he New York Knicks will lose point guards Chris Duhon(notes) and Nate Robinson(notes) this summer to free agency and there are plenty of the team's fans that are happy about that. But it leaves the team with a major hole.
The word is that the team still covets Ricky Rubio(notes), the 19-year-old Spanish guard who stiffed the Minnesota Timberwolves last year by not coming to the States after the team drafted him sixth overall.
The New York Post is reporting that the Knicks would like to take a crack at bringing Rubio to the U.S. but it remains doubtful that the Wild will give up Rubio's rights. "(Timberwolves president) David (Kahn) has told me he wants to bring Ricky over for next season," Knicks president Donnie Walsh told The Post.
But a Knicks international scout lives in Barcelona, where Rubio is playing this year, and is friends with Rubio's folks, who supposedly would be so very proud if their son's rights got traded to the Knicks. This is the same scout who was responsible for the Knicks drafting Danilo Gallinari(notes), by the way.
