Ricky Rubio, a basketball prodigy. While peers his age were attending high school, he was already strutting his stuff in the Spanish ACB League. While at the age of 17, I was busy preparing for my SPM examinations, 17-year-old Ricky is busy trying to lead the Spanish basketball team to Beijing Olympics glory. While a triple-double is always considered a rare feat in basketball, Ricky made it all look easy; in FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship, he had two triple-doubles and one quadruple-double, including a 51 points, 24 rebounds, 12 assists and 7 steals in the final game that all but assured his team a victory.
"I think he's a freak of nature — being so young and being so skilled and also so cool all the time. You can see that he knows what he's doing. He's not playing out there with pros based only on his talents. He knows the game and he can only improve. I think he'll be a great player. It all depends on him, but I personally think he's going to be great."
- Pepe Sanchez, Unicaja Malaga
I will keep my eyes on you from now on kid. Come to NBA soon so I can get to see a lot more of your actions.
And so my love affairs with the Spanish continue; Ricky Rubio now joins the ranks of Fernando Torres, Pau Gasol, Rafael Nadal and Fernando Alonso as my sporting heroes.
6 comments:
He's a player who can create a masterpiece with his skills
We need people like him here. Well, not as in importing him over.. we need to encourage those with talents. There's probably hundred of Malaysians who are talented in all sort of things, they just need a chance and guidance.
At least that is what I think.
cepe gay!haha..sume mamat spanish ko minat
He's talented. Wow.
love affair. is yummy.
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