This week, Ben Golliver and Rob Mahoney of Sports Illustrated have been releasing their rankings of the top 100 NBA players for the 2015-2016 season. In a sweet moment of recognition, not one or two, but THREE Utah Jazz players were ranked in the top 40. That’s right; Utah has a “Big Three.”
Coming in at No. 39 is Rudy Gobert. Here’s what Mahoney had to say about the French big man–
“According to a metric created by Nylon Calculus, no player saved more points at the rim in the regular season; Gobert was not only positioned well to contest a ton of opponent attempts but allowed a league-low 40.