Monday night’s bottom-feeder match between the Minnesota Timberwolves and Utah Jazz was totally worth watching for one reason: Andrew Wiggins. The T-Wolves’ Rookie of the Year candidate saved the meaningless late season game with a poster dunk party, throwing it down twice on Utah Jazz big man — and defensive monster — Rudy Gobert. He landed three in total, all of which you can see above.
Naturally, SportsCenter‘s highlight package featured a whole lot of Wiggins victimizing other people — especially Gobert. What SportsCenter didn’t show was Gobert getting the best of Wiggins on (potential) Poster #3, when the Frenchman finally got his Stifle Tower on to deny Wiggins at the rim. Here’s what that looked like.
The Jazz ultimately won the game, 104-84, so Gobert got the last laugh. However, he felt a little disrespected by the way ESPN portrayed the battle of young NBA stars.
@SportsCenter if you want to talk about the dunk you have to talk about this. pic.twitter.com/3I3mZuZDfc
— rudy gobert (@rudygobert27) March 31, 2015
Wiggins may have won this battle, but Utah won the war, winning the season series 3-1.
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