NBA: 5 teams to watch as the post-All-Star break playoff push begins

NBA Boston Celtics Gordon Hayward (Photo by Maddie Meyer/Getty Images)
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NBA Utah Jazz Donovan Mitchell (Photo by Streeter Lecka/Getty Images)

Utah Jazz

Entering the NBA All-Star break, the Utah Jazz have won 14 of the last 20 games. And since the new year, Donovan Mitchell has been looked like a different player. During the month of January, Mitchell averaged 28 points, four rebounds and five assists on 45 percent shooing from the field and 41 percent from 3-point range.

He followed that up with a 22-point, five-assist and five-rebound start to the month of February. The Jazz are just two games back of the 4th seed in the West, and will be vying to host a first-round playoff series.

That could be huge in such a series between two evenly matched teams. Entering the year, the Jazz were a trendy pick to possibly knock off the Warriors. Could they continue to trend towards being that threat during the playoff push?

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