Rudy Gobert

You don’t rack up the defensive hardware that Rudy Gobert has without stepping up when the game is on the line. The Utah Jazz center, fresh off his third Defensive Player of the Year award, sprints out to the corner in the final seconds of a close ball game against the LA Clippers to not only contest but outright reject a Marcus Morris jump shot that could have sent Game 1 of the Western Conference Semifinals to overtime on June 8, 2021.