'Everyone's definition of fatherhood is different,' explains T-wolves center Rudy Gobert on his choice to miss a playoff game.
Minnesota Timberwolves center Rudy Gobert has shouldered a lot of criticism this postseason. In the second round, the Defensive Player of the Year was regularly dragged through the mud for not being able to slow down three-time MVP Nikola Jokic. In the Western Conference finals, he was endlessly mocked for failing to adequately contest Luka Doncic's game-winning 3-pointer over him in Game 2.
'My recollection, I ain't miss no game,' he said, adding that his child was so small he fit into his hand and had tubes attached to him. '... Was I distraught? Absolutely. Got a job to do.' Gobert is hardly the first player to miss a playoff game because of family. Among the more famous examples was when Derek Fisher didn't attend Game 1 of the second round of the 2007 playoffs following his daughter's cancer diagnosis in her left retina.
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