Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell (45) and center Rudy Gobert look at the scoreboard during a timeout during the second half of Game 1 of an NBA basketball first-round playoff series against the Houston Rockets, Sunday, April 14, 2019, in Houston. Houston won the game 122-90. (AP Photo/Eric Christian Smith)
Eric is a West Valley City native and a graduate of Granger High School and the University of Utah who joined The Tribune in 2003. He hoards rescue cats and guinea pigs, reads historical fiction, watches British baking shows, and obsesses over 1980s hair-metal bands in his spare time.