The coaching staff is not the medical staff. I guarantee Quin/Donovan are just fine.I'm saying that having fiction between your star player and the coaching staff / front office is not ideal and could prove pretty ****ing toxic.
It's not hard to figure out.
I mean, I know it's easy to treat players like they're puppets who are solely there for our entertainment...but these are actual real-life human beings with real emotions and feelings. And as much as it'd be nice to just believe these types of issues can't impact the chemistry of a team, the fact is, because you're dealing with humans and human emotions, it's not always that easy.
I don't think Mitchell would ever purposely do anything to harm his ability or the team's, but that doesn't mean it can't play a role.
Regardless, the last thing the Jazz needs right now is this ********.
You can't cave to everything a star wants. There have to be some boundaries. I don't know how anyone saying a player should be held out for his health is treating them like puppets who are solely there for our entertainment, but ok.
And this is a pattern for Mitchell. Get pissy, leak to media, throw a fit that seems "unrepairable". The same thing happened with the Gobert situation and everyone got over it just fine. Same **** going to happen again.