It can be a little disorienting to remind yourself that
grim and gritty Ricky Rubio, the veteran point guard of the Utah Jazz, has played exactly the same number of playoff games over the course of his NBA career as Donovan Mitchell has. Rubio, whose transformation from doe-eyed, baby-faced sidekick to leathery, slicked-back, thickly-bearded mercenary must surely have been caused by all those harrowing battles fought in bloody trenches; and Donovan Mitchell, who is literally a rookie.