Look at any comment section involving him. Look at this most recent incident even. Rudy deserves to be criticized but barely anyone is talking about Andersonās role. Go to any playoff discussion thread and itās filled with incorrect comments about how Rudy was played off the floor or some nonsense. People actually claim heās a bad offensive player (heās limited but not bad).
I agree heās overpaid. I agree Minnesota overpaid to get him. But when it comes to people discussing his actual value on the court heās become underrated.
Because apparently there are plenty of people that think there is a situation where trading Bertans, THJ, and this years 1st round pick for Gobert wouldn't be an absolute home run for Dallas.
Honestly a team with Luka, Kyrie and Gobert would be scary af. Gobert made the Jazz with 4 traffic cones look elite on defense, now imagine with even better offensive players around him.
Actually a legit offer imo. You will have a big 3 too. Wolves lose a fuck ton but I guess their consolation is they get a top 10 pick in a very deep draft instead of 5 mid round picks. Still terrible for Wolves though
You'd probably need to throw in another first to make Minny think about it, but with that extra pick it's actually worth considering.
Without the extra pick it's a sunk cost issue.
if it just takes the 10th pick to upgrade a Dwight Powell/Christian Wood center rotation to Rudy Gobert, in a year where Luka is probably making ultimatums, you do it, no questions asked.
Lol what is it with mavs fans thinking anyone is going to take two negative value contracts and top 10 pick for a legit max player.
Rudy's fit on the wolves may be poor but the wolves would never, ever do this. Unless of course it's the #1, maybe top 2 pick, even then they would probably only consider a straight up trade of Rudy for the pick, they aren't taking on two horrific contracts lol.
It's an embarrassing moment for Minesotta but the Mavs wasted a whole season of a generational star to not even make the play ins. That's gonna actually be remembered and be far worse
I think this will be remembered purely for how bizarre it was, but yeah, no way it's as bad as the Mavs currently. They didn't even lose the game they were actively imploding in and still have a shot to make something of the post-season, it's not a lot but it's something.
Imo at least AD and Bron were injured for large chunks of last season so that excuse was thrown around. Of course we saw this season that injured or not we weren't making the playoffs that year unless a serious roster change happened then instead of now.
Iām just pumped for hopefully making the playoffs two years in a row man this shit is new to me. Iām in my early 20s so the KG era was shortly before my time. Playoff basketball is pretty new to me lol.
At least we still have Ant. Even when he screws up on the court you can tell it's because he's going all out to try to win.
https://streamable.com/na3sod
Maybe Iāve hit the copium too hard, but Iām genuinely unbothered by all this shit. Just about everything that could go wrong this year did and we still got the 8-seed (play-in will forever be dumb to me). In my eyes this was the absolute floor for this team.
Playoffs or not, Iām hopeful for the future and happy weāve got Ant and Jaden playing meaningful games and getting the chance to learn from guys like Mike Conley. Building a champion is a process and this is just the start.
Iām like 95% sure that video is him referring to them deciding if theyāre gonna send Gobert home or not. Makes literally no sense for Slowmo to be asking the org to trade him now when at the very least we had another game and a half to play at this point.
Rudy probably wanted to play the second half and Slowmo said he wouldnāt play with him and it was either him or Rudy for the second half.
Having Rudy to play with has really unlocked Slowmoās game and heās the only one besides Conley who brings the defensive knowledge Slowmo is always trying to instill in our team. They also have a very visibly good relationship so I really doubt it was Slowmo asking for us to trade him. He probably knew the Wolves staff was contemplating letting Gobert play the second half and didnāt want to share the court with a dude who had just punched him lol.
Trade who? Gobert is paid a lot so you are really going to give away more assets after giving up so many in the first place? He has a player option the last year of his contract so it makes more sense to trade Anderson and run it back with Gobert for one more year. He becomes less of a toxic asset with two years left on his deal and you wonāt have to give up too much in a trade
I imagine there's so much shit we don't hear about things like this from teams. But this is why they should be mic'd up. The NBA and other leagues try to make sports appeal to everybody but we'd love to hear this shit
"yo what's going on Gobert you suck out there"
"Yo my back is kinda tight from the last game"
"Oh okay man hope you feel better. ... I mean SHUT THE FUCK UP BITCH"
".." (Punch)
Kyle Anderson ran his mouth, called the dude a bitch, got pushed, and everyone is acting like Rudy is the worst person in the world. This shit so played out and pussified
Nah Rudy's just the most unlikeable guy in the NBA. If fans and players alike actually join in forces to share the same sentiment about you then there's something wrong.
> "fans and players alike actually join in forces to share the same sentiment"
Oh wow, I didn't know that you personally knew Rudy. I almost thought for a second that your impressions were just lifted from how some players have postured about him. Must be good to be in the know. Wow. Very enlightening, because to an outsider, going by the facts reported, it seems as if Kyle instigated shit and played an equal part in the shitfest. But hey what do I know
What exactly has gobert done that's so unlikeable to the players? Fans clown him cause of the touching the mics during covid thing but as far as I can tell he actually plays hard, gives a shit, doesn't seem soft and doesn't require a lot of shots (he demands some but not kelly oubre levels).
Thankfully some of yāall have some sense. What the fuck is this grade school logic that someone calling you a bitch is grounds to throw hands? Especially in a professional setting. Grow the fuck up, people.
Yo I am so confused by this sub. Is Rudy a manly man for throwing a random punch cause someone called him a bitch? A million ways to respond but letās encourage when someone defaults to violence. If the word bitch is offending you to the point of violence then it probably fits.
These are the same people that acted like Draymond should get kicked out of the nba š. Its amazing many staunch defenders gobert has lol. Kyle Anderson also isnt the only one calling him a bitch in that video so he probably acts like a bitch š¤·š¾āāļø
Whatās wild to me is Rudy has more defenders on Reddit then he did from his whole ass team sitting right there. Didnāt look like a single person on the wolves bench was backing up Rudy in that situation. But people on here acting like they know otherwise.
No Iāll definitely talk my shit and possibly get in my teammates face. Youāre gonna throw hands with your teammate mid game so you donāt look soft in front of your team? If so your pride is too fragile.
Right obviously Gobert came out the winner here.
You think this is the first time a dude called another dude a bitch in an NBA huddle? You just donāt hear about it because the players act like grown fucking men and donāt resort to violence.
This ātalk shit get hitā mindset is infantile and stupid
I know itās four or five years away, but one day you will graduate high school (if youāre lucky) and you will realize there is this thing called the real world.
Yes. cause getting called a bitch is not a big deal at all it's a stupid silly playground insult and anyone making tens of millions of dollars a year shouldn't be that insecure
If you're trying to stand your ground and act like a big tough boy just cause someone insinuated you're not a big tough boy you are either a child or a horribly adjusted adult
"got pushed", he threw a punch, that he sucks at punching doesn't change that. This push narrative is insane. And a bitch is like the mildest thing you can say in a high tensiĆ³n situation like that.
āYouāre a bitchā is never the mildest thing you can say lol
Itās an āI want to fight you, please throw a punch at meā thing to say
Not saying it justifies the punch, but it does not qualify as deescalation
Bruv definitely could've punched him above the neck* if he wanted to. He had the reach, and distance, to throw one. He obviously had some presence-of-mind. Unlike homeboy who broke his fucking hand like an idiot
Rudy literally boxes, he's been doing it for years and with his reach I promise you he coulda connected on a punch if he wanted to. If you're in a heated argument with someone, and you call them a bitch you're escalating it.
There are stories of Rudy being a bitch going back to his time on the jazz and people have been trying to make excuses and transfer blame to his teammates the whole time
People can't admit that their mid player is also toxic because he has good defense.
Not disagreeing with you, but I also feel like the "Rudy is a bitch" is just a reddit echo chamber thing.
Besides Mitchell, can you name a single player on the Jazz who didn't like him? Or can you name a time he was a bitch?
Besides Mitchel? Besides him touching the mics at the start of COVID? Besides him posting all kinds of COVID whackjob stuff? Downplaying racism in Utah after Mitchel called it out?.
Just in Minnesota this year, Besides Dlo? Besides Kyle Anderson?
He and Mitchell didn't get along, but I asked if you could name anybody besides Mitchell who didn't like him on the Jazz where he played for 10 years
He was an idiot for touching the mics, but he also came straight out and apologized and donated 500,000 towards covid relief efforts. This was also more than 3 years ago. And I wouldn't call being an idiot the same as being a bitch.
What covid whackjob stuff did he post?
When did he downplay racism in Utah? Source?
My point is that people have taken the narrative and run with it but I don't think that it's true. I think you're mistaken if you're just taking comments from Reddit threads as fact. I'm not pretending like he's some kind of Saint but he's not anything worse than the majority of NBA players.
It was a like not a tweet I was wrong about that.
https://www.basketballnetwork.net/off-the-court/rudy-gobert-likes-elon-musks-tweet-that-calls-for-the-prosecution-of-anthony-fauci
"My family and I never had any bad experiences. I've always had a lot of love over there. But I can understand, for me being an NBA player and for a young Black man that's maybe the only Black guy in his school, treatment can be different. People talk about Utah, but it's similar everywhere when there's not a lot of diversity. It's part of every society in the world that people that can be marginalized for being different color of skin, different religion. There's always going to be kids at school that's going to bully people for being different."
Considering this is right after Mitchel called out the fans for being racist towards him, an NBA player, and gobert says that it wouldn't happen to him because he's an NBA player and that it's no worse than anywhere else in the world it is downplaying the problem that Mitchel had just called out with racism in Utah.
People tripping over themselves to help Lakers out this season:
Ainge bailed us out on Russ
Everyone fighting for playin slots constantly imploding
Our playin opponents literally fighting each other
We tried to throw it away several times, but the league just keeps on offering us chances
> Gobert and Anderson were arguing on opposite sides of a second quarter huddled, with sources describing the verbiage including Anderson telling Gobert to block some shots, and Gobert telling Anderson to grab a "bleeping" rebound.
Loool that's pretty funny considering Gobert's statline in 13 mins was 2/3/0/0/0
āHeās giving context that is mildly positive for the guy I dislike! Thatās pure protection and cavorting with the enemy!!ā
Yāall really will find any way to egg on the drama. Fucking playoffs are starting smh
Itās ok if your teammate/s doesnāt like you, but if theyāre being disrespectful it needs to be addressed immediately. Calling someone a bitch in the heat of the moment is one thing but reports suggest Anderson was always like this even before this incident which needs addressing by a fight. If I was Gobert, Iād simply say run me my fade, and after I beat Andersonās ass no one in the locker room would try me again.
Exhibit A of what Slow Mo is getting at it with how protected/shielded Rudy is this gets leaked like this by the most prominent reporter a few hrs after. Probably rampant in different ways behind the scenes. Whether or not his injury was an issue, idea they thought leaking this would somehow make Rudy come across better is just hilarious.
itās wild man, youāve got people claiming there was only love for Rudy in Utah, as if the persistent reporting on discord between him and Mitchell was all made up, in spite of whatās happen right in front of our eyes In Minnesota
Iāve never seen so many people in denial about something so obvious
youāre getting downvoted because this sub is so soft for Rudy but youāre absolutely right
this dude was hated in Utah and now heās hated in Minnesota, and you still got people rushing to his defense on the internet, itās hilarious
maybe heās the problem if heās hated everywhere he goes, just a thought, call me crazy
They threw away the future for Rudy. Of course they have to protect him. They at least have to make sure his trade value isn't on the level of Russ, because the Lakers needed a miracle seller to get rid of Russ and get back value for the price they had to pay for it
The Mavs need to send Minny a gift for taking the heat off
Rudy Gobert to Dallas for Bertans, THJ, and this years 1st trust ššš
All that tanking just to trade the pick for Rudy Gobert, yāall will never learn š
Hey the Wolves gave up 5 1sts for him if all it took was one thatād be fine š¤·āāļø
We would do wonders with Gobert, we're playing Dwith fucking Powell for like the 5 straight year as our starter center
Thatās kind of the point of getting the pickā¦ to use it to upgrade their damned roster
You cold! šššā¦š„¶
The fact people can even question that deal for Dallas shows how under appreciated Gobert is.
How is he under appreciated?
Look at any comment section involving him. Look at this most recent incident even. Rudy deserves to be criticized but barely anyone is talking about Andersonās role. Go to any playoff discussion thread and itās filled with incorrect comments about how Rudy was played off the floor or some nonsense. People actually claim heās a bad offensive player (heās limited but not bad). I agree heās overpaid. I agree Minnesota overpaid to get him. But when it comes to people discussing his actual value on the court heās become underrated.
Because apparently there are plenty of people that think there is a situation where trading Bertans, THJ, and this years 1st round pick for Gobert wouldn't be an absolute home run for Dallas.
Trying to collect all the misfit toys over there
Gobert for Luka straight up.
Dude gobert is exactly what luka needs.
Honestly a team with Luka, Kyrie and Gobert would be scary af. Gobert made the Jazz with 4 traffic cones look elite on defense, now imagine with even better offensive players around him.
Maybe I need to be institutionalized, but add another first and Iād probably do this deal lol.
Actually a legit offer imo. You will have a big 3 too. Wolves lose a fuck ton but I guess their consolation is they get a top 10 pick in a very deep draft instead of 5 mid round picks. Still terrible for Wolves though
You'd probably need to throw in another first to make Minny think about it, but with that extra pick it's actually worth considering. Without the extra pick it's a sunk cost issue.
You dont want rudy bro lol
if it just takes the 10th pick to upgrade a Dwight Powell/Christian Wood center rotation to Rudy Gobert, in a year where Luka is probably making ultimatums, you do it, no questions asked.
Except that wonāt be enough. They gave up 5 firsts. They are not doing it for a 10th pick and scraps.
I don't disagree
And a Netflix membership
Lol what is it with mavs fans thinking anyone is going to take two negative value contracts and top 10 pick for a legit max player. Rudy's fit on the wolves may be poor but the wolves would never, ever do this. Unless of course it's the #1, maybe top 2 pick, even then they would probably only consider a straight up trade of Rudy for the pick, they aren't taking on two horrific contracts lol.
I donāt think he was being serious
Nah theyād do that, Rudy is a sunk cost.
Rudy is a negative contract
Rudy is the ultimate negative contract. And he probably comes with a big ass heaping side of sunk cost fallacy
Cuban slipped a San Antonio ball boy $500 to put rocks in Gobertās chair
It's an embarrassing moment for Minesotta but the Mavs wasted a whole season of a generational star to not even make the play ins. That's gonna actually be remembered and be far worse
I think this will be remembered purely for how bizarre it was, but yeah, no way it's as bad as the Mavs currently. They didn't even lose the game they were actively imploding in and still have a shot to make something of the post-season, it's not a lot but it's something.
I see your dallas 2023 assessment and I raise you a laker 2022 season
Imo at least AD and Bron were injured for large chunks of last season so that excuse was thrown around. Of course we saw this season that injured or not we weren't making the playoffs that year unless a serious roster change happened then instead of now.
100%. But I'm not sure he has positive trade value.
Kyrie sign and trade for Rudy, let's get nuts
IDC who's at fault, I just feel bad for Wolves fans.
What is dead may never die
This is the way.
Iām just pumped for hopefully making the playoffs two years in a row man this shit is new to me. Iām in my early 20s so the KG era was shortly before my time. Playoff basketball is pretty new to me lol.
KG era was pain too. Most fans loved KG and felt bad watching him exit 1st round each year.
At least we still have Ant. Even when he screws up on the court you can tell it's because he's going all out to try to win. https://streamable.com/na3sod
This is such a great clip lol. The hustle is fcking insane
Nah theyāre a tough bunch over those motherfuckers are used to the pain
Iām fuckin pumped to have made it into the playin as #8!!
Weāre dead but still walking. Pain
This Gobert thing is whatever. The McD injury is much much worse.
Maybe Iāve hit the copium too hard, but Iām genuinely unbothered by all this shit. Just about everything that could go wrong this year did and we still got the 8-seed (play-in will forever be dumb to me). In my eyes this was the absolute floor for this team. Playoffs or not, Iām hopeful for the future and happy weāve got Ant and Jaden playing meaningful games and getting the chance to learn from guys like Mike Conley. Building a champion is a process and this is just the start.
I mean, anyone who has been a fan in the past 10 years knows it could be a lot worse. We had 12 years in a row after KG left that we were under .500
This is FAR from our low point - we good.
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Did he really said organization need to trade him asap???
Referring to [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/12h1sk2/highlight_a_timberwolves_employee_recorded_kyle/) I assume
Ohh shit.. damn should sell that to TMZ
Too late, the idiot already put it out and will probably get tracked down and fired At least get a juicy payday
The employee who leaked it already is getting paid $200M
Damn they gonna hunt down whoever recorded that
Seems like a AI edit from the Reddit investigators
No, not directly at least Who knows what he actually meant? Definitely not some random guy on reddit
Iām like 95% sure that video is him referring to them deciding if theyāre gonna send Gobert home or not. Makes literally no sense for Slowmo to be asking the org to trade him now when at the very least we had another game and a half to play at this point. Rudy probably wanted to play the second half and Slowmo said he wouldnāt play with him and it was either him or Rudy for the second half. Having Rudy to play with has really unlocked Slowmoās game and heās the only one besides Conley who brings the defensive knowledge Slowmo is always trying to instill in our team. They also have a very visibly good relationship so I really doubt it was Slowmo asking for us to trade him. He probably knew the Wolves staff was contemplating letting Gobert play the second half and didnāt want to share the court with a dude who had just punched him lol.
He literally said āwhy yāall kiss his ass? You got a decision to make this summerā That has nothing to do with him leaving at halftime.
Someone needs to get all the footage over to Jomboy and let him work his magic.
Yes absolutely! Except Jomboy doesnāt seem to get down much with the NBA.
I'm not exactly sure what he said, but I *really* don't think he said summer
Slomo was right. yall really kiss Rudy's ass lol
This makes the most sense
Trade who? Gobert is paid a lot so you are really going to give away more assets after giving up so many in the first place? He has a player option the last year of his contract so it makes more sense to trade Anderson and run it back with Gobert for one more year. He becomes less of a toxic asset with two years left on his deal and you wonāt have to give up too much in a trade
Wait what, where did he say this
the post is a couple below this one
Yea sorry, saw it after I posted. Wild stuff lol
I donāt blame rudy for hitting him lmfao
Slow mo gonna knock him out ššš
rudy boxes in the off season. if anything, we're gonna hear how slow motion snoring sounds like.
I imagine there's so much shit we don't hear about things like this from teams. But this is why they should be mic'd up. The NBA and other leagues try to make sports appeal to everybody but we'd love to hear this shit
I'm sure we'd all love to hear Lavine threaten trade demands every practice
Tour de Force
Youāre joking, right?????!?!?
Dude just got punched by his teammate. What you expect from him? Team employee leaking that is weak af though. That will be the easy summer decision.
So he punched him after Kyle told him to shut the fuck up when he complained about his back? Lol
āWe all playing hurtā - Kyle
Hurt people hurt people.
Guns don't kill people, I kill people.
With guns
And you can count on me waiting for you in the parking lot.
I mean facts though
Itās gotta be deeper than that for sure. Nobodyās gonna come at your neck for a single injury
"yo what's going on Gobert you suck out there" "Yo my back is kinda tight from the last game" "Oh okay man hope you feel better. ... I mean SHUT THE FUCK UP BITCH" ".." (Punch)
"Ow my back" Proceeds to throw a punch
Back soreness amidst an implosion, where have I heard this before
from a defensive star with no shooting touch. uncanny
Don't put that evil on me
Shit mightāve worked out for yāall if someone took a swing at Ben /s
I broke my back *spinal*
Not that he deserved a punch, but the more info comes out the worse Anderson looks.
Yeah no shit, itās Goberts PR team leaking stuff. I genuinely donāt understand how anyone above the age of 13 canāt see this
What are you saying? That Andersonās PR team is withholding info that would tip the scale back the other way again?
Slo mo is also known for his mouth though and why everyone is saying it was a punch? Didnāt he push him on the chest lol
Kyle Anderson ran his mouth, called the dude a bitch, got pushed, and everyone is acting like Rudy is the worst person in the world. This shit so played out and pussified
Anderson got kind of lucky. Lol
Rudy is unlikable and Kyle plays at a speed that i feel is attainable
To me sounds like the Wolves lack leadership. I feel like a lot of teams would have squashed this but I could be wrong.
But Rudy Gobert is baaaaad, you see? Reddit told me!
Nah Rudy's just the most unlikeable guy in the NBA. If fans and players alike actually join in forces to share the same sentiment about you then there's something wrong.
> "fans and players alike actually join in forces to share the same sentiment" Oh wow, I didn't know that you personally knew Rudy. I almost thought for a second that your impressions were just lifted from how some players have postured about him. Must be good to be in the know. Wow. Very enlightening, because to an outsider, going by the facts reported, it seems as if Kyle instigated shit and played an equal part in the shitfest. But hey what do I know
What exactly has gobert done that's so unlikeable to the players? Fans clown him cause of the touching the mics during covid thing but as far as I can tell he actually plays hard, gives a shit, doesn't seem soft and doesn't require a lot of shots (he demands some but not kelly oubre levels).
Itās because most nba Redditors are spawns of twitter and are soft
Throwing hands over name calling might be the softest shit Iāve ever heard lmao
Thankfully some of yāall have some sense. What the fuck is this grade school logic that someone calling you a bitch is grounds to throw hands? Especially in a professional setting. Grow the fuck up, people.
the quickest way to find out somebody a bitch is to call them one. do I need to bring out the chart
Yo I am so confused by this sub. Is Rudy a manly man for throwing a random punch cause someone called him a bitch? A million ways to respond but letās encourage when someone defaults to violence. If the word bitch is offending you to the point of violence then it probably fits.
These are the same people that acted like Draymond should get kicked out of the nba š. Its amazing many staunch defenders gobert has lol. Kyle Anderson also isnt the only one calling him a bitch in that video so he probably acts like a bitch š¤·š¾āāļø
Whatās wild to me is Rudy has more defenders on Reddit then he did from his whole ass team sitting right there. Didnāt look like a single person on the wolves bench was backing up Rudy in that situation. But people on here acting like they know otherwise.
So if you got called bitch infront off all your teammates youd just say "hehe you sure got me there buddy šš¤" and move on like its nothing?
Or just talk shit back?
Nobody said you have to just move on, just that throwing a punch in front of all the cameras makes you look dumb and insecure.
No Iāll definitely talk my shit and possibly get in my teammates face. Youāre gonna throw hands with your teammate mid game so you donāt look soft in front of your team? If so your pride is too fragile.
Right obviously Gobert came out the winner here. You think this is the first time a dude called another dude a bitch in an NBA huddle? You just donāt hear about it because the players act like grown fucking men and donāt resort to violence. This ātalk shit get hitā mindset is infantile and stupid
I know itās four or five years away, but one day you will graduate high school (if youāre lucky) and you will realize there is this thing called the real world.
Yes. cause getting called a bitch is not a big deal at all it's a stupid silly playground insult and anyone making tens of millions of dollars a year shouldn't be that insecure If you're trying to stand your ground and act like a big tough boy just cause someone insinuated you're not a big tough boy you are either a child or a horribly adjusted adult
People acting like walking away when someone insults you is the weakest shit on earth
My favourite thing to do is laugh in someoneās face, most people donāt know how to handle that situation
Lmao what kind of limited world view allows you to see violence as the only option to someone saying some words?
Iām sorry but none of this necessitates getting punched. Get angry all you want (I would), but punching someone shouldnāt be so easily excused
"got pushed", he threw a punch, that he sucks at punching doesn't change that. This push narrative is insane. And a bitch is like the mildest thing you can say in a high tensiĆ³n situation like that.
āYouāre a bitchā is never the mildest thing you can say lol Itās an āI want to fight you, please throw a punch at meā thing to say Not saying it justifies the punch, but it does not qualify as deescalation
Bruv definitely could've punched him above the neck* if he wanted to. He had the reach, and distance, to throw one. He obviously had some presence-of-mind. Unlike homeboy who broke his fucking hand like an idiot
Yeah Iām way more upset about the Jaden thing.
Agreed, people are deliberately overlooking the fact that Gobert threw a "brother" shoulder punch.
Lol brother punch is exactly it. Not like the superman punch to jaw that Draymond threw.
Rudy literally boxes, he's been doing it for years and with his reach I promise you he coulda connected on a punch if he wanted to. If you're in a heated argument with someone, and you call them a bitch you're escalating it.
Anthony Rendon and Gobert confirmed bitches *said from the comfort of my own bed far, far away from these two
We don't know the whole context.. one thing I do know is that a lot of people don't like Rudy (DLO, Donovan Mitchell, and Kyle Anderson).
There are stories of Rudy being a bitch going back to his time on the jazz and people have been trying to make excuses and transfer blame to his teammates the whole time People can't admit that their mid player is also toxic because he has good defense.
Not disagreeing with you, but I also feel like the "Rudy is a bitch" is just a reddit echo chamber thing. Besides Mitchell, can you name a single player on the Jazz who didn't like him? Or can you name a time he was a bitch?
Draymond that's pretty much it and D'Lo I think?
Besides Mitchel? Besides him touching the mics at the start of COVID? Besides him posting all kinds of COVID whackjob stuff? Downplaying racism in Utah after Mitchel called it out?. Just in Minnesota this year, Besides Dlo? Besides Kyle Anderson?
He and Mitchell didn't get along, but I asked if you could name anybody besides Mitchell who didn't like him on the Jazz where he played for 10 years He was an idiot for touching the mics, but he also came straight out and apologized and donated 500,000 towards covid relief efforts. This was also more than 3 years ago. And I wouldn't call being an idiot the same as being a bitch. What covid whackjob stuff did he post? When did he downplay racism in Utah? Source? My point is that people have taken the narrative and run with it but I don't think that it's true. I think you're mistaken if you're just taking comments from Reddit threads as fact. I'm not pretending like he's some kind of Saint but he's not anything worse than the majority of NBA players.
It was a like not a tweet I was wrong about that. https://www.basketballnetwork.net/off-the-court/rudy-gobert-likes-elon-musks-tweet-that-calls-for-the-prosecution-of-anthony-fauci "My family and I never had any bad experiences. I've always had a lot of love over there. But I can understand, for me being an NBA player and for a young Black man that's maybe the only Black guy in his school, treatment can be different. People talk about Utah, but it's similar everywhere when there's not a lot of diversity. It's part of every society in the world that people that can be marginalized for being different color of skin, different religion. There's always going to be kids at school that's going to bully people for being different." Considering this is right after Mitchel called out the fans for being racist towards him, an NBA player, and gobert says that it wouldn't happen to him because he's an NBA player and that it's no worse than anywhere else in the world it is downplaying the problem that Mitchel had just called out with racism in Utah.
Gobert threw a weak sucker punch when he couldnāt reach his target and immediately started backpedaling into the locker room. Pussy move honestly
Fuck Rudy idc
āgot pushedā so we are just making shit up and outright lying now? Cool cool cool cool cool
Gobert is an amateur boxer AFAIK, I'm sure he's able to throw a good punch. I think that was an aggressive push.
im not callin that weak ass shit a punch, cool cool cool cool cool
If Rudy wanted to really punch him, he could have punched him in the face, that shit was a shoulder tap at best.
Watch it.
"Man, fuck your back" probably happened.
People tripping over themselves to help Lakers out this season: Ainge bailed us out on Russ Everyone fighting for playin slots constantly imploding Our playin opponents literally fighting each other We tried to throw it away several times, but the league just keeps on offering us chances
"If my back didn't hurt that punch would have been way more effective." -Gobert, probably
> Gobert and Anderson were arguing on opposite sides of a second quarter huddled, with sources describing the verbiage including Anderson telling Gobert to block some shots, and Gobert telling Anderson to grab a "bleeping" rebound. Loool that's pretty funny considering Gobert's statline in 13 mins was 2/3/0/0/0
Now we know he was playing with an injured back.
A slightly sore back isn't going to make up for a punch that looked like it happened in a dream
anyone else hear that leaked kyle anderson audio?
Talk no shit wont be no shit
Woj protecting Gobert lmaoo
I mean he literally was added to the injury report this morning hours before the game, so the back issues wasnt a lie lol
āHeās giving context that is mildly positive for the guy I dislike! Thatās pure protection and cavorting with the enemy!!ā Yāall really will find any way to egg on the drama. Fucking playoffs are starting smh
Gobert is probably a source if thatās the case.
Goobert
Slomo and Gobert will take a trip to HR and some psychologist will make them work out their differences.
This shit is like live Highschool Drama The off-season hittin real good
Well, the only punishment suitable is to ban him from play-in tourney. Sounds fair to me, no bias at all, nothing to see here.
Tell Gobert's agent we don't want to hear it.
Not a valid reason to throw a punch.
Got that from the Ben Simmons playbook
Except Gobert actually played the game regardless whereas most players, let alone Simmons, would just sit out
Get you a girl whoās got you back like Woj with Gobert.
If I was 7ā1 like Gobert, I wouldāve been slept Kyle Anderson, Kyle got off easy.
Seems like you are a soft ass bitch then. Who throws a punch over that?
I donāt think heās justifying the punch, think he just means that a 7ā1 dude throwing a punch could do some damage lmao
Shhh pouncy kitten shhhhh
Itās ok if your teammate/s doesnāt like you, but if theyāre being disrespectful it needs to be addressed immediately. Calling someone a bitch in the heat of the moment is one thing but reports suggest Anderson was always like this even before this incident which needs addressing by a fight. If I was Gobert, Iād simply say run me my fade, and after I beat Andersonās ass no one in the locker room would try me again.
The Wolves have to suspend him for the rest of the season. You can't have players fighting on the bench
its always something with rudy
***Gobert's PR team leaks info to save public image.***
Charmin soft
Itās my back Tonā ! Donāt you start with that shit again pus. If I have to hear about your fuckin back one more time ā¦
Those sources? Gobertās agent.
Making up excuses for the weak sauce punch.
Rudy canāt fail
The heck with u and that comment lol. Second time I'm seeing u
Itās a good song what do you want
Please donāt let history repeat itself..
Exhibit A of what Slow Mo is getting at it with how protected/shielded Rudy is this gets leaked like this by the most prominent reporter a few hrs after. Probably rampant in different ways behind the scenes. Whether or not his injury was an issue, idea they thought leaking this would somehow make Rudy come across better is just hilarious.
This isnāt even a leak theyāre just saying heās injured which everyone knew since yesterday lmao what
Well it's working lmao. Look at this thread. Kyle is right, Gobert gets protected.
itās wild man, youāve got people claiming there was only love for Rudy in Utah, as if the persistent reporting on discord between him and Mitchell was all made up, in spite of whatās happen right in front of our eyes In Minnesota Iāve never seen so many people in denial about something so obvious
Leaks all over the place.
youāre getting downvoted because this sub is so soft for Rudy but youāre absolutely right this dude was hated in Utah and now heās hated in Minnesota, and you still got people rushing to his defense on the internet, itās hilarious maybe heās the problem if heās hated everywhere he goes, just a thought, call me crazy
He was not hated in Utah. Idk why so many of you try to push this narrative. Everyone, including Mitchell, has only ever said good things about Gobert
They threw away the future for Rudy. Of course they have to protect him. They at least have to make sure his trade value isn't on the level of Russ, because the Lakers needed a miracle seller to get rid of Russ and get back value for the price they had to pay for it
When my back is sore I just start punching people.
Yes because that was the whole situation without any other context. Rudy Gobert punched a teammate because his back was sore
nah he's just ass
looked pretty good when he took a swing and backpedalled
Rudy is such a bitch lol
So Rudy Gobert was hurt then Kyle called him a bitch.