Third Covid protocol for Rudy Gobert, who must forfeit.
Minnesota pivot Rudy Gobert has entered into anti-Covid protocol and will not play the NBA regular season game on Saturday against Houston, announced his franchise which placed him in the rank of unavailable players on his Twitter account.
The Frenchman was placed in solitary confinement, as part of the health protocol provided for by the North American basketball league.
This is the third time that Gobert has had to submit to it. Then a Jazz player, he was the first NBA player to contract the virus in March 2020, which led the body to suspend his championship for several months. And he had tested positive again in January of this year.
Transferred this summer to the Timberwolves, the triple best defender in the league turns, after nine games played this season, to 12.6 points, 13.9 rebounds (first in the ranking dedicated), 1.6 against and 0.6 interceptions of mean.
Minnesota, which tried a big blow, by associating it inside Karl-Anthony Towns, remains on three defeats in the championship and presents a negative balance of four victories against five losses.
