{"id":433019,"date":"2023-04-10T16:29:46","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T20:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=433019"},"modified":"2023-04-10T16:29:46","modified_gmt":"2023-04-10T20:29:46","slug":"timberwolves-suspend-gobert-for-abusive-language-towards-teammate","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/timberwolves-suspend-gobert-for-abusive-language-towards-teammate\/","title":{"rendered":"Timberwolves suspend Gobert for abusive language towards teammate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Minnesota Timberwolves\u00a0have suspended Rudy Gobert for his heated argument on the bench with his own teammate Kyle Anderson during their last game of the season on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>That means the 30-year old will miss the play-in game against Los Angeles Lakers.<\/p>\n<p>He was heard shouting censored words towards Anderson and was immediately sent to the locker room. However the argument didn&#8217;t stop there as the two could be heard exchanging heated words at the halftime interval.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Rudy Gobert a hoe and he started Covid. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wPqWNE9ksF\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/wPqWNE9ksF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Big \ud83d\udc30 (@FreddieGibbs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FreddieGibbs\/status\/1645168659575504896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 9, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Minnesota reacted properly and sent Gobert away. The next day, on Monday he apologized for his behaviour on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEmotions got the best of me today. I should not have reacted the way I did regardless of what was said. I wanna apologize to the fans, the organisation (sic), and particularly to Kyle, who is someone that I truly love and respect as a teammate,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota will take on the Lakers in the start of the play-in tournament and if they are victorious they will face the second-seeded Grizzlies in the first round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minnesota Timberwolves\u00a0have suspended Rudy Gobert for his heated argument on the bench with his own teammate Kyle Anderson during their last game [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":433020,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17073,17159,18724],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"The 30-year old embroiled in an argument with his teammate in Sunday's game","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/433019"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/433019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433019"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=433019"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=433019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}