are funny. What does Mitchell and his camp have to gain from being reportedly frustrated with Rudy and his careless actions in the lockerroom?

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They say to never buy an active players Jersey...

I'm almost 40. What good would it be for me to have a Jersey anyways, I'd almost never wear it. Whenever you buy a jersey, that player often gets traded, or leaves the team and you are left with a useless Jersey... But there it was. Green Note Jersey. #45 Mitchell. On sale, at a Nike clearance store, with a "friends and family discount" plus an additional 20 % off. How can I not buy an authentic Nike Jersey for 20 bucks... 2 weeks later the league shuts down indefinitely and the Jazz 2 best players are in a rift over corona-virus...

Moral of the story, you don't need an NBA jersey, and always be careful buying an active players Jersey.

Hopefully DM and Rudy can work this out and both be on the Jazz for a long time. It makes me sick thinking that Jazz may have to trade one of them this offseason.
 
LoPo said:
People are amazed that Donovan and his teammates could be upset at Rudy? Read stuff like this : https://news.yahoo.com/people-fully-recover-coronavirus-left-103917303.html

Donovan and his teammates play for their livelihood and for their family and friends. Rudy was sick. That was known in the lockerroom, to the media, everywhere. If teammates in the lockerroom asked Rudy to stop touching their stuff and he did it anyway, do you blame them for getting pissed when they get diagnosed with this illness?

Some of you are so blinded by hatred of Donovan or love of Rudy or just by pure ignorance. Donovan hasn't directly chastised Rudy. Donovan hasn't done anything wrong.

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Dude stop... Rudy didn’t know he was sick. We don’t know what he actually did that may have bothered others... if it was just doing high fives and **** then everyone was doing that. If there was some sort of other thing... like licking someone’s phone or messing with someone’s toothbrush then be pissed.

The same language from DMs tweet was used in Wojs tweet. It may not just be him but if you think that wasn’t just a little shade then I don’t know what to tell you.
 
Donovan is currently making oneye look very rational.
 
Handlogten's Heros said:
Dude stop... Rudy didn’t know he was sick. We don’t know what he actually did that may have bothered others... if it was just doing high fives and **** then everyone was doing that. If there was some sort of other thing... like licking someone’s phone or messing with someone’s toothbrush then be pissed.

The same language from DMs tweet was used in Wojs tweet. It may not just be him but if you think that wasn’t just a little shade then I don’t know what to tell you.
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Dude? You think Rudy's teammates are upset because of high fives? Seriously?

I completely understand what Rudy was trying to do with the media. He was trying to be funny and ease fears. Was it dumb? Of course. However, this isn't the thing I'm talking about.

I'm talking about whatever happened in the lockerroom. It's clear that Rudy did something because Donovan has implied that something happened (like you pointed out) and not a single one of Rudy's teammates has come out in Rudy's defense since it was reported days ago now. Not Ingles, Conley, nobody.

We don't know what Rudy did but it clearly rubbed everybody wrong. Sure, y'all can find a way to twist it that Donovan is in the wrong somehow or you could side with the other 14 guys on our team who haven't gone public to defend Rudy. Hell, Oni did and immediately took down his tweet.

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