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Position: C
Born: 07/20/93
Height: 7-0 / 2.13
Weight:255 lbs. / 115.7 kg.
Salary: $22,471,911
Born: 07/20/93
Height: 7-0 / 2.13
Weight:255 lbs. / 115.7 kg.
Salary: $22,471,911
Tony Jones: Billy Donovan said there hasn’t been a two game stretch where Steven Adams has been in foul troubles: “I’m not saying they aren’t fouls,” Donovan said. “I think there were calls that could’ve gone either way, or been left alone.”
Even with all the success they’ve achieved in the professional ranks with Adams making the NBA All-Rookie Second Team and Gobert leading the league in blocks in 2017 while making the All-NBA Second Team, those intense predraft workouts is where they gained mutual respect for each other. “Those were physical. Everything was physical so we’ve been playing against Steven Adams for a while,” Gobert said. “I think he’s got a lot better offensively as we all do, but he’s always been pretty athletic and pretty strong but he’s got more experience, he got a little floater, good post game so he did a good job.”
Even as their battling within this playoff intensity, there’s always appreciation for what the other man is doing for his team. “I actually quite liked him a lot. Went to lunch with Rudy,” Adams recalled at OKC’s shootaround on Wednesday. “He’s a good lad, mate. He’s a good lad. He’s a good dude.”
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Steven Adams seems a little difficult from a distance. At least, that was George’s impression. Before he played alongside Adams in Oklahoma City, George had the sense that Adams was a bit of an on-court pot-stirrer. “Going against him, I thought he was some cocky, arrogant dude who always just wanted to start trouble,” George said. “ I just thought he was one of those bigs that (at) every opportunity, he wanted a problem. And when I got here, it was the truth.”
That drew a big laugh from the media scrum at Thunder practice on Tuesday. “Nah, nah. He’s actually a great dude,” George said. “He’s actually an incredible teammate. He’s actually pretty funny. He does want those problems down there. That is actually true.”
