The top regarded medical staff shouldn't be clearing a player to play and then blindsiding the team with news to the contrary hours before a playoff game. If there was a possibility of him not playing, he should have been on the injury report and the players should have known. The fact that they somehow missed that possibility looks horrible for them.The thing is the Jazz have one of the most highly respected medical staffs in the entire NBA, despite what some forum idiots want you to believe.
Mitchell is a diva. It's proven and it's a pattern. He was ready to force the team to trade Gobert over the whole covid thing because he wanted to make sure the public knew it was all Gobert's fault and not his. Now he's doing the same thing with the medical team. He wants the entire league to know he's ready to go and he isn't soft, so he's trying to force his way into playing and he's willing to throw the medical staff, one that is regarded as a top NBA medical staff, under the bus to do so.
Given that, and given that we were all led to believe the injury was minor, only for it to drag on for six weeks and bleed into the playoffs, then they're not looking fantastic here.
I will say the Jazz organization could have spared themselves this PR headache from the get-go had they been more transparent about the extent of Mitchell's injury. Everybody thought it was minor and he'd be back before the playoffs.