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Utah Jazz players try to stay informed on social issues — and occasionally are outspoken

Even as he’s been sidelined by a knee injury, there are some arenas in which Rudy Gobert is ready as ever to throw his weight around.

When he saw a tweet Friday night by alt-right political commentator Tomi Lahren defending comments by President Donald Trump on “s---hole countries,“ he stepped in.

“Do you know what it means to have Dreams?” he wrote on Twitter. “To actually have to work for something? Does the fact that i left France to come chase my dream here makes France a s---hole? Or that just applies to African countries? Getting paid to divide people really looks like a s---ty job.