Rudy Gobert

Was Rudy Gobert a top-10 player in the NBA last season? The Utah Jazz sure think so. As general manager Dennis Lindsey said, per Andy Blarsen of KSL.com: [tweet https://twitter.com/andyblarsen/status/882767055631417345] This is…quite the proclamation. In some ways, it’s a defense mechanism. The Jazz just lost Gordon Hayward, who many consider their best player. It’s only [...]

If Rudy Gobert is even half as talented at recruiting free agents as he is at playing basketball, Gordon Hayward won’t be leaving the Utah Jazz. Gobert, one of the NBA’s foremost frontrunners for the Defensive Player of the Year award, plans to pull out all the stops to get his teammate, who owns a [...]

Rudy Gobert must really want the Utah Jazz to finish with a top-four playoff seed in the Western Conference. Following a loss to the Los Angeles Clippers on Saturday, the Jazz’s third such loss to their likely first-round opponent, Gobert questioned his squad’s competitiveness. Those remarks, per Aaron Falk of The Salt Lake Tribune, prompted a [...]

The 2017 NBA All-Star reserves were announced on Thursday night, and as always, there were deserving players left out of the equation. Singling out slights is tricky business, because it’s easy to say so-and-so earned the nod; it’s another thing to pick out who said player should have been selected over.  But Rudy Gobert of the [...]

Rudy Gobert has been playing the best all-around basketball of his career the past month or so, averaging 16-13-3 on a ridiculous 81 percent shooting from the field in December. He is currently also number three in the NBA in defensive plus/minus rating behind the Greek Freak and Draymond Green at +4.4. His recent success [...]

The Utah Jazz are still trying to ensure Rudy Gobert never reaches restricted free agency. With the deadline for extensions fast approaching, Gobert and the Jazz remain locked in contract talks, per The Vertical’s Adrian Wojnarowski: [tweet https://twitter.com/WojVerticalNBA/status/792793399099293696] Gobert and the Jazz have until 11:59 p.m. ET on Halloween night to hash out an agreement. [...]

Carmelo Anthony and the Knicks have been playing great of late and seem to have found their mojo. Melo had another great game at Madison Square Garden last night with 30 points, nine assists and seven rebounds on 13-for-20 shooting and 4-for-4 shooting from the free throw line. It was the Knicks second straight overtime [...]

Rudy Gobert won’t be swallowing shots at the rim for the Utah Jazz for a while. Make the appropriate sad faces whenever you please. The news came swiftly and unexpected Wednesday night, with the Jazz releasing a statement that outlined the indeterminable terms of Gobert’s absence: After sustaining a left knee injury during today’s practice [...]

Rudy Gobert takes no prisoners on Twitter. Late in the fourth quarter of the Utah Jazz’s 93-89 victory over the Toronto Raptors on Wednesday night, DeMar DeRozan drove his way past Gordon Hayward. That’s typically no big deal. The Jazz have a tendency to funnel ball-handlers into the paint, blatantly daring them to score on [...]

Rudy Gobert’s sprained ankle is of little concern to Rudy Gobert. The third-year shot-swallower left with a sprained ankle during the fourth quarter of the Utah Jazz’s 118-114 loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers on Tuesday and did not return. The idea that he could miss time, any time at all, is absolutely terrifying, because the [...]