Source: Salt Lake Tribune

The Jazz's Gordon Hayward and Derrick Favors are two of the best basketball players in the world, part of an elite group of professionals who have beaten astronomical odds to make it to the NBA and get selected to play on the team that is helping prepare Team USA for the London Olympics.

Yet even they have been a little awestruck by everything here.

While Hayward acknowledged that it's hard to concentrate on answering questions while superstar Blake Griffin is over there putting on a spectacular post-practice dunking demonstration, Favors said he has had his eyes opened in just a few days of practice against the Olympians at UNLV's Mendenhall Center.

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