After Saturday night’s game in which the Jazz found such success inside that they scored 70 points in the paint, Rudy Gobert took the lead in the NBA’s great dunk race between himself and Giannis Antetokounmpo.
Gobert had eight dunks, all in the first half, in Saturday night’s action on his way to a 25-point, 16-rebound performance that set the tone for the Jazz. That pushed him to 143 dunks on the season. Meanwhile, Antetokounmpo had four dunks earlier Saturday in his team’s win against the Brooklyn Nets, which pushed him to 138 on the year.
The “Greek Freak," though, has played in only 33 games, while Gobert has played in 37, so Antetokounmpo is dunking the ball more frequently per contest.