As part of the In Season Tournament, The San Antonio Spurs host the Minnesota Timberwolves tonight at 2 a.m. A special meeting for French NBA fans since it is the first clash between Victor Wembanyama and Rudy Gobert.
For Americans, there are three Eiffel Towers in the world, Victor Wembanyama, Rudy Gobert and the one in Las Vegas. However, two of them will face each other for the first time in their respective careers this evening in the NBA and, spoiler, Las Vegas does not yet have a franchise in the Big League.
Victor Wembanyama and Rudy Gobert have a history that has linked them for a long time. In his documentary Un1que, broadcast on Canal +, the Spurs rookie says that the three-time defender of the year sent him clothes for a long time because it was complicated for him to find ones in his size. It was also during a YouTube video in which the two giants faced off one-on-one that many people discovered the Nanterre nugget.
2m24 against 2m16, 2m43 wingspan against 2m35, the duel between Victor Wembanyama and Rudy Gobert is a big one. And if, since the restart, the spotlight has been focused more on the younger of the two men and the latter has already beaten the career high from his elder in scoring (38 against 35), the Timberwolves pivot is excellent at the start of the season.
The Saint-Quentin native is averaging 12.7 points, 13.6 rebounds and 2.1 blocks in his first seven games while being first in the League in many defensive statistics. He is one of the great architects of Minnesota’s very good start to the season. The Wolves are third in the Western Conference and notably distinguished themselves by dominating the Nuggets and the Celtics. They also have the best defensive rating of the League while their evening opponents, the Spurs, have the worst.
For his part, Victor Wembanyama comes out of two slightly more complicated matches and a very average performance for his first at Madison Square Garden. He will be keen to get the best of one of his mentors in order to bring San Antonio their fourth victory of the season.
This meeting is the first for the two teams in the NBA In-Season Tournament and the winner will go up against the Warriors, current first in West Group C (Warriors, Thunder, Kings, Timberwolves and Spurs).
Ah, and if the presence of the two French people is not enough to make you want to watch the match, we must inform you that there will also be Anthony Edwards, Karl-Anthony Towns, Devin Vassell and Keldon Johnson on the floor (colorful) from the Frost Bank Center, tonight at 2am!
Source texte : Basketball Reference
2023-11-10 10:18:00
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