The Utah Jazz are, at least record wise, the best team in the NBA. With one legit star in Donovan Mitchell and another above average player in Rudy Gobert. Both players are having terrific seasons with Mitchell averaging 25 points, 5 rebounds, and 5 assits per game and Gobert is averaging 14 points and 13 rebounds and a lot of Gobert's contributions coming on the defensive side of the ball. Rudy Gobert won Defensive Player of the Year in 2018 and 2019 and in the early portion of this season he ranked first in defensive rebounds, second in blocks, and his defensive rating was tops in the league. Both Mitchell and Gobert made the All Star game this year and the argument can be made that they deserve it being that they are the best players on the best team. Recently the NBA changed the way the All Star team starters were decided with the previous year's MVPs decided who would be on their team in a draft like format. This year it was Brooklyn Net star Kevin Durant and Los Angeles Laker star LeBron James deciding who would be on each team.
Both Durant and James starting choosing players with Durant choosing both his Brooklyn Nets teammates James Harden and Kyrie Irving and LeBron choosing Stephen Curry of the Golden State Warriors and Luka Doncic amongst other players voted in by fans, players, and the rest were picked by coaches and media members. As player after player kept coming off the board only two lingered. The two stars from Utah. Both Mitchell and Gobert were left hanging. After the draft LeBron joked that the Jazz weren't a team that he played with in videogames as a child and that's what lead to him and Durant leaving them for last. The two best players on the best team in the Association need to use this as the disrespect that it is and make a run at the Larry O'Brien trophy and earn the respect that Karl Malone and John Stockton never could.
