He may not have been an NBA All-Star this past season (thanks a bunch, coaches!), but apparently this Rudy Gobert cat is pretty good. At the NBA Awards Show on Monday, the Utah Jazz center followed up his second career All-NBA nod with his second straight Defensive Player of the Year award.
With his Jazz coach Quin Snyder, assistant coach Alex Jensen and others in attendance, Utah’s man in the middle gave a short, but sweet acceptance speech, thanking his teammates, coaches, the Jazz organization and his mother for helping him along the way.
Although there were other strong candidates in the category this year, Gobert’s repeat here was well-earned, and the statistics prove as much.