Two days after being fined for criticizing the refs, Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert was ejected from the game early in the first quarter. Gobert, upset over getting a second foul in the first quarter, smacked a bottle off the scorer’s table. He was then called for a technical foul but continued to yell at [...]
December 7, 2018
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It has become pretty obvious following the NBA over the last decade that if you don’t have superstar talent on your roster, you have virtually no chance to contend for an NBA title. If you are a smaller market team or a team stuck in NBA purgatory in the middle of the standings with little [...]
March 19, 2018
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Ryan Bawek
Great news for a Jazz team in desperate need of some. Their star center and the best rim protector in the league, the Stifle Tower himself, Rudy Gobert is likely to return for the Jazz this weekend. [tweet https://twitter.com/kylegoon/status/954159387827847168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] He could suit up for the Jazz home game against the Knicks on Friday night or [...]
January 19, 2018
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Ryan Bawek
Rudy Gobert was initially supposed to miss between four and six weeks with a bone bruise in his right knee. So, naturally, he returned to the Utah Jazz in less than four. Gobert made his season debut on Monday night, helping the Jazz pull off a 116-69 drubbing of the Washington Wizards. He even logged [...]
December 6, 2017
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After a pretty rough stretch of basketball for the Utah Jazz in recent weeks and a deflating injury to their star center, things have turned around as the Jazz are back over .500 at 12-11 and are winners of five straight games. There is even more good news on the way for Jazz fans though, [...]
December 4, 2017
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Ryan Bawek
Rudy Gobert has made his feelings be known a few times about his distaste for how former Jazz star and current Boston Celtic Gordon Hayward handled his decision to leave the Jazz in free agency this summer. He has also made a comment in the media and shared a classic petty social media post which [...]
November 29, 2017
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Ryan Bawek
Rudy Gobert still isn’t happy with Dion Waiters. Not only did the Miami Heat guard collide with his right knee, an incident that will cost the big man four to six weeks of basketball, but he sounded less than sympathetic afterward, telling reporters, per Ira Winderman of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel: “I’ve never been a dirty [...]
November 14, 2017
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The Utah Jazz aren’t going to let Rudy Gobert’s knee injury go. The superstar big man will miss the next four to six weeks after injuring his knee on Sunday in a loss against the Miami Heat. Contact with Dion Waiters’ was the culprit of his setback, and many have questioned whether the incident included [...]
November 13, 2017
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Things aren’t going to well for the Utah Jazz thus far this season. The Jazz have lost four of their past five games as they have struggled mightily on the offensive end, and now they will be without their best player and the best defensive player in the NBA for at least a month. Rudy [...]
November 13, 2017
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Ryan Bawek
Rudy Gobert is not surprised Gordon Hayward left the Utah Jazz for the Boston Celtics. To the contrary, by the end of Utah’s sales pitch to the All-Star forward, Gobert expected him to leave for Beantown, per the Salt Lake Tribune‘s Tony Jones: He said he learned of Hayward’s departure through Twitter, although he and Hayward [...]
July 14, 2017
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