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Jazz Trading Rudy Gobert to Timberwolves, per Report

The three-time Defensive Player of the Year is on the move.
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Jazz Trading Rudy Gobert to Timberwolves, per Report
Jazz Trading Rudy Gobert to Timberwolves, per Report

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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 Jazz are sending Rudy Gobert to Minnesota, ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reports.

In return, Utah will receive Malik Beasley, Patrick Beverley, Jarred Vanderbilt, Leandro Bolmaro, 2022 draftee Walker Kessler and multiple first round picks, Wojnarowski says. Jon Krawczynski of The Athletic reports that the Jazz will received three unprotected first rounders (2023, ’25, ’27), a top five protected pick in ’29, and a pick swap in ’26.

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Gobert is entering his second year of a five-year, $205 million deal. 

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. He led the league in blocks in 2016–17, and rebounds in 2021–22.

He averaged 15.6 points, 14.7 rebounds and 2.1 blocks per game last season.

The move may mark two franchises heading in opposite directions. The Jazz fell in six games to the Mavericks in the first-round of the playoffs, after reaching the conference semifinals the year before. 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.

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DAN LYONS

Dan Lyons is a staff writer and editor at Sports Illustrated. He joined SI for his second stint in November 2024 after a season as senior college football writer at Athlon Sports and previous three-year run at SI as a writer and editor for the Breaking and Trending News team. When he’s not watching a game, you can find Dan at an indie concert venue or movie theater. Dan has a bachelor’s degree in writing and rhetoric from Syracuse.

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