You really should be in Salt Lake City. It’s cool. Really.

There’s something going on here, so look: Full-capacity crowds have returned. The Western Conference semifinals have begun, with the Jazz snaring the series’ first two games from the Los Angeles Clippers. Jazz player Bojan Bogdanovic has called the noise the loudest of his seven-year tour of the NBA. There’s a dude on a bike before Game 1 riding around with a speaker playing “Zombie Nation” and “Get Ready For This.” On an outdoor stairwell alone, a small part of the two lines for Game 2, there’s a Mitchell, two Mitchells together, and another Mitchell; on the other queue, a Mitchell, a Mitchell, a No. 27 (for Rudy Gobert, the NBA defensive player of the year, the French “Stifle Tower”), another Mitchell, another Mitchell.