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On March 3, he recorded 15 points and a career-high 24 rebounds in a 93–82 win over the Memphis Grizzlies. On January 9, 2015, he recorded a career-high seven blocked shots in a loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder. On October 24, 2014, the Jazz exercised their third-year team option on Gobert's rookie scale contract, extending the contract through the 2015–16 season. In July 2014, Gobert re-joined the Jazz for the 2014 NBA Summer League. He played sparingly for the Jazz in 2013–14, making an appearance in 45 of the team's 82 regular season games. He was later recalled by the Jazz on December 21, reassigned on January 4, and recalled again on January 13.
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Gobert was a starter in all eight of his games in the Development League, scoring a double-double in six of those games. On December 14, he was assigned to the Bakersfield Jam of the NBA Development League. In just his 12th game for the Jazz on November 24, Gobert scored a season-high 10 points against the Oklahoma City Thunder. On July 6, he signed his rookie scale contract with the Jazz and joined them for the 2013 NBA Summer League. He was later traded on draft night to the Utah Jazz. On June 27, 2013, Gobert was selected with the 27th overall pick by the Denver Nuggets. These dimensions earned him the nickname "The Stifle Tower." The record for wingspan was broken a year later by Walter Tavares.
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Gobert declared for the 2013 NBA draft and set NBA Draft Combine records for wingspan (7 feet 8½ inches) and standing reach (9 feet 7 inches) in the 2013 combine. Utah Jazz (2013–present) 2013–14 season: Rookie season During the next season in 2012–13, he averaged 8.4 points and 5.4 rebounds per game in 27 games. In 2011–12, he averaged 4.2 points and 3.6 rebounds per game in 29 games for Cholet.
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Professional career Cholet (2011–2013)įrom 2009 to 2011, Gobert mostly played for the Cholet Basket junior team, managing just one game for the senior team in 2010–11, recording 6 points, 5 rebounds, 1 steal and 1 block in 13 minutes on against Pau-Lacq-Orthez. In 2007, he joined Cholet Basket's cadet categories training center and in 2010, he participated in the FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship with the French under-18 national team, where he finished as the team's best scorer and rebounder. Gobert started playing basketball in 2003 for the JSC St-Quentin club, before later joining the Saint-Quentin BB club. Gobert's parents split when he was around three years old he stayed with his mother in Saint-Quentin and made regular trips to Guadeloupe for his father. Bourgarel played professional basketball in Paris and Saint-Quentin, where he met Gobert's mother. His father, Rudy Bourgarel, is from Guadeloupe and played college basketball in the United States for the Marist Red Foxes from 1985 to 1988. Gobert was born in Saint-Quentin, Aisne, in the north of France.
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After teammates of Gobert's on the Utah Jazz, including Donovan Mitchell, also tested positive, the NBA postponed the 2019–20 season until its resumption on July 30 of the same year. In March 2020, Gobert tested positive for COVID-19, becoming the first NBA player with a confirmed case of the virus. Gobert was named to the All-NBA Second Team in 2017, and the All-NBA Third Team in 2019, 20. Gobert was also the NBA blocks leader in the 2016–17 season and the NBA rebounding leader in the 2021–22 season. He is a four-time All-NBA Team member, six-time All-Defensive First Team member, and three-time NBA All-Star. Gobert has won the NBA Defensive Player of the Year award three times, tied for second-most in NBA history. He is considered one of the NBA’s best rim protectors. Standing at 7 ft 1 in (2.16 m) tall with a wingspan of 7 ft 9 in (2.36 m) long, he plays the center position. He also represents the French national team in their international competitions. Rudy Gobert-Bourgarel ( / ɡ oʊ ˈ b ɛər/ goh- BEAR born June 26, 1992) is a French professional basketball player of the Utah Jazz of the National Basketball Association (NBA).