Ricky Rubio Go home returns. The great base of Masnou Go back to Youth Badalona. Although the agreement is not yet official, according to the journalist Xavi Ballesteros (Always very well informed of everything that happens around the Penya), both parties would already have agreed the conditions for Ricky Rubio to defend the greeninegro team from next season.
And, as noted by Ballesteros in media itself as 'L'Esportiu' o ‘Badalona Communication', Ricky's agreement with the Penya It closed last Friday at a meal with the sports director of Joventut, Jordi Martíand the team coach, Dani good.
Ricky Rubio's return to the courts, after a blank season (played his last official game on June 2, 2024, with 92-95 defeat against Real Madrid In the Palau Blaugrana in the third and decisive encounter of the Endesa League final), it will mean an important illusion injection for all the fans of the Penya, Basketball and Sports in general.
At 34, Catalan returns to Olympic of Badalonawhere he is considered a local idol.
The same sources already indicate, in addition, a date for this desired return: it will be the September 4in the Torner of Sant Julià de Vilatorta, against the Hiopos Lleida. Your official debut will be the September 18in the Catalan Lliga before the MoraBanc Andorra.
Ricky Rubio He returns to Joventut, the club of his life where he left in 2009, after debuting, on October 15, 2005, with so Only 14 years by the hand of Aíto García Reneses and win the Eurocup and the Copa del Rey in 2008.
Of the Rock went to Barçawhere it was until 2011 and achieved, among other titles, the 2010 Euroleague.
Chosen in No. 5 of the Draft of the NBA 2009, after leaving the Barca team, a long 12 -seasons in the best league in the world began, marked by a couple of serious knee injuries And going through up to four teams: Minnesota Timberwolves (2011-2017 y 2020-2021), Utah jazz (2017-2019), Phoenix Suns (2019-2020) y Cleveland Cavaliers (2021-2023).
After announcing in early August 2023, surprisingly, that left the NBA and basketball in general (He communicated it during a concentration of the Spanish team of preparation for the World Cup) for an indefinite time to take care of his mental health, on March 1, 2024 he returned to the tracks, again with the Barça shirt, in a match of Euroleague in the Palau Blaugrana between the Barca team and the Monaco.
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After signing a final seasonal section somewhat irregular (in the team line), that of Masnou did not renew with the Barca team And he took a time for reflection away from basketball.
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The interview he did a couple of weeks ago Jordi Évole in the program 'The Évole' Of the sixth only served to add more doubts about what his decision would be: “I would like to play basketball without everything else, but it is impossible … and without being Ricky Rubio. I am squeezing the maximum to see if I can really. The answer is clearer every day.”
Now, after more than a year without playing, it seems that The desired return of Ricky Rubioby the hand of 'his' Joventut Badalona, It is much closer.
