You could understand why Love took it hard; he's a proud All-Star, endured three prior years of losing in Minnesota, all that. But Rubio? Kid's been in the NBA for all of 10 minutes. What does that say about him, that he'd sit by his locker long after the game, chin in hand, feet in an ice bucket, feeling like someone just ordered him to get a crewcut?
"The one thing we didn't know is that he's a competitor," said Wolves coach Rick Adelman.
Yes, among other things. Rubio was mainly a mystery to the NBA when he arrived in Minnesota, someone who clearly had court vision but put up measly numbers in Europe, couldn't hit a jumper no one could recall and whose will to win on the big stage was untested. He had more questions following him into the NBA than squealing teenaged girls.
Then the season starts, and all the predictions that were completely off get brushed under the rug, and the analysts pretend like they saw it all coming.
Well, we didn't see it all.
In fact, some of these no one saw coming, or at least only a minority of people. Here are the 10 biggest surprises to the season so far.
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