RICKY RUBIO: IS HE THE NEXT BIG THING?

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By Vicson Aypa Mabanglo
IV - Sir Isaac Newton


When you walk on the streets of a typical city, you’ll eventually find yourself in a very incomparable scenario, noisy and polluted. Further observations will lead you to numerous basketball courts. Basketball courts which showcase and feature players in tattered shirts and flip-flops, non-regulation rims with nets that are often made up of metal chains, and plenty of loud yelling.

Basketball had been very popular all over the world. It has been the most common and most-loved sport by many nations. It has dominated the minds of the youth furthermore influenced them to a more healthy lifestyle without any vices.

Basketball is one of the events in the last Beijing Olympics 2008. In this event, the stars of the NBA led by Lebron James, the United States of America national team bagged the gold medals. Came third was the national team of Argentina. And came second was the defending champions Spain.

It had been a solid Olympics for the Americans for they didn’t lose any game. They made Spain worthless and downhearted. Spain really had a hard time and an agonizing ending losing their championship.

But behind this defeat was a beginning for one of the players of Spain. He was the key point guard, often as a starter, of the Spain national team. He was Ricky Rubio, a basketball prodigy at 17 years of age. He is the youngest player to ever join the Olympics basketball event. Playing at the age of 17 against player aging from 25 and above is hard. It needs determination and lots of courage.

This great point guard ,that I guess you’ve never heard of , lives in the streets of El Masnou, a seaside village 10 miles outside of Barcelona. He stands 6’3’’, weighs 180 lbs. and is only 17 years old. He was born on October 21, 1990.

Already Ricky Rubio has had a great beginning to his story. In 2005, as a 14-year old, Ricky Rubio was the youngest player ever to appear Spain's ACB league, which is regarded by most as Europe's finest national basketball league. And in 2006's Under 16 European Championships, Rubio recorded a quadruple-double in a game against Croatia with 19 points, 13 assists, 11 steals, 10 rebounds in 33 minutes (he actually achieved the quadruple-double in only 28 minutes of play) if that wasn't enough, Rubio put up a more amazing and unbelievable performance when he recorded 51 points, 24 rebounds, 12 assists, and 7 assists against Russia in the tourney's final, when Spain won 110-106.

He (just like implied in the first set of pargraphs) was selected to join the Spanish national team. They participated in the basketball event in Beijing Olympics 2008. They only placed silver but this might be the start of a new basketball star.

Ricky Rubio is actually scouted now by different NBA teams. By next year, at the age of 18, who knows, he might me on NBA showcasing his talents with the Americans and showing the whole world his talents. Who knows?