{"id":25228,"date":"2014-10-31T22:41:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T22:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/timberwolves-hand-rubio-4-year-extension\/"},"modified":"2014-10-31T22:41:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-31T22:41:00","slug":"timberwolves-hand-rubio-4-year-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/timberwolves-hand-rubio-4-year-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Timberwolves hand Rubio 4-year extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minneapolis, MN (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Minnesota Timberwolves and guard Ricky Rubio have agreed to terms on a four-year contract extension, the team announced on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Rubio and the Timberwolves settled on a $56 million contract, which includes $1 million in incentives, just hours prior to the midnight deadline, according to the Star Tribune.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old has become the leader of the Timberwolves since Kevin Love was traded to Cleveland in the offseason.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are excited to sign Ricky to a contract extension and keep him as a foundation for years to come,&#8221; said Timberwolves head coach Flip Saunders. &#8220;Ricky is only in his fourth season and because of his work ethic and determination, we are confident that he will continue to grow as a player and a team leader.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rubio started all 82 games last season and averaged 9.5 points and 8.6 assists.<\/p>\n<p>The dynamic Spaniard had a sensational rookie season cut short after suffering a torn ACL in March of 2012. He finished with averages of 10.6 points and 8.2 assists per game.<\/p>\n<p>Selected fifth overall by Minnesota in 2009, Rubio owns career averages of 10.2 points, 8.1 assists, 4.1 rebounds and 2.3 steals over 182 games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minneapolis, MN (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Minnesota Timberwolves and guard Ricky Rubio have agreed to terms on a four-year contract extension, the team announced on Friday. Rubio and the Timberwolves settled on a $56 million contract, which includes $1 million in incentives, just hours prior to the midnight deadline, according to the Star Tribune. The 24-year-old [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[72,220,221],"class_list":["post-25228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-minnesota","tag-minnesota-timberwolves","tag-timberwolves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}