{"id":640274,"date":"2026-05-13T09:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T09:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/640274\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T09:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T09:02:08","slug":"nba-fans-mock-rudy-gobert-after-victor-wembanyamas-fake-leaves-him-confused","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/640274\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Fans Mock Rudy Gobert After Victor Wembanyama’s Fake Leaves Him Confused"},"content":{"rendered":"

Victor Wembanyama<\/a> had a point to prove in Game 5, and Rudy Gobert<\/a> ended up being the one who felt it most.<\/p>\n

Coming off his first career ejection in Game 4, the San Antonio Spurs<\/a> star came out locked in on Tuesday night and never let up. Wembanyama finished with 27 points, 17 rebounds and three blocks on 9-for-16 shooting as the Spurs dominated the Minnesota Timberwolves<\/a> 126-97 to take a 3-2 series lead in the second round.<\/p>\n

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The ejection in Minneapolis had come after a Flagrant 2 call in the second quarter, when Wembanyama caught Naz Reid<\/a> in the throat with an elbow during Minnesota’s 114-109 Game 4 win. Tuesday was a different story entirely.<\/p>\n

Wembanyama Leaves Gobert Searching for Answers<\/p>\n

The moment everyone is talking about came in the fourth quarter. Wembanyama caught the ball in the paint with Gobert draped on him, made a spin move, and faked the layup so convincingly that the four-time Defensive Player of the Year completely bit on it.<\/p>\n

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By the time Gobert realized the ball was gone, Wembanyama had already whipped a behind-the-back pass to Julian Champagnie<\/a> for the basket. Gobert was still searching for the ball in Wemby’s hands while the points were going up on the board. Even Dylan Harper<\/a>‘s reaction said everything about how good the play was.<\/p>\n

NBA<\/a> fans wasted no time making Gobert the subject of every timeline on social media.<\/p>\n

“\ud83d\ude02 Rumor has it Gobert is still looking for the ball,” one fan noted<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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“Legend has it Rudy Gobert is still standing there, spinning in circles \ud83e\udd23” another added<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“3rd-year Wemby toying with a 4-time DPOY,” another fan said<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Rudy Gobert lmfao where you looking at boy,” another poked fun<\/a> at Gobert.<\/p>\n

“Rudy Gobert playing patty cake out there,” one wrote <\/a>while another added <\/a>“Had Rudy Gobert twirlin’ n whirlin'”<\/p>\n

Naz Reid had said before the game that he wanted to face a fully healthy Spurs squad. Wembanyama made sure that wish came with consequences.<\/p>\n

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Beyond Wembanyama, San Antonio<\/a> got contributions across the board. De’Aaron Fox finished with 18 points and five assists. Keldon Johnson<\/a> came off the bench to score 21 points in just 22 minutes, the strongest playoff performance of his career. Stephon Castle<\/a> and Dylan Harper combined for 29 points as the Spurs spread the scoring around.<\/p>\n

Wembanyama poured in 16 of his points within the first seven minutes before sitting briefly. Minnesota got a run going in that stretch through Anthony Edwards<\/a> and Ayo Dosunmu<\/a>, who finished with 20 and 16 points respectively. But San Antonio held a 12-point halftime advantage even after missing their last eight shots before the break and never looked back from there.<\/p>\n

The Spurs head into Game 6 with a chance to close it out.<\/p>\n

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Related: Giannis Antetokounmpo Landing Spots: Top Trade Destinations for Former Finals MVP<\/a><\/p>\n

This story was originally published by Athlon Sports<\/a> on May 13, 2026, where it first appeared in the NBA<\/a> section. Add Athlon Sports as a Preferred Source by clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Victor Wembanyama had a point to prove in Game 5, and Rudy Gobert ended up being the one…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":640275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[31513,19804,171151,49952,164665,72267,11951,78366,355,92429,6999,2116,99,40552,32090],"class_list":["post-640274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-anthony-edwards","tag-ayo-dosunmu","tag-de39aaron-fox","tag-dylan-harper","tag-julian-champagnie","tag-keldon-johnson","tag-minnesota-timberwolves","tag-naz-reid","tag-nba","tag-rudy-gobert","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-spurs","tag-sports","tag-stephon-castle","tag-victor-wembanyama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}