SALT LAKE CITY — Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert’s first introduction to NBA basketball was through the Michael Jordan’s cult classic Space Jam movie in the 1990s.
Rarely would he ever get to check out live NBA action, though.
“I was watching Space Jam when I was a kid but that was pretty much the only thing I knew about the NBA,” Gobert admitted. “Once I got 13 or 14 years old, I started watching a lot of videos on YouTube and NBA.com and I started following the NBA ball.”
For the younger generation growing up in Gobert’s homeland, that could be changing soon as NBA basketball could be headed to France sooner than later.