Rudy Gobert knows what is coming. He knows that a fourth NBA Defensive Player of the Year award is almost assuredly his after being the best defensive player on the best defensive team all season long.
He also knows that will do nothing to quiet the legion of skeptics who are ready to pile on should he fail to break through in the playoffs.
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Gobert is one of the NBA’s great development stories, the gangly teen who has morphed into a chiseled All-Star. The former 27th pick who played in the D-League as a rookie before blossoming into a generational defender. But he remains one of the league’s biggest targets from
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