{"id":14925,"date":"2023-12-15T15:52:55","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T12:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/14925\/wolves-rudy-gobert-says-he\/"},"modified":"2023-12-15T15:52:56","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T12:52:56","slug":"wolves-rudy-gobert-says-he","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/?p=14925","title":{"rendered":"Wolves&#8217; Rudy Gobert says he feels &#8217;empathy&#8217; for Warriors rival Draymond Green"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wolves&#8217; Rudy Gobert says he feels &#8217;empathy&#8217; for Warriors rival Draymond Green\u060c<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-meta\">\n<ul class=\"authors\">\n<li class=\"mugshot-shown\">\n<div class=\"author-img\"><\/div>\n<p>Tim MacMahon, ESPN editor<span class=\"timestamp \">December 15, 2023, 5:19 a.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"author-overlay\">Close<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Joined ESPNDallas.com in September 2009<\/li>\n<li>Covers the Dallas Cowboys and Dallas Mavericks<\/li>\n<li>Appears regularly on ESPN Dallas 103.3 FM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>DALLAS \u2014 Minnesota Timberwolves center Rudy Gobert feels &#8220;empathy&#8221; for rival Draymond Green following the Golden State Warriors forward&#39;s indefinite suspension.<\/p>\n<p>The NBA&#39;s statement announcing Green&#39;s suspension for punching Phoenix Suns center Jusuf Nurkic in the face cited his &#8220;repeated history of unsportsmanlike conduct.&#8221;  Green&#39;s previous suspension was a five-game ban for putting Gobert in a chokehold on Nov. 14, when Gobert grabbed Golden State guard Klay Thompson to try to break up an altercation with Minnesota forward Jaden McDaniels.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline editorial float-r\" data-behavior=\"article_related\">\n<h2 class=\"editorial-title\">Editor&#39;s Choice<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Wolves-Rudy-Gobert-says-he-feels-empathy-for-Warriors-rival.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/li>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/1702644775_371_Wolves-Rudy-Gobert-says-he-feels-empathy-for-Warriors-rival.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>1 Related<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Gobert had been the frequent target of Green&#39;s public insults over the years, but he expressed concern for Green&#39;s well-being Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have empathy for him,\u201d Gobert told ESPN after an eight-point, 12-rebound performance in the Timberwolves&#39; 119-101 <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/win\/\"   title=\"win\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">win<\/a> over the Dallas Mavericks.  &#8220;You see someone who&#39;s not doing well inside and they&#39;re hurting. You take away the game and all that, and you want someone to be doing well and being able to do what we do every night, to compete and be happy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gobert believes tough action from the league office was necessary because Green endangers the safety of other players.  However, Gobert said he couldn&#39;t comment on whether Green&#39;s indefinite suspension was fair due to uncertainty over the length.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#39;m not sure what that actually means, so it&#39;s hard to say,\u201d Gobert said.  &#8220;I mean, you don&#39;t want anyone to get seriously hurt. You need to fix this. That&#39;s all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wolves&#8217; Rudy Gobert says he feels &#8217;empathy&#8217; for Warriors rival Draymond Green\u060c Tim MacMahon, ESPN editorDecember 15, 2023, 5:19 a.m. Close Joined ESPNDallas.com in September 2009 Covers the Dallas Cowboys and Dallas Mavericks Appears regularly on ESPN Dallas 103.3 FM DALLAS \u2014 Minnesota Timberwolves center Rudy Gobert feels &#8220;empathy&#8221; for rival Draymond Green following the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14926,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2453,7720,4241,6514,179,1680,6513,1390,5007],"class_list":["post-14925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","tag-draymond","tag-empathy","tag-feels","tag-gobert","tag-green","tag-rival","tag-rudy","tag-warriors","tag-wolves"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14927,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14925\/revisions\/14927"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}