Rising star Rudy Gobert helped the Utah Jazz beat Minnesota Timberwolves 104-84 on Monday, but all anyone cared about out of that game were his various encounters with rookie phenom Andrew Wiggins, who managed to posterize the center not once but twice.
Wiggins got the better of Gobert the first two times, and got him particularly bad on the second jam.
Challenge accepted. Andrew Wiggins puts Rudy Gobert on the poster with this vicious #SCtop10 DUNK! VIDEO: http://t.co/xSazSvvkAm — SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) March 31, 2015
Perhaps feeling a bit overzealous, Wiggins decided to go for a third dunk attempt on Gobert – the longest and most imposing center in the league. How did that turn out? We’ll let Gobert answer that question:
@SportsCenter if you want to talk about the dunk you have to talk about this. pic.twitter.com/3I3mZuZDfc — rudy gobert (@rudygobert27) March 31, 2015
In the end, Gobert got the last laugh with the emphatic rejection and more importantly, a convincing victory.
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