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‘I plan on winning a championship in Utah’: Rudy Gobert is ready to move forward


For days — heck, weeks — Rudy Gobert didn’t want to check his Twitter.

He posted sporadically on Instagram, but largely avoided the comments section. He dealt with illness as best as one could in being the first NBA athlete to test positive for COVID-19. He was well aware of the scarlet letter he carried with him as the NBA and the sports world shut down around him as news of his test result was revealed on March 11.

“It’s been a tough few months, both mentally and physically,” is how Gobert put it on a Zoom call with reporters last week. “When you have the whole world judging you and threatening you, it’s not easy as a human being. At the same time, people judge on perception they get and they don’t know you. At the end of the day, I can’t control perception. But I can control my actions, and that’s what really matters.”

As the NBA restart looms in three weeks, Gobert, an All-NBA…





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