Seeing the Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gobert relationship solidified is great news for the Utah Jazz.

Every weekday, SI’s Chris Mannix will check-in with his Bubble Bits, a quick hit on something notable from inside the NBA’s campus

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla.—One by one, Jazz players trickled into the interview rooms on Tuesday night, a devastated look on their faces. A Game 7 loss to Denver came down to a wild sequence in the closing seconds that began with a Donovan Mitchell turnover and continued with a bizarre Nuggets fast break before finishing with a Mike Conley three-pointer that rimmed out. Just like that, Utah was going home.

“To be honest, I [was] in shock,” Mitchell said. “That was it. You work so hard to get to a point that we got to, and we were this close. We were down, we came back, and fought and clawed. … This