Some of my friends had big houses, some didn’t. Gobert said to the publication, “It’s for people who don’t have a lot of money.
When the driver finally stopped in front of a drab government housing project-six stories tall, a block of glass and concrete-the long leg of the town’s most famous son emerged from the vehicle. The black Mercedes van cruised through the streets of the sleepy town, over brick and stone, toward the outskirts where the highway cuts against golden fields and intersects with Rue Raoul Huguet. In a profile of Gobert for the NBA, fans were able to learn more about Gobert’s upbringing: Saint-Quentin is a small town in France in the Hauts-de-France region to the North. Gobert is originally from small town in France called Saint-Quentin. Gobert Is Originally From Saint-Quentin, a Small Town in FranceĪ post shared by Rudy Gobert on at 2:27pm PDT “She sacrificed a lot for me to be able to do the things I wanted to do, for us just to eat.”ģ. “For my mom, it wasn’t easy,” Gobert said. I never really focus on that.”Īccording to a profile of Gobert by the NBA, his mother Corinne was a hairdresser throughout his childhood, working as a single mom to raise her three children. But with the fact that my dad is black and my mom is white, of course, makes it normal for me. I was never offended by it.įor me, I was just a human being. It comes from the parents who don’t educate their kids that there are different colors of people. France, we have a lot of different ethnicities.
To the Undefeated, Gobert said of the experience of growing up as a mixed race kid in a small town in France. Gobert was raised by his mother, Corinne, in Saint-Quentin, France. A post shared by Rudy Gobert on at 12:16pm PST