Los Angeles Lakers Guard Slams Unfair Hate Towards Rudy Gobert

Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert has drawn flak from a myriad of fans after he tested positive for the Coronavirus last week – an ill-omened incident that triggered the NBA to suspend its games indefinitely.

The reigning Defensive Player of the Year became a bigger target of criticism when a video exhibiting how he apparently undervalued the viral disease made the rounds in social media. As of posting, two other NBA players who had physical contact with the All-Star big man are confirmed to have contracted the virus, including Gobert’s teammate Donovan Mitchell.

But while the majority serve slurs towards the Stifle Tower, Los Angeles Lakers shooting guard Danny Green is singing a different tune as he came at the defense of the French big in what he perceives to be an undeserved criticism.

“I don’t think he should be blamed or bashed as much as he is,” said Green. “People are blaming him for a lot of things when obviously he was a little careless at times, but who’s to say that’s necessarily the reason why that’s happened?”

Green, while not discounting that Gobert should have acted with more precaution, made his point across by claiming that the virus penetrating the NBA was inevitable and asked the critics to just treat it as a “wake up call.”

“He probably should have been more careful, but it’s not all his fault. Mind you, you got to look at the positive of things. This was gonna happen regardless of whether it was gonna happen to him or somebody else. Somebody in the NBA was gonna catch the virus and give us a wakeup call. I don’t think he should be blamed or bashed as much as he is. I mean, it could happen to anybody,” the dead shot two-time NBA Champion added.

Meanwhile, Green called the league hiatus as “kind of like a bad movie or nightmare,” but said Adam Silver did the right move suspending the games immediately so as to avoid putting the rest of the NBA players’ health in further jeopardy.