{"id":31581,"date":"2025-07-23T16:13:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T16:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/31581\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T16:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T16:13:08","slug":"timberwolves-fan-favorite-ricky-rubio-is-coming-out-of-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/31581\/","title":{"rendered":"Timberwolves&#8217; fan favorite Ricky Rubio is coming out of retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ricky Rubio isn&#8217;t retiring after all.<\/p>\n<p>The legendary Spanish point guard wrote a farewell message in June on social media.<\/p>\n<p>But now he has signed to continue his career in Spain with Joventut Badalona, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.penya.com\/ca\/club\/noticies\/281-2025-2026\/4933-ricky-rubio-torna-a-somriure\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:according to Penya.com;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">according to Penya.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Rubio hasn&#8217;t played in the NBA since January 2024. He finished that season in Spain playing for Barcelona, but he sat out this past season for mental health reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Rubio returns to the organization where he started his professional career in 2005 as a 15-year old.<\/p>\n<p>Rubio went from Baldona to Barcelona in 2009, then was the fifth overall pick that year by the Timberwolves.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nba\/los-angeles-lakers\/news\/chris-paul-spurns-lakers-free-agency-decision\/b32ba748c607b8f292264c60\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Chris Paul spurns the Lakers with free agency decision;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Chris Paul spurns the Lakers with free agency decision<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He spent a dozen seasons in the NBA for Minnesota, Utah, Phoenix and Cleveland.<\/p>\n<p>The flashy and brilliant passer averaged 7.4 assists per game in his NBA career while also putting in 10.8 points per contest and snatching 1.8 steals per game.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Rubio is 35 years old now, and he&#8217;s not done dishing dimes.<\/p>\n<p>MORE NBA NEWS:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ricky Rubio isn&#8217;t retiring after all. The legendary Spanish point guard wrote a farewell message in June on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[418,6420,852,26515,6306,6429,355,26516,26514,99,6427],"class_list":["post-31581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-barcelona","tag-chris-paul","tag-cleveland","tag-joventut-badalona","tag-lakers","tag-minnesota","tag-nba","tag-professional-career","tag-ricky-rubio","tag-sports","tag-timberwolves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}