Rudy Gobert

The Utah Jazz are trading three-time Defensive Player of the Year Rudy Gobert to the Minnesota Timberwolves for a haul of players and multiple first-round ...

Bolmaro was a first-round pick in the 2020 draft, going No. 23 overall. He and Mitchell famously feuded in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020. Vanderbilt is a 6-9, 214-pound power forward who started 67 games for the Wolves this past season. After playing a limited role as a freshman at North Carolina, he transferred to Auburn, where he had a breakout performance, averaging 11.4 points, 8.1 rebounds, and 4.6 blocks per game. The 25-year-old is a career 38.6% shooter behind the arc. On Thursday, with the opening of free agency, Utah’s front office sent starting forward Royce O’Neale — a strong 3-point shooter and the team’s best perimeter defender — to the Brooklyn Nets for a 2023 first-round pick. As Gobert returned from his COVID-related absence, he blasted the team’s defense without him, taking a thinly-veiled shot at Mitchell by noting that Phoenix Suns counterpart Devin Booker was “playing his ass off” defensively. However, he has developed into one of the league’s best players in recent years. Those picks will be unprotected selections from the Wolves in 2023, ’25, and ’27, plus a top-five protected pick in 2029. Gobert and star guard Donovan Mitchell have been Utah’s centerpieces for the past half-decade. In the interim, the team now has a haul of future first-round picks, plus a moveable piece in Beverley, some young talent in Beasley and Vanderbilt, and fliers on young and unproven Kessler and Bolmaro. In the 2021-22 season, he led the NBA in rebounds (14.7) and FG% (71.3%) while also averaging 15.6 points and 2.1 blocks.

Gobert is a three-time Defensive Player of the Year.

The Timberwolves are trying to give themselves a chance to compete right now, and the Jazz are taking a step back hoping to figure it out later. If they could get four first-rounders for Gobert, they'd likely be able to fetch even more for the younger Mitchell, and moving him now would have the added benefit of positioning the Jazz to potentially land one of the top picks in the loaded 2023 NBA Draft. Headlining that class is another French center, Victor Wembanyama, who has been compared to Gobert defensively, but has a much more diverse game offensively. Gobert is a three-time NBA Defensive Player of the Year and is widely considered the league's best rim protector.

The Timberwolves are adding the NBA's best defensive center to pair with stars Karl-Anthony Towns and Anthony Edwards. After a few days of rumors of a move, ...

The Timberwolves reached the playoffs for the first time since 2018, and fell in a competitive six-game series to the Grizzlies in the first round. The seven-footer is a three-time NBA Defensive Player of the Year, and has four total All-NBA teams and three All-Star Games to his name. In return, Utah will receive Malik Beasley, Patrick Beverley, Jarred Vanderbilt, Leandro Bolmaro, 2022 draftee Walker Kessler and multiple first round picks, Wojnarowski says.

The Utah Jazz are trading star big man Rudy Gobert to the Minnesota Timberwolves, according to ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski.

The New York native was long rumored to be disgruntled with Gobert, dating back to the Frenchman’s central role in the NBA’s COVID-19 shutdown in 2020, among other gripes. Gobert, 30, was long-rumored to be traded from Utah this offseason. The Utah Jazz are trading star big man Rudy Gobert to the Minnesota Timberwolves, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.

The Utah Jazz are reportedly trading three-time Defensive Player of the Year Rudy Gobert to the Minnesota Timberwolves, according to ESPN's Adrian ...

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Minnesota sends a steep package, including 5 players and 5 picks, to Utah.

Like a few other teams on the top of that list — the Lakers and Brooklyn, primarily — they wound up as disappointments. Utah acquired a 2023 first-round pick from the Brooklyn Nets on Thursday in exchange for Royce O’Neale. He’s made the All-Star Game in three consecutive seasons with averages of 15 points and 13.9 rebounds.

Minnesota has reached a deal to acquire star center Rudy Gobert from Utah for multiple players and multiple first-round draft picks.

Star guard Donovan Mitchell has been mentioned in numerous trade rumors, and reports of friction between Mitchell and Gobert have sprung up at various points during the last few seasons. The Timberwolves went 46-36 last season after missing the playoffs for three consecutive years. ESPN reported Utah will receive Malik Beasley, Patrick Beverley, Jarred Vanderbilt, Leandro Bolmaro and Walker Kessler, the No. 22 pick in last week's draft, in return.

The Utah Jazz have moved on from star big man Rudy Gobert, sending him to the Minnesota Timberwolves in a blockbuster deal on Friday in exchange for Malik ...

Pairing Gobert with Towns will undoubtedly make the franchise a contender in 2022-23 and beyond. Jazz lowkey won this trade they are getting a lot of value for Gobert who is good but they are also getting decent players and a haul of picks in return. I actually like this for Jazz. Vanderbilt Beverly Kessler all good defensive players in return + Beasley off bench, but 3 unprotected 1s 2023/25/27, swap in 26 and top5 protected 2029 1 is a ton for Gobert who struggles vs modern day small 3 ball NBA lineups. Dejounte was available for less and fits better That said, the Jazz were praised for their absolute haul of a return. For the wolves it doesn't make much sense to me why they would dump off all their picks and decent players for a bench center https://t.co/FwLhUtOoh8

Minnesota paid a steep price to acquire the All-Star center.

Well, the Jazz just received more unprotected picks for Gobert than the Bucks had to give up for Jrue Holiday. With most of its own picks in its coffers as well, Utah is in a good position to take a wrecking ball to its most recent iteration while rebuilding quickly over the next couple years. Gobert is an elite backstopper and rim protector, and he will go a long way in covering up the defensive flaws of Karl-Anthony Towns or Anthony Edwards, particularly during the regular season. Gobert was also a key ingredient to a Utah offense that was consistently near the top of the league, and this Minnesota team has even more perimeter scoring talent than those teams did—thanks in large part to Towns’s shooting ability. Even as someone who is not typically in line with some people’s adoration for draft capital, this is a stunning deal. This is a massive haul for Gobert, who while talented, is also polarizing and making a large sum of money for an extended period of time. It was a little bit like a horror movie seeing the details of this trade come across your phone screen.

Wojnarowski reported the Jazz will receive Patrick Beverley, Malik Beasley, Walker Kessler, Jarred Vanderbilt, Leandro Bolmaro and multiple first-round picks in ...

He should have ample opportunities as a pick-and-roll finisher in the Timberwolves offense. Utah made the playoffs in six straight seasons but failed to advance past the second round. His presence will also allow star big man Karl-Anthony Towns to play almost exclusively at the power forward position, giving him a chance to expand his already impressive offensive repertoire. He's been selected to the All-Defensive first team in each of the last five seasons. He averaged 15.6 points and led the NBA with a career-high 14.7 rebounds while shooting a career-best 71.3 percent from the field. He also added 2.1 blocks per game, which ranked fifth in the league.

According to ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski, the Timberwolves have acquired three-time Defensive Player of the Year Rudy Gobert in a blockbuster deal with the ...

Wojnarowski added that the Jazz will receive four first-round picks and a pick swap, as well as forward Leandro Balmaro in the deal. Gobert's fit in Minnesota is interesting, to say the least. The excitement continued on Friday when ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski reported a blockbuster trade between the Jazz and Timberwolves that will send three-time Defensive Player of the Year Rudy Gobert to Minnesota in return for a handful of players and massive draft capital.

Rudy Gobert has been traded by the Utah Jazz to the Minnesota Timberwolves for a massive package of players and draft picks, a person with knowledge of the ...

Indeed, it is a slew of assets for the Jazz, who made the playoffs in each of the last six seasons and now seem to be resetting in multiple ways. And now, Gobert leaves, officially ending his pairing with guard Donovan Mitchell in Utah — an on-court relationship that seemed really good at times, and strained at other moments. The Jazz have agreed to trade Rudy Gobert — a three-time defensive player of the year — to the Timberwolves for a massive package of players and draft picks, according to a person with knowledge of the blockbuster deal.

The Rudy Gobert era in Utah has officially ended. Adrian Wojarnowski reports the All-Star center was traded to the Minnesota Timberwolves.

His relationship with Mitchell seemed strained at times, though the players always downplayed talks of conflict. Selected with the No. 27 overall pick in the 2013 NBA Draft, Gobert became a full-time started during 2015-16 season. Gobert, 30, was long considered to be the one most likely to be traded over fellow All-Star Donovan Mitchell.

The Minnesota Timberwolves just acquired Rudy Gobert from the Utah Jazz, but did they give up too much? That's the important question.

They’re probably a darkhorse threat to make it all the way to the Finals should things go well. There are more questions about the Wolves than answers when it comes to this trade. Gobert to the Timberwolves shakes things up quite a bit in the Western Conference. The mid-2010s Brooklyn Nets are a cautionary tale for a reason. But if they wanted to just tear it down to the studs and build anew, they can do that, too. And the thing about it is there’s plenty more to come.

ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski is reporting Friday that the Minnesota Timberwolves have traded for Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert.

They are also swapping first-round picks with the Jazz in 2026. Wojnarowski says the Wolves are also giving the Jazz four future first-round picks, with Jon Krawczynski of The Athletic reporting those picks to be unprotected first rounders in 2023, 2025, 2027 and a top-five protected first rounder in 2029. "The Timberwolves are sending Malik Beasley, Patrick Beverley, Walker Kessler, Jarred Vanderbilt and multiple first-round picks for Gobert, sources tell ESPN," Wojnarowski said, adding that Minnesota is also giving Utah Leandro Bolmaro.

Twitter went into a frenzy after the Minnesota Timberwolves reportedly acquired Rudy Gobert in a blockbuster deal with the Utah Jazz.

Following the bombshell trade news, users once again started to roast Gobert and the Timberwolves: The Jazz will also be adding four (FOUR!) first-round draft picks: 2023, 2025, 2027 and 2029. The first three are unprotected and the 2029 selection is top-five protected.

The Timberwolves are thinking Twin Towers for the Twin Cities, Towns finds a way to stay AND move, plus more from a massive deal.

But will it be enough in a daunting Western Conference? The Warriors, Suns, Nuggets, Grizzlies, Clippers and maybe the Mavericks look as good or better than they were, at least on paper. Which is to say, this trade frees him up from the heavy lifting of defending and scoring in the paint. The proverbial three-legged stool of drafts, trades and free agency teeters mostly on two, with few players choosing the Wolves as a destination market. He’s a willing passer, too, and in Gobert now has a big target near the rim. Truth be told, they probably should have beaten the Grizzlies, if not for inexperience gumming up their finishes in close games. Taurean Prince re-upped when the free agency bell rang, and the Wolves picked up Memphis forward Kyle Anderson as a versatile helper. Of course, Quin Snyder exiting as head coach from a team he’d led to 108 games over .500 over the past six seasons was white smoke enough to indicate boss Danny Ainge’s thinking. Anthony Edwards, Minnesota’s exuberant, explosive wing, looms large in the franchise’s future for his raw athletic ability and repertoire of highlight-ready moves. This trade means they’ll be relying mostly on one for the foreseeable future. The pertinent number next season will be $72 million, with Gobert pulling down $38.2 million and Towns $33.8 million. Just the two of them. With the Stifle Tower reportedly being relocated from Salt Lake to the Twin Cities, here are five takeaways on the potential Rudy Gobert trade.

Gobert is a three-time Defensive Player of the Year.

Utah will likely find its way to a Mitchell trade eventually, and even if it doesn't happen at the peak of his value, it is going to net the Jazz a solid return. Eight? How badly do the Knicks want to bring him back home to New York? How much could the Jazz extract from a Miami team that came one win short of the Finals? Those six first-round picks the Jazz have added over the past few days could easily balloon to double digits with the right Mitchell deal, and perhaps more importantly, the Jazz could embrace a rebuild in earnest. The theoretical benefit of adding Gobert is that it takes a defense that was ranked 13th last season and gives it a Defensive Player of the Year candidate. The problem he encountered with the Jazz was that the perimeter defenders in front of him were so bad at containing dribble-penetration that he simply couldn't abandon the basket to defend a shooter in the corner. For now, the Jazz are stuck in that dreaded middle ground: too good to tank, too bad to contend. You never know what was or was not on the table to Minnesota before it made this trade, but it's worth asking if a similar path was available. When you give up several useful role players and four first-round picks (five if you include Kessler, whom the Jazz just took in the first round) to land a player, you do it for one of two reasons. If they could get four first-rounders for Gobert, they'd likely be able to fetch even more for the younger Mitchell, and moving him now would have the added benefit of positioning the Jazz to potentially land one of the top picks in the loaded 2023 NBA Draft. Headlining that class is another French center, Victor Wembanyama, who has been compared to Gobert defensively, but has a much more diverse game offensively. This trade probably isn't going to help the Timberwolves win a championship in the future. Gobert is a three-time NBA Defensive Player of the Year and is widely considered the league's best rim protector. The Jazz have been a consistent playoff team with Gobert and Donovan Mitchell, but after a first-round flameout against the Dallas Mavericks, it became clear that change was needed. The Utah Jazz are trading Rudy Gobert to the Minnesota Timberwolves in a six-player deal, according to Adrian Wojnarowski. Minnesota is sending Utah Malik Beasley, Patrick Beverley, Walker Kessler, Leandro Bolmaro, Jarred Vanderbilt and four first-round picks for the All-Star center.

Forever, the Wolves have been an afterthought or worse, a punchline. The Gobert trade may work. It may not. Now, they're too big to ignore.

The Wolves started trying to talk to the Jazz about Gobert the week of the draft, but Ainge is known for being a stickler in negotiations and was driving a hard bargain. They are not going to wait for another star that may be a more conventional fit for the roster to become available. They’re going to start big and they are going to stay big and see if the rest of the league can handle them. What the Timberwolves believe is that they weren’t going to out-small ball Golden State. They weren’t going to outrun Memphis or outsmart Phoenix. They weren’t going to out-recruit the Lakers for free agents. They targeted Gobert for weeks and got him without giving up McDaniels. They view it as a massive win, regardless of the price. Utah routinely posted elite defensive metrics in the regular season with Gobert leading the charge but wasn’t able to sustain that level in the playoffs against teams that could go small and move the ball. The rumblings about a shakeup in Utah had been prevalent all season long, and the Timberwolves were growing more and more open to the idea of moving Towns, who played center his first seven seasons, to power forward and finding a center who could take the rim-protecting pressure off of him. There they sat with a budding star in Anthony Edwards, a rejuvenated franchise player in Karl-Anthony Towns and a head coach in Chris Finch who has command of the room and the security of a long-term deal. But the overwhelming feeling internally was that if they didn’t make some significant maneuvers, a team that had squeezed every ounce of success possible out of its roster was destined to hit a wall in a conference that is only getting tougher and deeper. Lore and Rodriguez, the two friends who are scheduled to take over majority control of the Timberwolves at the end of 2023, have been aggressive since joining the organization. The Timberwolves’ biggest priority after the Memphis Grizzlies outlasted them in the first round of the playoffs on the strength of Ja Morant’s fourth-quarter drives to the basket and Brandon Clarke’s relentlessness on the offensive glass was to address rim protection and rebounding. Last season’s team was young and fun and exciting and the revival of Minnesota as a basketball market was rewarding.

And while the Jazz bring home a treasure chest of draft picks, this is just the first move in Utah — they say they are going to rebuild on the fly around ...

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Los de Minneapolis acordaron con Utah Jazz un traspaso que ha significado el desembarco de Rudy Gobert en los Wolves, y lo más importante, junto a Karl-Anthony Towns. Esta operación deja claro una vez más que la liga vive en un perpetuo y constante ...

Los dos elevaron a los Celtics a ser la mejor defensa de la NBA (106,2) y la segunda mejor pareja de toda la liga en ese sentido (99,9). Números que no cuentan toda la historia pero que sí que reflejan que puede haber más de un problema en este costado del campo para que Minnesota logre resultados satisfactorios desde el primer día. Los primeros días del mercado en la NBA han generado una circunstancia muy interesante por la que Minnesota Timberwolves ha dado un giro de 180 grados a su proyecto. El dominicano se encargó de todo lo que ocurriera alrededor del arco y del marcaje interior rival más importante, al mismo tiempo que Time Lord dirigía y comandaba las ayudas como un recurso de lujo. La NBA es una liga de imitadores en donde si a un equipo le funciona algo rompedor y novedoso tarda poco en ser replicado por otro conjunto. Así hasta llegar a un presente en el que tan solo una exclusiva lista de hombres grandes puede marcar la diferencia por su polivalencia o bien por sus características físicas.

The Jazz have agreed to trade Rudy Gobert a three-time defensive player of the year to the Timberwolves for a massive package of players and draft picks.

Danilo Gallinari, according to a person familiar with his decision, intends to sign a two-year deal with the Eastern Conference champion Boston Celtics – once his waiving by the San Antonio Spurs is completed. Indeed, it is a slew of assets for the Jazz, who made the playoffs in each of the last six seasons and now seem to be resetting in multiple ways. Gallinari was sent to San Antonio this week in a trade that brought All-Star guard Dejounte Murray to Atlanta. And now, Gobert leaves, officially ending his pairing with guard Donovan Mitchell in Utah an on-court relationship that seemed really good at times, and strained at other moments. The Jazz have agreed to trade Rudy Gobert a three-time defensive player of the year to the Timberwolves for a massive package of players and draft picks, according to a person with knowledge of the blockbuster deal. Utah will receive four first-round picks between 2023 and 2029, a first-round pick from this year’s draft in Walker Kessler, along with Patrick Beverley and Malik Beasley, according to the person who spoke to the Associated Press on Friday on condition of anonymity because the NBA had not approved the deal and neither team could announce it publicly.

The Timberwolves pulled off the blockbuster of the NBA offseason thus far, striking a deal with the Jazz to land All-Star center Rudy Gobert.

While Edwards comments are likely rooted in his confidence that he can compete with any player in the league, his remarks will probably take some explaining to his new teammate. Following a loss last December to the Jazz, in which Utah stifled Minnesota’s high octane offense, Edwards did his best to offer an explanation for his team’s lackluster performance. So like, I don’t get why we couldn’t finish on Rudy Gobert… he don’t put no fear in my heart.”

The blockbuster Rudy Gobert trade does not fit neatly into the "winners and losers" paradigm, but Gobert and the Timberwolves short term are winners.

A more likely scenario is this season plays out in Utah, and both Mitchell and Ainge come to an understanding, and then Mitchell is traded (smart money has him going to the Knicks). It’s simply too early to say if the Jazz won or lost this trade because we need to see what is next. It could be tough to keep Gobert and Towns on the court during key playoff minutes. Gobert will clean a lot of that up — he landed on a team that needed exactly what he brings to the table. Teams will put the Timberwolves in the same position, and with Towns playing the four things could be a little bit worse. This new setting — and covering up Edward’s youthful defensive errors — will better show off what a force Gobert is as a rim protector and defensive quarterback in the paint.