NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Ricky Rubio is lost to the Minnesota Timberwolves and won’t be coming to the NBA anytime soon. GM Kahn did not deliver Rubio and you have to wonder how that affects his job status.
Ricky Rubio agreed to a 6 year deal with Regal FC Barcelona and there is no NBA out clause until 2011. The TWolves can kiss him goodbye at least for now. Not sure the exact rules, but it appears Rubio will someday be a TWolve.
Rubio, 18, apparently won’t play for the T’wolves …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Now if you live in Minnesota and you have now gotten past the will Brett Favre play for my Vikings or not and you are long past the Do we really want an ex-Packer as our quarterback and now you are ready for the Ricky Rubio escapade.
You see, Ricky has some splainin to do. All you young non-Lucy fans will have to excuse the old time reference, maybe go ask your Mom what that means. Just why did he enter the draft if he did not …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
The Timberwolves have made a number of player moves this off season and will be a completely different team and hope to soon add a new coach. It will be a National Basketball Association team makeover and it won’t come without some hard feelings.
It seems that there was good reason for Kevin McHale, the old GM and Coach, to hit the road or none of this makeover would have happened.
Taylor told The Associated Press on Sunday that the financially motivated trades Kahn has made this summer that …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
What a tough choice for Ricky Rubio. He wants to go to the NBA right now. No waiting for Rubio. The NBA bargaining agreement prevents the Minnesota Timberwolves from contributing more than 500k to the buyout that Rubio will have to pay to leave his team in Spain.
This leaves Ricky with a huge bill to leave his team. 6.6 million bucks.
He could leave for another team in Europe and that team would not have any pay restrictions and could just pay the buyout. …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
It is the consensus of the experts that Blake Griffith will be the number one pick in the draft, because he has it all, size, speed, talent, and strength. After Blake, the draft in the NBA for 2009 will get a little dicier.
There’s no consensus. Some are pining for Spanish guard Ricky Rubio [above], who has a huge buyout from his Spanish team, Jovenut, to work out before he can come across the Atlantic . Others seek Connecticut’s 7-foot-3 junior center, Hasheem Thabeet, who has not yet …read more