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Chris Paul and Paul George helped convince Donovan Mitchell to stay in the 2017 draft.

Mitchell paid all of his expenses when he traveled to Thousand Oaks last spring to participate in the Creative Artists Agency pre-draft camp because he wanted to maintain his eligibility at Louisville.

"When I left school, my room was still clean, full of stuff," Mitchell said. "I never packed. I was coming back for a third year. In my head, 100 percent, coming back."

Paul and George worked out with Mitchell at the camp and helped convince him he was already good enough for the NBA.

"He's really good," George told reporters recently, calling Mitchell the steal of the draft. "He's a tough, fearless kid. We all saw that working out with him this past summer. I knew he was going to blossom."

Paul and Mitchell still talk several times a week.

"He can really, really play," Paul said. "I'm not surprised by it at all. He can play. He's strong, and he loves the game -- both ends, whether it's offense or defense. I don't know if it's because he's in Utah, everybody's surprised by it. I'm not."

Via Tim MacMahon/ESPN

Good advice.

I can imagine them telling him to stay in the draft and in a couple of years he can force his way to the Lakers and join up with them on a superteam.

The super team that features Paul George is the super team that will go nowhere. As a tolerant Pacer fan, I'm just glad to see him gone. He was a cancer. He rarely ever gave 100% and drug down players around him. I liked the Oladipo trade from the start but after seeing the difference in this years team verse last years, I've concluded that we could have traded PG for a chicken nugget and got the better end of the deal. The subtraction of Paul George was addition by default. Oladipo and Sabonis came as a bonus.

23artest23 wrote:The super team that features Paul George is the super team that will go nowhere. As a tolerant Pacer fan, I'm just glad to see him gone. He was a cancer. He rarely ever gave 100% and drug down players around him. I liked the Oladipo trade from the start but after seeing the difference in this years team verse last years, I've concluded that we could have traded PG for a chicken nugget and got the better end of the deal. The subtraction of Paul George was addition by default. Oladipo and Sabonis came as a bonus.

Truer words have never been spoken. People outside of Indiana look at him as a star...good luck with that