Friday, June 26th, 2009 at 1:05 pm  |  107 responses

Where’s Rubio?

The T-Wolves are holding a presser to showcase their draft picks today. There’s one noticeable absence, but their GM (Kahnnn!!!!!!!!!) says not to worry about it: “The Timberwolves will hold a 3 p.m. news conference today to introduce first-round draft choices Jonny Flynn of Syracuse and Wayne Ellington of North Carolina. No. 1 pick Ricky Rubio won’t be in attendance. Wolves president of basketball of operations David Kahn, through a team spokesman, cautioned not to read anything into that, but there are plenty of questions about whether Rubio will end up signing with and playing for Minnesota this season or return to his Spanish team.”

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  • http://dsfkl.com Jukai

    LexaB: So Rubio has no thought power of his own and just let his agent do all the work? Then he’s naive. I’ll believe all those reports (which I have not seen, even on BallInEurope) if he fires Fegan. If he keeps Fegan, then he clearly wasn’t that upset with his agents actions, was he?
    Once again, Sacremento claimed he was cryptic, unresponsive and refused a lot of workouts. Why would they lie? An easy way out on not risking Rubio when they picked EVANS?
    The spanish media has plenty reason to place more blame on his agent than Rubio.

  • http://www.sportweek.fr LexaB

    @Jukai
    I can see your points and accept them. But clearly you dont understand the influence and power of agents in Europe. I mean come on we had our share of great young soccer players that went in teams they really shouldnt have gone to just because their agent told them. Mourad Meghni, called the next Zidane in France 10 years ago, can tell you everything about that. Yes Rubio is naive and young. Yes he may have done bad things in Sacramento. But dont underestimate what european agents can do to those players once they’re in their pocket. I dont say Rubio is an angel and everything he does is great. My only point was dont hate on a kid simply because he made a choice or was a little bit forced to make it. I know you like his skills, and you’re right about it, so before hating on him just please let him do his thing and we’ll judge him in a few years or months. What I really dont understand is why people around here are hating on him when the real man to blam for thise is the T-Wolves’ GM. You know like me that everything would be different is David Stern didnt have to say : “

  • http://www.sportweek.fr LexaB

    @Jukai
    Sorry. I pressed the “submit comment” before I was done.
    Yes. Everything would be different if Stern didnt have to say :”And with the 6th pick, the T-Wolves select Flynn”. Seriously, do you thing that was a sign of great confidence towards Ricky ? I think what Rubio and his crew are really saying (between a lot of bad things, I’ll admit it to you)is “OK, you like me but you dont really have confidence on me being able to run the PG in an NBA team, no problem, I can stay in sunny Spain and like my life as a baller.” NBA is his dream yes. Not his only dream.
    Oh and to end on the agent’s issue. Rubio will keep Dan Fegan cause he’s not upset thats sure. And when I talked about the influence of those european agents I wasnt talking about Fegan only. Rubio and his crew have a lot of people around them according to some spanish media.

  • http://dsfkl.com Jukai

    LexaB: You fail, good sir. Dan Fegan is an AMERICAN agent, who also represents Kobe Bryant. He’s not a European agent. You need to be more research before you respond on something like this.
    And once again, people are hating on him because if it wasn’t for Rubio’s decisions (AND his agent, but it is still Rubio for following through on them), Rubio would have gone fourth.. third… he may have even gone second in the draft! Instead, he put himself in the position to GET picked fifth, and be screwed by a newbie GM picking for a bad franchise.
    So yes, the situation sucks, and if Rubio had played all his cards right, I’d feel REALLLLY bad for the kid. But Rubio didn’t. You cannot feel bad for Rubio.
    As I said, if he fires his agent, I’ll change my tune. Until then, I will keep repeating: he made his bed, sleep in it

  • http://www.sportweek.fr LexaB

    @Jukai
    My bad about Fegan, he is american. Sorry for that inexcusable error that make my first comment irrelevant. But thats what I said on my second response : according to spanish media, Fegan is not the only one who helps Rubio with his decisions. And I maintain everything I said about those european agents. Once again, ask a lot of good young soccer players what they think about those people. But that was my bad, I admit it without a problem (I can accept other people ideas without thinking I’m the only one who’s right, I dont think thats the case for everyone around here, and I dont talk about you on that one). And everything you tell me after that is right. But I still dont understand. Why hating on a kid for his decisions or the ones from his crew??? Like you said, those are his decisions, he made his bed and he’ll sleep in it. But why the hate??? What did that kid do to commenters on Slamlonline, really??? Nothing. At all. Thats his life, his career, his choices. did you see him cry since the Draft??? Did you see him fall into depression because everything falls appart???? If you did, give me the link. Cause in Marca, one of the biggest Spain’s sports daily newspapers, he seemed to be OK with his situation. I can accept you telling me he was no the smartest kid on the face of earth for the last two months. But please, explain to me : why the hate??? did that kid insult NBA fans??? did he murder LeBron James??? Did he spit on David Stern (at least maybe people would have loved him for that…)??? did he tell people they were not worth his skills??? No. No. No. And no. Why the hate??? You’re right, we cannot feel bad for him. Does it mean we need to claim he is a b*tch??? He and his crew made decisions. Ricky will assume them like he did for all his professionnal career. That may be the difference between Rubio and a normal draft pick. A normal draft pick just dreams of any NBA team that can give him a contract. Ricky thinks as the professionnal he’s been for years : wanting to leave only for a better situation. And I repeat : I dont think the T-Wolves with Flynn are a better spot for him than a starting-PG spot in Real Madrid’s roster. Even if I recognize he could have been in a different situation if he had played his cards better. Yep. Thats a tricky situation. I can admit his errors, they’re clear, but for one last time : why the hate??? why???

  • http://www.bebo.com/SupahhHuman B-Moore

    Kobe Bryant got to pick which team he played for.

  • http://www.bebo.com/SupahhHuman B-Moore

    Oh this dude is Kobes Agent??

    Was he the agent Kobe had when he was refusing to play for teams in his draft year?

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