David Kahn on Ricky Rubio

The Minnesota Timberwolves' new president of basketball operations, David Kahn, created draft night intrigue when he drafted point guards with both the fifth (Ricky Rubio) and sixth (Jonny Flynn) picks. In the week-and-a-half since, the Timberwolves have held press conferences to introduce draft picks like Flynn and Wayne Ellington, but not Rubio, who has made ambiguous comments about playing for the Timberwolves. Rubio is under contract in Europe, and would need to negotiate a large buyout from DKV Joventut before he could join the NBA. Since the draft, there has been an uptick in talk that Rubio may stay in Europe for another season or two. Theories differ as to why, with the presence of Flynn, the enormity of the buyout, Rubio's lower-than-expected draft position and the climate in Minnesota chief among them. Here is some of what Kahn had to say in a phone conversation Tuesday morning: One of the things that I found surprising was that the day before the draft, Ricky Rub...