NBA – Followed by almost 600,000 people on X, Rudy Gobert doesn’t tweet often. His speech Thursday, November 14 on the social network, however, had more weight than usual. The French basketball player, who plays in the NBA for the Minnesota Timberwolves, sent his encouragement to former vaccine skeptic lawyer Robert F. Kennedy Jr, future Minister of Health in the Trump administration.
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« Let’s go (allez) @RobertKennedyJr »simply wrote the pivot of 2.16 m.
“RFK Jr.”, 70, nephew of assassinated US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was nominated by President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday. A former respected environmental law lawyer, Robert F. Kennedy Jr is also known for spreading conspiracy theories, particularly on Covid-19 vaccines.
After his “joke” about Covid-19 in March 2020
The message from the French player, aged 32 and who has been playing in the North American professional basketball championship for a decade, led to numerous reactions, some referring Rudy Gobert to the controversy in which he had been involved in the early hours of Covid .
In March 2020, while playing for the Utah Jazz, the French had been the first NBA player to contract the diseaseleading to the interruption of the season. At the time, he was accused of negligence after receiving his joking hands microphones and recorders during a press conference held a few days before the announcement of his positive test.
On Monday, Rudy Gobert made fun of the epidemic of #coronavirus by touching all the microphones and tablets placed in front of him during a press conference.
This Thursday, the French pivot of the Utah Jazz tested positive for #Covid_19.
Bad timing…pic.twitter.com/Yk0gP0GV9V
— Antoine Llorca (@antoinellorca) March 12, 2020
Rudy Gobert had made his mea culpa. “People simply judge you on the perception they have and this perception sometimes depends on an image, a video or an interview, an action. They don’t know you. But the people around me really know me, they know who I am and that’s what matters.”he notably retorted.
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