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Ricky Rubio Biography

Thursday, 2 June 2011 by admin

Ricky Rubio (born October 21, 1990 in El Masnou, Catalonia, Spain) is a Spanish able basketball amateur with the Minnesota Timberwolves. Rubio became the youngest amateur anytime to comedy in the Spanish ACB League on October 15, 2005, at age 14. On June 25, 2009, he was drafted with the fifth aces in the aboriginal annular of the 2009 NBA Draft by the Minnesota Timberwolves, authoritative him the aboriginal amateur built-in in the 1990s to be drafted by the NBA. The Timberwolves had an acceding in assumption with his above Spanish team, DKV Joventut, to shop for out his contract, but Rubio backed out of the deal. On August 31, 2009, Joventut traded the rights to Rubio to FC Barcelona, and Rubio active a six-year arrangement with FC Barcelona the afterward day.

Rubio weighs 86 kg (190 lbs.), is 1.92m (6'3¾") in acme and has a 2.06m (6'9") wingspan. He is admired by some as the best European bouncer anticipation ever. Rubio has been compared by some to Pete Maravich. Says above NBA bouncer Pepe Sánchez, who at the time played at the point bouncer position for Liga ACB rivals Unicaja Málaga:

I anticipate he's a aberration of nature, actuality so adolescent and actuality so accomplished and additionally so air-conditioned all the time. You can see that he knows what he's doing. He's not arena out there with pros based alone on his talents. He knows the bold and he can alone improve. I anticipate he'll be a abundant player. It all depends on him, but I alone anticipate he's activity to be great.

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