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Analyst tears into Rudy Gobert following Wolves' playoff exit originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here.
The Minnesota Timberwolves' season ended the worst way. They got beaten by 30 points in a winner-take-all Game 6, and when the cameras cut to the postgame fallout, Rudy Gobert's name was everywhere.
Shannon Sharpe, Hall of Fame tight end turned one of the sharpest voices in basketball media, didn't waste time on Nightcap. He went straight at Gobert, making a point about money and production that the numbers from this series make very hard to argue with.
The Wolves were eliminated by the San Antonio Spurs 139-109 in Game 6 of the Western Conference semifinals, with Gobert going scoreless on 0-of-4 shooting in just 22 minutes. In Games 5 and 6 combined, he totaled four points.
"We've seen this far too many times that Rudy Gobert becomes unplayable," Sharpe said on the Nightcap Show. "You cannot have a guy making 40, $50 million. I don't care the position that becomes unplayable."
"If I got a point guard, Joe, and I'm paying him 30, $40 million, but I can't have him on the court in the fourth quarter because he can't shoot I can't have Rudy on the court because not only is he a liability defensively, he's more of a liability offensively. He gives me nothing."
Gobert has four Defensive Player of the Year awards, which don't happen by accident.
He is set to make $36.5 million in 2026-27, and reports from Jon Krawczynski of The Athletic already suggest Minnesota could look to reshape around Anthony Edwards this offseason by moving the center.
The Wolves gave up five first-round picks plus multiple players to acquire Gobert in 2022, and they traded more picks than his total playoff points across Games 5 and 6 combined.
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