NBA: One question left unanswered for every team in 2019-20
Utah Jazz
To keep their dynamic duo together or not?
This has nothing to do with what has happened over the last few weeks regarding COVID-19, and it’s great to hear that both Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gobert are recovering. I just wanted to make that clear before we got into the real topic. However, looking at the Western Conference as a whole you have to wonder whether the Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gobert pairing is a duo that the team can compete with.
If those two players are your two best players, can you win a championship? It’s an honest question to ask and probably not a question that the Utah Jazz can answer easily. On paper, of course, you’d hope so. However, I’m not so sure.
If the Jazz doesn’t believe that it can, perhaps they let Gobert walk in free agency after next season or try to trade him as an expiring deal in hopes of landing some sort of asset before he walks for nothing.