![]() Gobert often brings summer basketball camp MVPs to Utah to visit and attend Jazz games during the season, working to spread the love of basketball to youths in the Salt Lake area. Since entering the NBA, Gobert has been active in a number of charitable causes, most recently donating $500,000 to support part-time workers at Salt Lake City's Vivint Smart Home Arena and help fund coronavirus relief efforts in Utah and Oklahoma City. In his final season in France, Gobert averaged 8.4 points and 5.4 rebounds per game. Gobert started playing professional basketball at Cholet Basket in 2011, spending two years there before entering the NBA Draft. Gobert caught the basketball bug when he was 12 years old and started playing for clubs in his hometown of Saint-Quentin. He was forced to return to France due to a commitment to the French National Team, but his son has since fulfilled the family's NBA quest. Gobert's father, Rudy Bourgarel, played basketball at Marist College and drew NBA interest after his university days. Rudy Gobert was born in Saint-Quentin, France in 1992. Gobert is still a productive player in most fantasy formats and can do a good job on both ends of the court while also being quite durable for big men standards, but he's not the elite big men he was a few years ago. While the return of Karl-Anthony Towns, as well as the expected jump from Anthony Edwards, could alleviate some of the concerns around him, chances are he's not going to repeat the same numbers he was delivering with the Jazz. Furthermore, his 1.4 blocks per game were his lowest mark since his second year in the league. The veteran averaged 13.4 points and 11.6 rebounds per game during the 2022-23 regular season, but it's worth noting these were his lowest results since the 2015-16 campaign. There's no doubt Gobert is effective near the rim and can score from close range with the best of them, and he remains an elite rim protector who can also grab rebounds at an elite rate, but all those traits didn't appear consistently with Minnesota. If not for some knucklehead moments over the last four minutes or so of the half, the T-Pups - and their home crowd - could’ve been completely buried early.It's hard to predict how good can Gobert be in 2023-24, in what's going to be his second year with the Timberwolves following the trade that sent him to Minnesota from the Jazz. In the final 3:20 of the second quarter, he was 1 for 4 from the field, scored three points and committed a pair of turnovers. Over the first 20 minutes and 40 seconds of the game, Nuggets guard Kentavius Caldwell-Pope poured in 10 points on 4-for-4 shooting. Riding the KCP roller-coaster, baby! If Charles Dickens was a Nuggets fan, he might have described the first half of Game 3 as the best of KCP times … followed by the worst of KCP times. With 7:21 to go in the contest, the Nuggets’ bench had outscored Minnesota’s by a count of 29-8.ģ. ![]() And yet another high-five for Connelly’s successor, Calvin Booth, who inserted such savvy pieces - Brown, Christian Braun, KCP - to finish off an NBA title contender. Credit to Tim Connelly for getting this franchise back up off the mat and setting up foundational pieces in Jokic and Murray. After three quarters, Brown had put up a plus-12 on Minnesota and his third quarter helped the visitors weather Jokic’s absence after the he got whistled for his fourth foul halfway through the quarter. ![]() Coming into Friday night, Nuggets super sub Bruce Brown had recorded a positive plus-minus number (plus-1 or higher) in 12 of his previous 18 playoff appearances going back to the spring of 2021. No NBA team has ever flipped a 3-0 deficit.Ģ. Anthony Edwards’ shoulder charge on Jamal Murray with 4:06 left in the game finally got the Nuggets in the bonus and started sucking the oxygen out of the hosts, who now trail 3-0 in the best-of-seven series. While Minnesota fans shouted, “Refs, you (expletive)” for the hundredth time with 4:46 to go in a five-point game, the T-Pups had gone to the stripe 31 times to Denver’s seven. What about phantom fouls on the NBA MVP? Or Rudy Gobert’s attempts at defending him? Home cooking on the home court happens, but the free-throw disparity Friday night bordered on the absurd. Timberwolves media couldn’t stop whining on Twitter late Friday about phantom Nikola Jokic traveling calls. Initial observations from the Nuggets’ win over the Minnesota Timberwolves in Game 3 of their first-round Western Conference playoffs matchup.ġ. Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close Menu ![]()
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