[Official] Krawczynski: Timberwolves to trade #17 for Ricky Rubio, #25, and #28

[jayjaysee]

I thought the team with Rubio and Gallo would be better than last years team (trading CP for Horford, Oubre, and Rubio while SGA and others improve)...

But without Rubio - this should be a full rebuild. Get bad enough to be really good when Houston and LA are giving you draft picks... Horford will stick around to be the mentor that Adams was supposed to be. Adams should be in a Clipper jersey by the end of weekend. Or a Maverick jersey. Or a Boston jersey in some unrealistic three team Gordon sign and trade..

[MoneyTalks41890]

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OKC got a MIN 2024 2nd in this deal too?

[mglviks1]

Wish we asked for Oubre.. Dropped the ball on this one...

Also Bey or Precious was still at 17.. Why did Rosas wait?

[Klomp]

Part of what makes the timing right is how things ended with the Suns. Rubio had built a strong relationship last year with coach Monty Williams, who like Saunders was the kind of open, communicative coach that Rubio appreciates. The Suns were the darlings of the Orlando bubble, going 8-0 and missing out on the playoffs by a whisker. Rubio was told in the offseason that he was part of the Suns’ plans moving forward as they built around Devin Booker and Deandre Ayton.

But he was on the treadmill at his gym on Nov. 16 when he saw a tweet come across his feed.

“It’s not the way you want to know, especially my agent was talking with the team and they said my name was off the table when all the rumors and all the stuff happened,” Rubio said. “You feel like everything that they have said to you all year and buying into a new project and a young team and they need you, blah, blah, blah. It seems like nothing’s true.”

Rubio said he had no hard feelings about the move itself. He did not blame the Suns for wanting Chris Paul, whom he called a Hall of Fame point guard. But the way he found out stung him, and in some ways may have helped pave his way back to Minnesota.

https://theathletic.com/2215354/2020/11/23/ricky-rubio-timberwolves-exclusive/

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