Ricky Rubio

Ricky Rubio: Ricky Rubio coming to Minnesota anyway. The Spanish player has committed to joining the Timberwolves next season, ending a two-year negotiating with the team that had few stops and starts. Personal information about the agreement confirmed by The Associated Press Wednesday night that Rubio plays in the NBA next season. The person requested anonymity because Rubio is not the Timberwolves to make an official report, when he continued to play Regal FC Barcelona in the Euroleague playoffs. The Timberwolves drafted fifth overall Rubio two years ago, even if its buyout agreement with Spanish, which supplements the $ 6,000,000 Rubio has caused a huge buyout to remain abroad and not immediately enter the NBA, and said that the teenager does not want to play early in Minnesota. The uncertainty of the current work complicates the negotiations. However, Rubio has finally decided he was ready to come now. Timberwolves spokesman Mike Cristaldi said the team was declining comment. For now, we have nothing new to report," Cristaldi said. The news marks the success of a long and often twisted, daliance between the Timberwolves and Rubio. Wolves’ chairman David Kahn spent two years in a complex, delicate negotiation, not wanting to put too much pressure on young people still point out how the team looks forward to the slick-passing point guard for the United States. Kahn called Rubio "a virtuoso, and someone special" After drafting him in 2009. He and agent Dan Fegan became a contract to bring the NBA during the summer Rubio, but Rubio has withdrawn at the last moment decided that he did not want to pay the buyout that exceeded the $ 6,000,000 out of pocket. Ricky Rubio