{"id":230970,"date":"2009-07-05T19:03:32","date_gmt":"2009-07-05T19:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vip.local\/2009\/07\/05\/wolves-updates-75-part-2\/"},"modified":"2009-07-05T19:03:32","modified_gmt":"2009-07-05T19:03:32","slug":"wolves-updates-75-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/wolves-updates-75-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Wolves Updates 7\/5 Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>From <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/sports\/basketball\/celtics\/articles\/2009\/07\/05\/summer_jobs_for_bench_riders\/?page=3\">Frank Dell&#8217;Apa\/Boston Globe: <\/a><\/div>\n<div><em>Guard Ricky Rubio is leaving DKV Joventut in Badalona, Spain, but he might not be coming to the NBA. Real Madrid director general Jorge Valdano is considering making an offer to Joventut, which is experiencing economic problems and needs more than the $500,000 NBA teams are willing to pay for a buyout of Rubio\u2019s contract. European clubs have no such spending limits or salary caps.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Rubio\u2019s buyout increased from 4.75 million euros to 5.75 million euros last week &#8211; small change for Real Madrid president Florentino Perez, who in recent days has spent nearly 200 million euros on soccer players Cristiano Ronaldo (80 million), Kak\u00e1 (66 million), Karim Benzema (31 million) and others, and is considering Bayern Munich\u2019s request of 100 million euros for French midfielder Franck Ribery. But revenue streams for soccer are far greater than basketball at Real Madrid; after Kaka\u2019s signing was announced, the club added 75 million euros worth of sponsorship, covering the cost of the transfer and his first season\u2019s salary. Real Madrid cannot similarly justify shelling out Rubio\u2019s price. But Unicaja (Malaga, Spain) and Greek and Turkish clubs might.<\/em><br \/><em><br \/>\u201cThe buyout clause makes going to the NBA unfeasible,\u2019\u2019 Rubio\u2019s father, Esteve, said in a Madrid radio interview last week.<\/em><br \/><em><br \/>Though basketball is almost an afterthought at Real Madrid, the club indicated a commitment to the sport by hiring Italian Ettore Messina as coach.<\/em><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>From <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/sports\/basketball\/celtics\/view.bg?articleid=1183044&amp;format=&amp;page=2&amp;listingType=celt#articleFull\">Mark Murphy\/Boston Herald: <\/a><\/div>\n<div><em>Tom Thibodeau is expected to join the team once summer league games begin tomorrow, although the Celtics [team stats] associate coach remains unsigned.<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em><br \/><\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>Ainge said Thibodeau talked to representatives from Detroit and Minnesota about head coaching openings on both teams, though he has not officially interviewed with either team.<\/em><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><em>Ainge has delayed signing Thibodeau to a new contract while both positions remain open. Celtics coach Doc Rivers has called Minnesota on his valued assistant\u2019s behalf.<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Frank Dell&#8217;Apa\/Boston Globe: Guard Ricky Rubio is leaving DKV Joventut in Badalona, Spain, but he might not be coming&#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) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Wolves Updates 7\/5 Part 2 - The Sports Daily<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/wolves-updates-75-part-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Wolves Updates 7\/5 Part 2\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/wolves-updates-75-part-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Sports Daily\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2009-07-05T19:03:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Alan Draper\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@sportsdailytsd\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@sportsdailytsd\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Alan Draper\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/wolves-updates-75-part-2\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/wolves-updates-75-part-2\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Alan Draper\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/#\/schema\/person\/2c8aadde2571800d0de74323730df7b5\"},\"headline\":\"Wolves Updates 7\/5 Part 2\",\"datePublished\":\"2009-07-05T19:03:32+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2009-07-05T19:03:32+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/wolves-updates-75-part-2\/\"},\"wordCount\":317,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"TWolves Blog\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"copyrightYear\":\"2009\",\"copyrightHolder\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/#organization\"}},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/wolves-updates-75-part-2\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/wolves-updates-75-part-2\/\",\"name\":\"Wolves Updates 7\/5 Part 2 - 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