Ever since the Wolves drafted Ricky Rubio in the summer of 2009, trade rumors have surrounded the precocious point guard from Spain.
Rubio was never supposed to play in Minnesota. He was never supposed to sign an extension after his rookie contract ended—though he did, leaving money on the table in the process because he wanted to “call Minnesota home for a long time."
"That's why I signed the contract,” he said, while his agent Dan Fegan was likely fuming in his failure to convince Rubio to wait until the summer to test free agency and likely look at bigger markets like Dallas and New York.