The Spanish base of the Minnesota Timberwolves Ricky Rubio He said that, after finishing the season with good feelings, he wants to know his role in the team to decide his future.
This was stated in the presentation of the project Community Team of the Ricky Rubio Foundation in El Masnou (Barcelona), his town, to which he returns with “a bit of a bittersweet taste for ending the season early” and not getting a place in the NBA playoffs.
“At the moment I have one more year of contract, we have finished with very good feelings, but I want to see what my role will be in the team to decide, to ask if there are other options or if I stay,” the player explained last night to the press.
blond, who described the season as “a roller coaster”, assured that the team is “very happy” with the rhythm of the end of the season, which they plan to maintain in the next year.
Despite finishing with good feelings, the Spanish point guard regretted that the pandemic and injuries especially marked the team in the first games.
“I had to quarantine because I was in contact with a positive, Juancho (Hernangómez), and in the middle of the season being locked up at home for ten days is very difficult, and we were unlucky that Karl-Anthony Towns and D’Angelo Russell They were injured for a long time and the victories did not come ”, he recalled.
According blond, “The irregularity of the pandemic has conditioned male and female players”, a situation that considered that it has also reached the Final Four of the Euroleague basketball.
“Barça has had a very good and regular season, but when you get to the Final Four it is very difficult, there are no favorites when you arrive and the irregularity of the pandemic does not help the favorites have an advantage, the four teams arrive with the option of win ”, he added.