This Tuesday, September 20, 2022Rudy Gobert granted me a exceptional interview just under 48 hours after the Eurobasket final which ended with a silver medal for the Blues. Currently in Paris, the player of the France team and now of the Minnesota Timberwolves is full of motivation and is ready to start a new season. NBA.
A new medal with France
The course was magnificent with the France team. Passed between the drops against Turkey and Italy, Vincent Collet’s Blues corrected Poland in the semi-finals before losing to their best enemy, Spain, in the final.
Rudy Gobert scored the first point for the Olympic runners-up before Spain slipped past and were never seen again in the final. The triple best defender of the year in the NBA assures him, he is proud of the course and is already looking towards the next season with his new franchise : ”I feel pretty good after a great adventure with the France team which ended with a silver medal. I’m days away from joining Minnesota, I can’t wait to start this new season”.
Minnesota, the new challenge
Because yes, Rudy Gobert is no longer a Utah Jazz player with whom he shone for nine years, including four franchise records for rebounds.
If he confides that he has in a corner of his head the desire to see his number 27 retired (a classic for NBA stars who have marked a franchise and who see their jersey on the ceiling of the stadium of their hall) , Gobert especially wants to aim for the title with the Timberwoles : ”This is a super exciting new challenge. The goal is to win the title.
I will always keep Utah in my heart. Now I have a new band, a new organization, I can’t wait for this to start.
The Olympics in Paris
In two years the Paris Olympic Games will take place. An exceptional meeting for him and the Blues. Rudy Gobert will be 32 years old and, we wish him, perhaps, other NBA records in his pocket, even a title.
He says it frankly, it will be wonderful to experience this, but he also wants to perform in the NBA : ”My goal is clearly to be NBA champion and win gold medals with France. The Olympics will be in France in 2024, it only happens once in a lifetime. It’s a pretty crazy date. My goal is to mark the history of French basketball and the country. They are two different dreams, but I aim for both. The Paris Olympics are a bit more special, let’s say”.
And since the native of Saint-Quentin has a big heart, he also has a foundation, the Rudy’s Kids Foundation. As he puts it so well, he wants to make the world a better place and that goes through the children who represent the future.
Thanks Rudy!
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