Minnesota Timberwolves center Rudy Gobert, formerly of the Utah Jazz, talked about Victor Wembanyama on ESPN and posed for a photo with Wembanyama that went viral on Twitter
For a number of different reasons, one the NBA players presumptive No. 1 pick in next year’s draft, Victor Wembanyama, has been compared to is former Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert.
On Thursday afternoon, the stars aligned for Gobert to see Wembanyama, his fellow French countryman, in action against presumptive No. 2 pick Scoot Henderson in the second game of their much-hyped exhibition series this week near Las Vegas.
It just so happened that Gobert and his new team, the Minnesota Timberwolves, had an exhibition game of their own Thursday night in Las Vegas against the Los Angeles Lakers, so he and some of his teammates sat courtside to watch Wembanyama and Henderson.
During the third quarter of the game, Gobert was interviewed on the ESPN broadcast, and naturally much of the discussion was about the 18-year-old Wembanyama, whom Gobert knows well and shares an agent with (Bouna Ndiaye).
