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Utah Jazz and Deseret News to provide fans with special Rudy Gobert DPOY section

Utah Jazz PR

The Utah Jazz are kicking off Rudy Gobert’s 2019 Defensive Player of the Year campaign with the release of Gobert/Encore 2019. The decorative album is a fitting tribute to a modern star with throwback sensibilities, as Gobert tries to defend his title as the NBA’s defensive king. The Jazz creative team paid tribute to the Utah Jazz name through the recreation of a classic jazz album: John Coltrane’s “Prestige 7105.” The albums were pressed at United Record Pressing in Nashville, Tenn., the same company that pressed Bob Dylan's “Highway 61 Revisited,” Jay-Z's "The Black Album” and Miles Davis' "Kind of Blue.