Ricky Rubio Not Gone Yet – What Will Happen/What Should Happen
Today’s Smack dropped the “Out like Rubio”. Well, maybe not. The report that Ricky Rubio was officially headed back to Spain appears to be more of a rumor than a report. Team Rubio is insisting that no decision has been made.
Here are what seems to be Rubio’s options:
1. Continue to sue his Spanish team in hope of a lower buyout and sign with the Timberwolves now.
2. Drop the lawsuit and return to Spain to fulfill his contract.
3. Continue to negotiate a buyout in Europe and sign with a different Euroleague squad.
4. Force the Wolves to trade his rights (and continue negotiating the buyout).
5. Sit out one full year of basketball and re-enter the draft (yes that is a real option).
What do you think WILL happen and what do you think SHOULD happen?
July 3rd, 2009 at 10:36 am
Jay Jay says:
I choose option 2
July 3rd, 2009 at 10:41 am
Jordi says:
2 will happen, 4 should happen.
July 3rd, 2009 at 10:43 am
Hiccup says:
Option 5 is real??? Can anyone do that or just euros?
July 3rd, 2009 at 10:51 am
Scott says:
Dude should just sign with the Wolves and put all this mess behind him.
July 3rd, 2009 at 11:17 am
dk says:
Hes a fag so really cares. Hes far from an NBA pg…
On to a real PG. Im glad to see Cuban offering J Kidd a nice contract to keep him and attempt to make up for trading Devin. Karma should have
July 3rd, 2009 at 11:19 am
dk says:
him go to NY near his kids, but lol. Ill gues well see where his charachter is at. In that case Cuban would end up with nothing after the trade, thats hilarious. Cuban, your mother wears combat boots!
July 3rd, 2009 at 11:29 am
mk says:
Option 4 should happen. I don’t get why most ppl seem to be slamming Ricky, but not the Timberwolves. They are using their leverage to short circuit his career as much as he is sabotaging playing for them.
The moral of the story is that players would rather play in the best European teams or stay in Europe, rather than play for the Wolves and the Grizzlies. Hear that, Dave Stern?
Being in the NBA is not a privilege nor right. Its business on the other side too, so leave players alone when they jack with team presidents’ and Stern’s balls.
July 3rd, 2009 at 11:44 am
bone0315 says:
@ Hiccup
From everything I read, anyone can technically do that. It is contingent upon two things:
#1 – the team that drafts you has to offer you a contract
#2 – you cannot play in any FIBA sanctioned league between the day you were drafted and the next draft.
Not to mention the PR hit one would take by pulling a dickhead move like that.
People are acting like Rubio has all the power here. He really has none. He can come to the NBA and pay a ton to get out of his deal in Spain and play for Minnesota. Or he can go back to Spain and play. That’s really about it. I love the way Minnesoat is handling this.
July 3rd, 2009 at 11:44 am
StukinaCubicle says:
if he sits out do the wolves get a compensatory pick for next year, i’d take him next year to, screw this 18 year old punk over…this is a bad precedent.
July 3rd, 2009 at 11:48 am
dk says:
Thats why no one should have picked tge scrub. His agents probablly asking for way to much money. No one wants to give the kid that shit. So hes fucked – the buyout. Get handles n a haircut, punk.
July 3rd, 2009 at 11:49 am
dk says:
@8 No Minnesota owns his rights, no extra pick, never that, they picked, its over.
July 3rd, 2009 at 12:17 pm
rodnets says:
At least he grew a beard in the pic, he could endorse Gillette contract.
July 3rd, 2009 at 12:33 pm
MNTwolves says:
He will do Option #1 and should do Option #1 also.
July 3rd, 2009 at 12:47 pm
Xavier Garcia says:
He can negotiate his buyout and go to the NBA without having to sue his team, why isnt that an option?
Like I said yesterday, Joventut had made it public that there would be no negotiating as long as the lawsuit remained, which is why camp Rubio dropped it.
July 3rd, 2009 at 1:41 pm
sh!tfaced says:
…following the footsteps of ‘great’ point guards like steve francis and stephon marbury.
July 3rd, 2009 at 3:08 pm
the cynic says:
2. He really has no choice, his buyout is insane
July 3rd, 2009 at 3:12 pm
bone0315 says:
He can neogtiate a buyout with the team without a lawsuit against them if both parties agree.
July 3rd, 2009 at 3:39 pm
AB_40 says:
6 million dollars to play in minnesota? MINNESOTA out of the first round one time in 20 sum years minnesota. I know he wants to play in the nba and he’ll probably look amazing with spain this summer with a lot of analysts looking ignant. I can’t see him going back to DKV Joventut since him and management got problems he’ll probably sit on the bench a lot. the fans will boo him and getting booed by your own team in europe is something else.
I got it let him join the globetrotters:P they got a hispanic guy so they can get a real spanish guy as well. just one year ahhahahaha thwat would be something else
July 3rd, 2009 at 4:07 pm
Manny says:
Here’s an idea…. stop letting players with contract obligations elsewhere to enter the draft. Sterns baby (NBA) has gone to the crapper. The idea of letting little boys into the “mens” league has proven a bust for the game as a whole. We are in a cycle where the Lebron’s & Kobe’s have come up playing against older men on their way out or little boys like themselves, so yeah… they stand out. Think about it. And every year that goes by under this anal system we get closer to an all high school league.
July 3rd, 2009 at 4:39 pm
TomGfromCanada says:
send to toronto to back up jose
July 3rd, 2009 at 5:03 pm
POPPI GEE says:
Really tired of this Rubio kid. Please go to Spain so many can move on with the people that are going to stay and play.
To much media for this kid.
July 4th, 2009 at 2:17 am
Colton says:
hold a fucking press conference and stop playing the mind games … fuck, rubio … you can get national endorsements but not get you on camera saying what you will do. make up your mind … us sports geeks need some clarity.
July 4th, 2009 at 2:28 am
Mano says:
The difference in salary between the 2nd pick and 5th is not that great. He wouldn’t have come out if he didn’t think he could pull it off. Between endorsement money and salary, he’ll be OK. The sooner he starts his NBA career, the sooner he’ll get a max contract. Plus, if he goes back to Spain he’ll have 2 less years in his NBA career, potentially costing him tens of millions way down the road. This is a no brainer, IMO. He’ll play in the NBA this year. Jovenhut loses if he stays. They pay him a few hundred grand, instead of getting a few million in a buyout. It’s in their best interest to let him leave. The whole thing is media hype. Relax people. He will be here.
July 4th, 2009 at 2:51 am
Arno says:
So the NBA world is discovering globalization.
In Europe, this Rubio thing ain’t such a big deal since most good players contracts have an NBA buy out clause… that the NBA wouldn’t recognize, setting a 350000$ max ceiling for buy outs paid by the league’s teams. So people are used to those long negociations. Some guys finally cross the ocean, some hesitate for years (Splitter, Vasquez), some don’t (Bodiroga).
What’s new is that, clearly, the attraction of the NBA is not longer strong enough to persuade good players to play for bad teams. American players accept the system because they sense they have no choice and because it has always been this way. And, IMHO, the system is good to have a balanced championship. Euro players, who are used to a deregulated labor market where the rich and powerfull ball clubs get all the stars, don’t accept it so easily and there will be lots of Rubio cases in the next years.
So it seems that Stern will have to negociate something with the Euroleague. At last.
July 4th, 2009 at 3:16 am
Gumby says:
The most obvious choice is the one not listed and mentioned in an above post. Drop the lawsuit, negotiate a lower buyout and go to Minnesota.
July 4th, 2009 at 3:52 pm
Dean says:
Option 4 for sure.
July 4th, 2009 at 4:49 pm
Truesdell says:
It’s long time that the NBA had a presence in the nation’s leading market. Compensate Minny (Nate +) and let Rubio negotiate his own buyout (with the help of Nike, Reebok, Adidas, whomever).
July 5th, 2009 at 11:08 am
Dennis says:
Minnie is not a good fit for Rubio’s needs. Small market plus direct competition with Jonny Flynn equals near zero endorsements.
He just might be the next Adam Morrison but with a ridiculous buyout on his back.
July 16th, 2009 at 3:42 am
esham says:
If u get drafted to a nba team u should honer your agrement 2 play in minn or what ever team drafts u.
If rick r decides to go back 2 Spain or Greece or bum fuk Europe he does not belong in the nba…..
July 22nd, 2009 at 8:58 am
yo mama says:
he in it for the $$$$$$$$$4