Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert (Mary Holt-USA TODAY Sports)
Utah Jazz All-Star Rudy Gobert is no stranger to standing out from a crowd.
No matter how incessantly Philadelphia 76ers defensive man Ben Simmons toots his own horn, when it comes to graphing each current NBA player’s defensive impact this season, the Utah Jazz’s two-time Defensive Player of the Year (2018, 2019) is quite simply on an island by himself.
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Just consult BBall Index.
As one can see in the site’s tweeted graph below, Rudy Gobert appears a bit lonely in the upper right corner, miles from the mainland where everyone else in the league — including self-hype man Ben Simmons — lies.