With Ricky Rubio Back, Is D. Rose Next?

December 17, 2012 7:57 AM

" Taj Gibson sat in his locker staring down at his iPhone Saturday night, right after the Bulls beat the Brooklyn Nets at the United Center. “Ricky Rubio played tonight?” he asked. “What did he have?” referring to the point guard’s stats.

Checking the box score from the Minnesota Timberwolves game, I read Rubio’s line to Gibson: 8 points, four rebounds, nine assists and three steals.

“Man,” said an astonished Gibson. “And he had his surgery like two months before D. Rose.”

When you first heard that Ricky Rubio was back on the court Saturday night, just nine months after tearing his ACL, if you’re a Bulls fan, your first thought was on Derrick Rose and when he’ll be back running with the team again.

You probably checked to see when Rubio injured himself and compared it to the date of Derrick’s injury to establish a general time frame – in your mind at least – of when the Bulls superstar could come back.

January? February? That certainly seemed to be what Taj was doing.

But according to K.C "

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