Minnesota Misses Out on Ricky Rubio
August 31, 2009 by Stephen Kersey
Filed under Basketball
The Minnesota Timberwolves received bad news on Monday when they officially lost the hope of Ricky Rubio coming to the NBA this season. In fact, Rubio won’t land in Minnesota until 2011 at the soonest.
The Timberwolves drafted Rubio as the fifth overall pick of the 2009 NBA Draft. Many NBA experts thought that Rubio would play in the leauge this coming season. Instead, his Spanish club DKV Joventut has traded him to another Spanish club — FC Barcelona.
The 18-year-old playmaker extraordinaire has been on the basketball scene for a while and is regarded as one of the most exciting players …read more




