Elon Musk has multiplied his nods to the right, even to the American far right, since he bought Twitter, and one of these last tweets, with a rather technical meaning, has obviously escaped vigilance. of Rudy Gobertwho “liked” it, without thinking about the scope that this gesture could have.
By tweeting “My pronouns are Pursue / Fauci”, the wealthy businessman thus killed “two birds with one stone”, mocking the use of pronouns by transgender or non-binary people while attacking to Dr. Anthony Fauci, the famous American immunologist, chief public health adviser to eight successive American presidents, who has become the target of Donald Trump’s support for his management of the pandemic.
The “like” of Rudy Gobert did not go unnoticed in any case, and the French pivot therefore had to apologize.
“Regardless of the different opinions people have, my intention is never to direct any type of hate towards any group. I’ve always put love first, and people who know me know I can be a little goofy at times, but my intention always comes from a good feeling. Sorry if I hurt anyone’, he confided. “My intention was never to hurt anyone. I think Elon tweets things like that and sometimes you like a tweet, but you don’t understand the full meaning of it… I just think I need to learn a little bit more about the pronoun issue.”
Towns family hit hard
The French therefore hastened to withdraw his “like”, hammering that his intention was not to hurt anyone. Nevertheless, his “like” goes badly, especially since Rudy Gobert was the first NBA basketball player to be infected with Covid-19, and his new teammate at Wolves, Karl-Anthony Towns, was hit very hard by the virus, which took away several members of his family, including his mother.
“I love Carl. He’s my brother, and I know everything he went through with the Covid. I also went through a lot with the Covid, it’s the case for everyone. Again, I never meant to hurt anyone and Karl knows me. We got to know each other and I know everything he went through.”he added.
| Rudy Gobert | Percentage | Bounces | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Crew | GM | Minimum | Shots | 3 points | LF | Off | Def | Early | pd | party | Int | bp | CT | Points |
| 2013-14 | UTH | 45 | 10 | 48.6 | 0.0 | 49.2 | 1.1 | 2.3 | 3.4 | 0.2 | 1.3 | 0.2 | 0.7 | 0.9 | 2.3 |
| 2014-15 | UTH | 82 | 26 | 60.4 | 0.0 | 62.3 | 3.2 | 6.2 | 9.5 | 1.3 | 2.1 | 0.8 | 1.4 | 2.3 | 8.4 |
| 2015-16 | UTH | 61 | 32 | 55.9 | 0.0 | 56.9 | 3.4 | 7.5 | 11.0 | 1.5 | 2.7 | 0.7 | 1.9 | 2.2 | 9.1 |
| 2016-17 | UTH | 81 | 34 | 66.1 | 0.0 | 65.3 | 3.9 | 8.9 | 12.8 | 1.2 | 3.0 | 0.6 | 1.8 | 2.6 | 14.0 |
| 2017-18 | UTH | 56 | 32 | 62.2 | 0.0 | 68.2 | 3.0 | 7.8 | 10.7 | 1.4 | 2.7 | 0.8 | 1.9 | 2.3 | 13.5 |
| 2018-19 | UTH | 81 | 32 | 66.9 | 0.0 | 63.6 | 3.8 | 9.0 | 12.9 | 2.0 | 2.9 | 0.8 | 1.6 | 2.3 | 15.9 |
| 2019-20 | UTH | 68 | 34 | 69.3 | 0.0 | 63.0 | 3.4 | 10.1 | 13.5 | 1.5 | 3.2 | 0.8 | 1.9 | 2.0 | 15.1 |
| 2020-21 | UTH | 71 | 31 | 67.5 | 0.0 | 62.3 | 3.4 | 10.1 | 13.5 | 1.3 | 2.3 | 0.6 | 1.7 | 2.7 | 14.3 |
| 2021-22 | UTH | 66 | 32 | 71.3 | 0.0 | 69.0 | 3.7 | 11.0 | 14.7 | 1.1 | 2.7 | 0.7 | 1.8 | 2.1 | 15.6 |
| 2022-23 | MIN | 24 | 31 | 65.6 | 0.0 | 70.7 | 3.6 | 8.2 | 11.8 | 0.9 | 3.1 | 0.9 | 1.6 | 1.3 | 14.1 |
| Total | 635 | 30 | 65.3 | 0.0 | 64.1 | 3.3 | 8.3 | 11.7 | 1.3 | 2.6 | 0.7 | 1.7 | 2.2 | 12.5 | |
