{"id":534473,"date":"2026-01-13T19:36:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T19:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/534473\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T19:36:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T19:36:13","slug":"why-is-rudy-gobert-suspended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/534473\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is Rudy Gobert suspended?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Timberwolves center <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rudy_Gobert\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Rudy Gobert<\/a> missed Tuesday\u2019s game in Milwaukee due to league suspension after accruing his sixth flagrant foul in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/recap\/_\/gameId\/401810407\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Sunday\u2019s win over San Antonio<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And there\u2019s little relief for the big man the rest of the way, with half the regular season still to play.<\/p>\n<p>If Gobert\u2019s next flagrant foul is also a Penalty 1, as was the case against the Spurs, it will result in another one-game suspension. If it\u2019s a Penalty 2, which also results in automatic ejection, Gobert will be suspended for two games.<\/p>\n<p>Any subsequent flagrant fouls beyond that will equal automatic two-game suspensions, regardless of their degree.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday\u2019s suspension cost Gobert $201,149, per <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BobbyMarks42\/status\/2010805578956992753?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">ESPN\u2019s Bobby Marks<\/a>, while the Wolves receive a \u201ctax variance credit\u201d of $100,575. Presumably, the same math will hold true for any other games Gobert loses to suspension the rest of the way.<\/p>\n<p>The flagrant foul-point counter does reset for the postseason, meaning the only way the center \u2014 who\u2019s in the running to win a fifth Defensive Player of the Year award \u2014 would miss a playoff game due to a regular season flagrant foul was if it was to occur in the 81st or 82nd games of the season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI try to not think about it. Some of the rules make it hard,\u201d Gobert said of the predicament. \u201cIt\u2019s tough, because I try to be aggressive contesting shots in the heat of the moment. I don\u2019t think there\u2019s, at any time, an intention of getting anybody hurt, putting people in dangerous situations. So yeah, it\u2019s tough. But I\u2019ve got to play through it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Timberwolves center Rudy Gobert missed Tuesday\u2019s game in Milwaukee due to league suspension after accruing his sixth flagrant&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3782],"tags":[7,307,152,3954,6,373,66,308],"class_list":{"0":"post-534473","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-minnesota-timberwolves","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-minnesota","10":"tag-minnesota-timberwolves","11":"tag-minnesotatimberwolves","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-rudy-gobert","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-timberwolves"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115889477113712809","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}