Jazz Player Appearance

The Jr Jazz organization in our city held a special night for the Jr Jazz Players. The had a special appearance of one of the professional Basketball Jazz players come visit and show off some of his tricks. We got to meet Rudy Gobert #27! If I remember right he is so tall at 7ft 1in, has the biggest wing span in the NBA and is 3inches shy of touching the basketball rim standing flat on his feet.

Here he is being introduced to us.

The boys got to hang out with him on the floor and participate in some competitions with him. This one the boys had to decide if he was going to make certain shots and if you were wrong you had to do push-ups.  Rudy shot some long 3 pointers...I love Carter's face reaction!

Half court shots..

As you may of noticed that Carter is wearing a bright yellow Golden State Warriors NBA Jersey not a Jazz Jersey. Carter wanted to support his Warriors not the Jazz that night because the next night he and Matt were going to the Jazz and Warrior's game and wanted to stand out during Rudy's player appearance.  He certainly did because all the boys were in their Jazz jerseys and there is Carter in his Bright Yellow.  What a funny Kid!

Carter had to do some push-ups...

Then the boys had to decide if he was going to make a full court shot..hmmm..then Rudy tricked the boys and ran up the court and dunked the ball. There was cheering and screaming after the dunk!

Then all the kids started attacking him and we were sent back to our seats because that was one of the rules was that you couldn't touch the player.

Then it was Q & A time. We found out that he is from France and doesn't speak much English and likes food that I can't pronounce or spell.

Lastly, Rudy showed off more dunks.  It was a fun experience!  Ashlynn even enjoyed herself and said as we were driving home "that was fun!"

It is nice to see these players make visits off the court and share their experiences with us.