Ricky Rubio will not play again this season. His injury to his left knee (anterior cruciate ligament) will take him away from the slopes for months. A disgrace considering the level he was at at the moment, surely the best of his career. It has been two weeks since the unfortunate action that has left him in the dry dock and Ricky has broken his silence in an interview with La Vanguardia, in which to begin with, he rules out being emotionally depressed or anything like that:
“I am very well. I know that the recovery will be a roller coaster because I have lived this situation before, but I take it as a different challenge. We will have to accustom the body and mind to other routines but my motivation is incredible. The challenge has changed and I accept it with enthusiasm. “
In addition to confirming that you have already operated, you also know your withdrawal period. “It’s the first thing I asked the doctors,” he acknowledges. They will be 10 to 12 months.
“The lament lasted one day. I have been injured, what is he going to do? You have to put things in perspective. Let us remember that we are suffering from a pandemic. I think about it as if I had been given a year to grow as a person and as a player, to come out stronger. And it is not a cliché. When misfortune happens you can do two things: ask you why, waste time in regrets, or seek solutions and go down the new path “.
The last few seasons have not been easy for him, going through four teams in two years. In one of them, Oklahoma City Thunder, he barely stayed a day. The NBA’s transfer machinery has shown him its worst side, something that has affected him the most in the past, but which is now taken differently. Like when you’ve seen his name related to a possible trade between the Cavs and Pacers these days:
“It has its funny part. Yesterday I sent a message to my agent: ‘Aren’t the rumors going to leave me calm or injured or what?’ It is part of the business. In his day I took it worse, you feel bad because you like to give everything where you are and when you give so much and then you see, like in Phoenix or Minnesota, that they dispense with you without knowing it… I’ve gotten used to it: as February approaches, Ricky Rubio transfer rumors. It’s hard. It is a business. Fans like this type of market movement, playing a general manager, video game style. But behind there are people and families. It is also true that there are exceptions. Nowitzki, for example, the entire race in Dallas. “
Ricky is not afraid to talk about his future, starting with that of his son, whom he clearly puts above his career: “When school starts there will be no NBA worth it. I will have to go back. I don’t want to be making you dizzy from here to there “. The accounts, therefore, are clear. He does them himself: “I have 3, 4, 5 years left in the NBA …”. And ends: “… but I would very much like to come back and play in Spain”. Here are some names:
“I would very much like to return to Spain. Without a doubt it would be in Barcelona or Joventut but there is a long way to go. I admire Marc a lot. That thing about coming back and not caring where to play but in a project in which to believe in a city that loves you so much … Sometimes we joke and I tell him that one day I will play with him in Girona. That is not such a joke … “.
Finally, he also gets wet with the subject of vaccines and the rabid sports news about it, which inevitably leads to being asked about Australia and Djokovic. He makes his position clear on the matter:
“I’ll start by saying that I have been vaccinated and thus my position is already clear. Everyone is free not to do it but this is affecting globally. We have to trust in doing the right thing even if it scares us. Many people are dying. You have to take a step forward. I would like everyone to get vaccinated for this to end. Y that hope prevails over fake news. I trust the doctors. If they ask about basketball, I will answer. If they ask about vaccines, I’ll ask them “.
