This past Sunday, Ricky Rubio opened on a channel. It was in an interview with Jordi Évole, in a talk that transcended beyond basketball, and in which the player revealed some mental health problems that prevent him from returning to Basket.
“I would like to play basketball without everything else, but it is impossible. And without being Ricky Rubio. I want to play basketball, but I can't,” Rubio said, like other heartbreaking confessions lived during a time of depression that arrived when the Catalan base passed through one of its best sports moments.
Among them, one of his lowest moments at an emotional level in which he had no more strength to endure his situation. “Just a very difficult thought, and I don't want to magnify it, but one of the nights that I was at the hotel I said 'I don't want to continue'. Not only with basketball, but with life. I have a family, I have a child, but I felt like that for a second “, wakefulness.
Ricky's reflections
Surely it was the toughest confession of a Ricky who also said that “He doesn't feel satisfied with the career he has had,” what “Whenever I went on the track I thought I was going to lose,” Or that he had to ask his wife for help to make his bags and leave the concentration of Spain in 2023, at which time he separated his professional activity to take care of his mental health.
There was a fun moment almost at the end of the talk in which Rubio and Évole raised the titular that was going to appear in media collecting the talk between them. Ricky's was clear, concise and more than interesting: “Ricky Rubio gives you his experience”, The former Joventut and Barça player commented, and who makes a couple of summers left behind 12 years of experience in the NBA.
Ricky Rubio and Juancho Hernangómez were colleagues in the Timberwolves / EFE
Both after the interview and in later hours, the talk between Ricky and Évole has been the protagonist in a large majority of media, both sports and generalists. Among them, a 'brand' that on its cover cited Rubio's toughest statement during the conversation: “One night I thought: I don't want to continue with life”, The Madrid newspaper title on its first page of the paper edition this Monday.
Juancho Hernangómez's outrage
A decision that your partner and friend has liked anything Juancho Hernangome, who did not hesitate to criticize the cover through their social networks. “We are already … to sell what is a priority … as if there were no better headlines of the entire interview,” replied the current player of Panathinaikos, with which Ricky has shared several summers in the selection and costumes in the Minnesota Timberwolves.
Juancho will play this summer the Eurobasket with Spain. Meanwhile, Ricky Rubio did not reveal if he will return soon to professional basketball. Dani Miret, coach of the Joventut, was optimistic a few days ago in 'ESports BDN' that the player can return to the Penya 16 years after his march.
