This occasionally happens, and it’s priceless every time: A player on an NBA team rips an opponent … and then that opponent gets traded to that player’s team.
That has happened in the Rudy Gobert trade that broke on Friday afternoon, with the Utah Jazz trading the star center to the Minnesota Timberwolves for a bunch of players AND what amounted to five first-round picks.
WOW.
But here’s the thing: Back in 2021, Anthony Edwards ripped Gobert and said he wasn’t afraid of one of the NBA’s best interior defenders.
I’m sure it’ll smooth over just fine when they’re teammates. But everyone loved this:
