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- What's up guys, I'm Donovan Mitchell.
I'm here with GQ and these are my ten essentials.
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My first essential, it's gotta be the jewelry.
My mom actually bought both of these for me.
Nice Rolex watch, and the spider chain,
obviously, for my nickname. These mean a lot to me,
just because these are really like my mom's
first big purchases for me.
So I - just a big quick shout out to my mom
and, you know, just thanking her for all she's done for me.
And this is the daily reminder
that my mom's always got me, and always kept by my side.
The spider nickname,
it came from when I was about 9 or 10 years old.
A teammate's dad of mine.
He gave everybody on the team nicknames and I kept getting
steals and he kept calling me the spider.
Next thing you know, you know,
I make the NBA and do what I do.
And that's been like that my whole life, basically.
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My next item's gotta be my Body Armor. Right here
I have the tropical punch. For me to be able to perform
and to play at the highest level,
not only is it what you do on the floor,
but it's what you do off the floor -
taking care of your body.
Having equity in Body Armor and working with Body Armor,
having that partnership. It's definitely great
being able to have your refrigerator stocked with as much
Body Armor - tropical punch, fruit punch.
I gotta continuously, you know, fuel my body the right way.
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My next essential has gotta be gummy bears.
It's been something for me I've eaten my whole life,
in between AU games, class.
I need these specific Haribo golden pack gummy bears,
and I can knock these down within like five minutes.
So I used to go to sleep every night, you know,
and eat them as I fall asleep on the side of my bed.
And you'd kind of find 'em -
the wrappers -
right next to my bed.
All the time.
Whether it's leaving the wrappers around as a kid,
I shouldn't even say as a kid, sometimes to this day,
you know, it's not really part of my diet at all,
but this little guilty pleasure you have,
and this is definitely one of 'em.
My next essential's gotta be my Uno cards.
This version is actually pretty dope. Cause it's The Office,
which is my favorite TV show.
I'm always finding a way to play, you know,
enjoying time on the weekends with my friends, you know,
there's different ways to play. I've tweeted at Uno,
Uno's tweeted back at me with the rules that, to this day,
we disagree on, but you know, I think I'm probably
one of the top Uno players in the world.
Self-proclaimed out of the 450 NBA players, 460,
whatever it is, I'm definitely number one,
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Microsoft tablet. You know, I'm watching the film
on a daily basis.
Growing up you always wanna watch your,
your highlights, you know, in the stuff that you do well.
But I think for me, understanding and watching
the bad games, watching the bad possessions,
really help you grow as a player.
You know, I watched the game differently now
than I did five years ago before I got into the league.
You know, how people got to certain shots, you know,
a lot of the times people look at shots and say, man,
it's a tough shot, but you know,
how did he get to that point?
You can't always be in the gym because you travel and you
play so many minutes.
So you got to find ways to get your mental reps as well as
the physical ones, and film was a way from me that I can
continuously find ways to grow.
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So my next essential...
my own shoe.
The D.O.N. Issue 3's, right here.
And then my own Adidas Forum low's.
This is my third signature shoe and I'm truly honored
and truly blessed to be able to have my own shoe and to be
able to inspire the youth and just inspire people with,
you know, the concepts, the colorways,
and just be able to have your own shoe
that's dedicated to yourself.
When I walk around New York City and there's
parks everywhere, you know, I'll see a kid in my shoe
and I'll just stop by, you know, and just watch.
I was that kid, you know,
and if I had certain player's shoes on,
having them just pull up, you know, see me in that shoe,
I think would be the coolest thing in the world. So for me,
if I see it on Instagram, I see it on Twitter,
I try to, you know, just show love and show appreciation.
Being able, just to kind of make their day
and return the love, for sure.
Next one, you got to go with the Xbox controller.
I play with my teammates. You know,
I play with guys throughout the league.
I play with my friends back home.
Whether it's 2K, Call of Duty, FIFA, MLB The Show,
now that that's finally back on Xbox,
so I'm excited about that.
But my love for it really grew during the quarantine when
there was really not much else to do,
kind of goes back to what I was saying about people wearing
my shoes. So when we were playing 2K,
I tried to play with as many random people as possible.
I don't like to play with just my friends. I'd be like,
all right, I'm going to go play with - on this court
with these kids or at this person's.
That's dope, you know, to be able to
just make a person's day,
just being able to play X-Box with them
and kind of communicate.
Online gaming wins 10 times out of 10.
You got some ten-year-olds on there that losing their mind
[laughs] for sure.
Next essentials gotta be Stance everything.
Socks, mask, we have our own Spider/Stance masks.
These are based on the movie Soul,
the Disney movie Soul, and I really loved it. You know,
I think it was a great movie and I think it was a good
message for kids. I have my own store in Utah, you know,
so I'm heavily invested in, into Stance and
just to be able to go ahead and just allow
kids to be able to feel like I'm reachable in certain
instances, maybe not physically,
but being able to wear my socks, wear my shoes,
wear my stuff. And then also myself being able
to kind of pull out some, some dope socks like these,
I think it's pretty, pretty cool.
My next item is definitely a Mets hat.
I grew up playing baseball my whole life.
So I've always been wearing hats, you know, on the field,
off the field. Guys like José Reyes, David Wright, you know,
my favorite player was Mike Piazza growing up and just being
able to rep them, you know, rep anything
that I really support. I wanted to be a baseball player
more than basketball, so this was kind of like
the second decision.
You know, obviously it panned out.
Hot take, would I be better than MJ?
See the thing is, people always want to, you know,
get on MJ for his baseball skills,
but people don't understand. He was,
I think it was like 220 batting average,
which in baseball is really solid.
He was able to do that after three championships.
I got to get one,
at least before I even contemplate doing that.
My final essential - my headphones.
I'm a walking soundtrack. You know, wherever I go,
if I'm walking upstairs and downstairs,
if I walk into the games like there's music always playing,
there's always something, you know,
whether it's rap, R&B, you know, gospel,
whether it's Kirk Franklin, Donnie McClurkin,
Yolanda Adams, the list can go on.
You know, I played the drums growing up.
I was in a band and I was doing all that stuff.
So I've been around music pretty much my whole life.
So actually this collab with the Beats headphones actually
came out with my first shoe.
So they ended up sending my own logo on the, on the case.
And there's a saying, every hooper wants to be a rapper,
every rapper wants to be a hooper.
I don't want to be a rapper,
but something that I really wanted to do is just watch,
you know, some of the greats
just in the process of how they make
their music. Well, like, Jay-Z is my favorite rapper.
What's his process on a daily basis to find the music,
to find the words, to find the beat, you know.
I think that, for me, is something that
I've always wanted to just experience and then
kind of see.
All right guys, I appreciate it. It's been fun.
These are my 10 essentials right here.
I'm going to go ahead and get back to
eating these gummy bears and get right for the season.
Appreciate it.