Jazz fans should be touched to see Donovan Mitchell & Jordan Clarkson reunited

There is some irony in the fact that the Utah Jazz acquired Jordan Clarkson from the same team they then traded Donovan Mitchell to two and a half years later. The two of them may have been teammates for a short time frame, but the Jazz fanbase should be thrilled to see the two of them practice together during the offseason.

Clarkson and Mitchell were recently filmed playing basketball together in Connecticut with training camp only weeks away.

Mitchell is in line to play his fourth season with the Cavaliers - it's already been that long?! - while Clarkson will play for a new team for the first time since 2019 with the New York Knicks. Despite obviously being of different calibers of players, Mitchell's and Clarkson's calling card are their scoring abilities, though one is definitely better than the other.

It's fun to see workouts like these where it's not only former teammates practicing each other, but basically an iron sharpens iron situation. The two can truly push each other because of the variety of ways in which they can put the ball in the bucket.

It's a nostalgic story for Jazz fans

Now, of course, they aren't currently NBA teammates and may never play for the same NBA team at the same time again, but it is cool to see that the two of them still share such camaraderie all these years later.

The two of them helped bring a fun era of Jazz basketball to the fans. Utah may not have gotten to the promised land despite the talent the roster possessed, and there was well-reported tension in the locker room around that time, but at least Clarkson and Mitchell were not only friends but kept their friendship going after they split up as teammates back in 2022.

While the Jazz and their fans can look to the future, it is fun to get a good look at the past and see that two alumni still spend time together on the basketball court despite not being teammates anymore. It's for that same reason that Jazz fans have gotten attached to the Minnesota Timberwolves because of how many Jazz alumni from a previous era currently play for them.

With their current situation, there's no telling if there will be similar stories like this that could come out from this current Jazz squad not too long from now. Of course, the circumstances are a bit different now than they were in the late-2010s and early 2020s, but teammates can still form that connection whether they are winning or not.