MINNEAPOLIS — This is a story that feels pre-written. There was, after all, a sense of inevitability in what took place at Target Center on Sunday night.
Ricky Rubio killed his old squad and the Utah Jazz stomped the shorthanded Wolves. In the most critical home game in what feels like an insufferable eternity, an old friend, Ricard of El Masnou, Spain, returned to his former city as the starting point guard of one of the hottest teams in the NBA; Utah is 25-5 in the last 30 games.
Rubio performed masterfully and exactly as expected given his relationship with the Wolves and the high stakes of this game as the season draws to a close in the ultra competitive Western Conference.