Ricky Rubio cracks that smile, the one that makes fans swoon, and blinks his impossibly long eyelashes. He has been asked a question and doesn’t want to answer it outright. He wants you to read the tea leaves a bit.
Rubio arrived to Game 4 wearing a gray sweatshirt during Utah’s first-round playoff series against the Oklahoma City Thunder. Across the chest was the logo of the hit 1990s TV show “Friends.”
Was he sending a message? Did the sweater indicate anything beyond a wardrobe decision? Was it a message of timeliness in a series in which the team-centric Jazz faced a three-headed superstar team they eventually bested in six games?