That mark stood until the 2019 Draft Combine, when future Orlando Magic big man Mo Bamba broke it with a 7-foot, 10-inch wingspan. The evolution of Rudy Gobert - Deseret News We present them here for purely educational purposes. Then came the one-two punch of Gobert and McDaniels in the regular-season finale, with Gobert earning a suspension for a play-in loss to the Lakers after his punch of Anderson, and McDaniels ending his season with a punch of a tunnel wall over frustration with foul calls. Chris Hine is the Timberwolves reporter at the Star Tribune. Gobert has a 7-foot-9 wingspan and 9-foot-9 standing reach. The Wolves' lack of consistent effort showed up on nights they played some of the worst teams in the league. Our reasoning for presenting offensive logos. And this week, the NBAs office named him the Western Conferences Player of the Week, after averaging 16.3 points on 77.8 percent shooting from the field, 15.5 rebounds, 2.3 blocks and 1.0 assists in 31.1 minutes per game during a 3-1 stretch for the Jazz. It is no surprise then that he has been named All-Defense four times and averages over two blocks per game over his career. Is Rudy Gobert Utah's Big Advantage or Big Problem? (42-40, 8th place in NBA Western Conference), More: Scan this QR code to download the app now. Spin: The duo of Gobert and Karl-Anthony Towns was expected to bring an imposing force to Minnesota's frontcourt, but despite the offseason acquisition of Gobert, the team barely broke even this season and crept into the quarterfinals via the Play-In Tournament. The team is also set up to potentially make more significant moves next offseason. 27 pick in that years draft by the Denver Nuggets, who sent his draft rights to Utah in exchange for a second-round pick and cash. Amick adds that the franchise is still high on Clint Capela, who has averaged 13.0 points, 13.0 rebounds and 1.6 blocks per game over two seasons with Atlanta. But as well suited as Gobert is for basketball, those other sports might have put him in more of the limelight, had he gone . Rudy Gobert Twitter : rudygobert27 Instagram: rudygobert27 (The Stifle Tower, The French Rejection, The Gobert Report, Gobzilla) Position: Center Shoots: Right More bio, uniform, draft, salary info 3x All Star 2021-22 TRB Champ 2016-17 BLK Champ 4x All-NBA 6x All-Defensive 3x Def. Ive grown as a man and as a player before your very eyes and Im thankful from [sic] every single moment. DENVER With 3 minutes, 39 seconds to play in the Timberwolves' 112-109 season-ending loss to Denver on Tuesday, Nikola Jokic put up a contested shot in the lane against Karl-Anthony Towns with the Wolves down 97-96. Because if there was a common thread throughout the season, the Wolves never got a maximized version of Towns, Gobert or the roster as a whole, and that defined what was largely a lost season for a team that doesn't have a large window to contend. Win a few more of those games and there might not be a pressure-packed end to the season, when the Wolves had a pair of meltdowns on the final day of the regular season when Gobert attempted to punch Kyle Anderson in a timeout huddle. In Utah, however, the situation with Mitchell as it is seems untenable. Javascript is required for the selection of a player. I like Stifle Tower. Logos were compiled by the amazing SportsLogos.net. Gobert has a standing reach of 9 feet, 9 inches, which would make him a pretty intimidating guy to face in the boxing ring. Height w/ shoes: 7'0". Utah, knowing it needed a scorer, traded with the Nuggets for Louisville's Donovan Mitchell on draft night. Since the NBA began tracking screen assists and contested shots in 2016-17, he has ranked among the best in both departments. Then you add in his 270 pound frame and 39 inch vertical leap and it . The long arm of the law: The NBA Draft Combine has been taking stock of Draft prospect measurables since 2000. On Thursday, with the opening of free agency, Utahs front office sent starting forward Royce ONeale a strong 3-point shooter and the teams best perimeter defender to the Brooklyn Nets for a 2023 first-round pick. Noted salary cap expert Yossi Gozlan of HoopsHype has noted that the team could now have more than $40 million in salary cap space in 2023. Its hard to quantify that, you know?. In one of the most infamous moments in NBA history, Gobert sat on the podium after a March game and downplayed the COVID-19 pandemic, touching every microphone before leaving. Rudy Gobert Childhood Story Plus Untold Biography Facts (The Jazz are now free from the five-year, $205 million extension Gobert signed in December 2020, while Beverley is in the final year of his deal. It was 7-foot-1 tall with a 7-9 wingspan and 9-9 standing reach big. Were he a soccer goalkeeper, would he be the favorite to stop every penalty kick? And when he puts his arms up he has a standing reach of 9'7. We feel like we got a lot of room to get better. There are Hall of Famers (Sidney Moncrief, 1982-84; Michael Jordan, 1986-88; Dennis Rodman, 1989-91; Hakeem Olajuwon, 1992-94; Dikembe Mutombo, 1996-98, Alonzo Mourning, 1999-2000) in that mix, one likely future HOFer (Ben Wallace, 2001-03 & 04-06) as well as Goberts contemporaries Kawhi Leonard (2014-16) and Dwight Howard (2008-11). The Utah Jazz acquired a . You dont get Player of the Week without winning games, so its more about, you know, what the teams been doing, Gobert said.