I knew it was too good to be true

Spanish basketball prodigy, already being compared to Pistol Pete and Steve Nash, enough game to maybe be the number 1 pick in the 2009 NBA draft. Normally that would be enough, but to have one of the most fun names to say in all of sports, He could be legendary.

Just saying his name made me feel like all the problems I was having in Shanghai, finding work, dealing with visas would work themselves out.

But I knew it was too good to be true. I was having way to much fun saying Ricky RUUUUUUUBBBBBBBBIO, there had to be a silver lining. and when I visited his wikipedia page there it was staring me in the face. Mocking me.

How can Ricard Vives be his real name? Ricard Vives is a name for three-point specialists with slow quirky releases . Ricky Rubio is the name of a star.

You let me down "Pretty" Ricky. But I'm going to forget it ever happened (much the same way that the hip hop community did with Jay-Z's Kingdome Come Album), I'm going to pretend that I never visited the wikipedia page, that because people can change whatever they want on that site, that someone made up your name and that it is still indeed Ricky RUUUUUUUBBBBBBBBIO.