After a tough loss on the road last week, Rudy Gobert emerged from the locker room and smiled.
A dozen or so children from a northwest Milwaukee neighborhood were waiting for the chance to meet the Utah Jazz star, who had just made a financial donation to improve their community center.
“It means everything,” Gobert said of the meeting. “Sometimes when you lose a game, you win a game, you get stuck in the bubble. But doing that, it helps me have an impact on the younger generations, and it also helps me realize there are things bigger than basketball.