NBA: The creative maturity of Ricky Rubio | NBA 2019

The Spanish, after a superb World Cup, stands out in his ninth season in the NBA

Ricky Rubio has spent nine seasons in the NBA and has started 523 of the 544 games in which he has been available. He has scored more than 6,000 points, distributed more than 4,000 assists and stole more than 1,000 balls. It has been five times one of the 10 players who pass more to the basket has made in a season, and is on the way to the sixth, and only Chris Paul has avoided that he has led the classification of recoveries in several of the courses he has played. Has participated twice in the playoffs, performing a triple-double in a 2018 first-round tie against the Thunder, the first of a postseason Jazz player since John Stockton, and forgiving himself for injuring the Western semifinals of that year against the Rockets.

The Spanish has achieved seven triple-doubles and He has earned more than 70 million dollars between Minnesota, Utah and Phoenix, a team with which he has a contract until June 2022. The summary is more than acceptable for that 18-year-old boy who was chosen in number 5 of the 2009 draft ahead of Stephen Curry himself. The 1st of that generation was Blake Griffin and the third, James Harden. Almost nothing. Ricky did a lot of harm being so good so soon. The same ones that before that draft compared him to some of the best bases in history – the best comparison will be the best versions of Walt Frazier and Steve Nash, write the nbadraft.net portal – were the same ones that criticized him ahead of time. when I did not respond to expectations.

The knee injuries, the time and the loss of his mother have made Ricky Rubio not only the basketball player he is today, but also the person. A man on his way to the thirties for which the ball has become a complement and not a navel of his life. You learn from bad times knowing that there is no light if there is no darkness. That is the experience. We complain about what we have instead of accepting it and trying to improve it, he explained this summer at the China World Cup, chosen MVP.

A public character suspicious of his private life, who has been a father for the first time this week and that he did not want to show any image of his partner on social networks. A philosophy of life that has been shaping over the years and that has also resulted in its improvement in the basketball court, maintained in the NBA after its explosion in the World Championship. Ricky Rubio averages the best season of his career in points (13.2), assists (9.3) and losses (only 2.5), and the second in rebounds (4.7), surpassed only by LeBron James in passes to basket. He left Thursday before the Knicks (25 points, 13 assists, eight rebounds and four steals) and on Saturday, against Boston sum eight points, five rebounds, nine assists and a steal.

His arrival at the Phoenix Suns this summer hurt him for leaving Utah, where he found peace and playoffs for the first time after Minnesota, but Arizona has received him for what he already is: a veteran. Surrounded by young people, the franchise wanted him as cornerstone of a multi-year project, with stars like Devin Booker or DeAndre Ayton around and an experienced coach: Monty Williams. The season started well and it was encasquill with the suspension of 25 games to Ayton and some other physical problem of Ricky, but the Suns have recovered the pace and confidence and are already in the fight for the Playoffs: they are one of the seven teams that fight for eighth place and are supposed to go to more, especially for that culture that Ricky talks about so much: We may not be the most talented team, but we have hearts. And it's not about winning or losing, it's about building a culture. In Utah we do not branch egostas, ramos a team, and that's why I'm here We don't talk about talent, we talk about playing hard, he explained a few weeks ago. Father's Word