The first thing you hear when you click play on this video is people going HE’S COMING, HE’S COMING. Spanish basketball phenom Ricky Rubio rides down an escalator, and the people are all HE’S WEARING A BLAZER AND A SHIRT AND SHOES, AND HE’S WEARING A HAT AND HUMANS ARE NEAR HIM. Seconds later, people are wooing and hooting, and some guy says LOOK AT THE PAGEANTRY. The pageantry of someone wearing clothes and using an escalator to change floors and walking in an airport.
Such is the new life of Rubio, picked fifth overall in the 2009 NBA draft, as he replaces Kent Hrbek and F. Scott Fitzgerald in the (assumedly shared) consciousness of Minnesota. After walking through an airport (and this is not a joke), Fox Sports is writing about how his personality is a defibrillator to a franchise in need of life. Imagine the Minnesota Timberwolves as the Washington Nationals and Rubio as Stephen Strasburg, only Spanish and biting a basketball. Did anybody describe what Strasburg was wearing when he landed in the D.C. airport? Did he have two functioning arms?
I’m hoping Rubio turns out to be a huge deal, just so one of the biggest stars in the NBA will look and act like Chachi from “Happy Days”.
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I know VERY little about him, but on PTI last week I know that they said he was terrible. Like 0 points in 10 minutes of play in the Spanish playoffs or whatever bad. So why is this guy a big deal? Are the T-Wolves that bad of a franchise to draft this guy so high? I’m clueless.
@Juice – They drafted him two years ago, when he was 11 and flipping no look passes to Pau Gasol. His European play hasn’t been as dominating as expected, but there’s still a chance he’ll thrive in the faster game of the NBA. And yes, the Minnesota sports scene is in a terrible funk right now. They’ll take whatever hope they can get.
“ahhh, the beauty, the grace. What a moment for Minnesota”
No sir, what a moment for America. Finally, the good Ole U. S. of A. can look up to pimped out, over-hyped, 20 year old kid who lost his starting PG spot while playing against inferior competition in an inferior league. What a moment indeed.
I am fairly certain the person talking in that video was being sarcastic. However, it is a big deal for the Tpups because they have been so irrelevant recently no on talks about them in MN.
how dumb do you have to be to not know this is satire? Way to reinforce the stereotype bloggers are a bunch of clueless mouthbreathers.
@Chris – I keep getting insulted on this thing for the most random reasons. I didn’t think “not recognizing satire” was what would make me clueless. There’s no context to establish that it’s satire, it’s just a video of a guy talking as he’s filming things.