{"id":230947,"date":"2009-06-28T04:34:52","date_gmt":"2009-06-28T04:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vip.local\/2009\/06\/28\/walters-rumor-on-rubio\/"},"modified":"2009-06-28T04:34:52","modified_gmt":"2009-06-28T04:34:52","slug":"walters-rumor-on-rubio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/walters-rumor-on-rubio\/","title":{"rendered":"Walters rumor on Rubio"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>From<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/walters\/ci_12705123\"> Charley Walters\/Pioneer Press:<\/a><\/div>\n<div><em>A little birdie said Ricky Rubio and his father were to fly to Minneapolis on Saturday to quietly meet with Timberwolves President David Kahn, who was to welcome the team&#8217;s top draft pick to Minnesota and chat about beginning his NBA future here.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Wolves don&#8217;t plan to exert any pressure on Rubio, the draft&#8217;s No. 5 overall pick, to sign with them. But they will do what they can to accommodate the flashy point guard from Spain without interfering with his current contract status&#8230;<br \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>Regardless, it&#8217;s expected to be about a month before his buyout issue can be resolved.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>By the way, the reason Rubio and his father were to sneak into Minneapolis on Saturday, and not on Friday when the Wolves&#8217; other top draft picks \u2014 Jonny Flynn and Wayne Ellington \u2014 were publicly introduced was that they didn&#8217;t want the attention with the contract issue unresolved. <\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Charley Walters\/Pioneer Press: A little birdie said Ricky Rubio and his father were to fly to Minneapolis on Saturday&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[605037453],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.2 (Yoast SEO v23.2) - 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