Ricky Rubio has been given the green light to resume full contact practice with the Minnesota Timberwolves but he is not sure when that will translate to a return on-court. The Spaniard has been rehabbing as he attempts to comeback from the surgery he underwent on March 21st to repair two torn ligaments in his left knee, and has been steadily increasing the work over time. But first he wants to see how he gets through practice on Sunday.
“No idea,” he said, smiling, surrounded by a mob of reporters when asked about his return date. “I don’t know how I’m going to feel, if I’m going to feel great, if I’m going to feel weak,” he said. “I don’t have any idea. I have it all in my mind, ‘Oh, I want to practice, I want to dunk.’ But I don’t think I can.”
Rubio says his knee has almost 100 percent movement back.
“I’m doing everything,” he said. “Sometimes if I do too much, I feel a little pain. But it’s normal, because it’s not only the knee, it’s been the whole body that has been stopped for eight months without playing. So it’s normal.”
