In a video interview with ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski, however, Mitchell admitted that he was extremely intimidated when he went up against Westbrook (who was still with the Oklahoma City Thunder at the time) for the first time in the 2017-18 season. “Westbrook was one of my favorite players,” the 23-year-old Jazz guard shared. “He does that thing where he sits on the bench pregame, so physically seeing him I had to get that ‘Oh, thats Russell Westbrook out of my head’. So Steven Adams is standing in from of him and I peek around him and Steven moves, and Russell is giving me the death stare right in my first game.”