Ricky Rubio, a point guard of Minnesota Timberwolves, missed Sunday's game against the Denver Nuggets for personal reasons.

Rubio has left the team on Friday for personal reasons and won't rejoin the Wolves until late Sunday or Monday, Coach Tom Thibodeau said Saturday after practice. Rubio needed to return home to Spain and his brother posted on Instagram that their grandma had passed away.

According to Realgm report, Rubio did not play in the second half against the Los Angeles Clippers on Thursday as a result of snugness in his left hip, yet Thibodeau said Saturday that was not a worry going ahead.

Kris Dunn and Tyus Jones filled in commendably, helping the Wolves overcome the Clippers, 104-101. Rubio said after the diversion he was not worried about the injury, however, it interrupted a noteworthy keep running for the pass-first point guard. In his past five full games from Jan. 9-17, Rubio was averaging 13.2 focuses and 14.0 helps, looking more like the playmaker he was before in his profession.

He has been the subject of exchange bits of gossip for a significant part of the season, with the conviction that Thibodeau would favor a point guard who shoots better from the border. League sources told ESPN on Friday that the Timberwolves have talked about a potential exchange that would send Rubio to the Detroit Pistons for point guard Reggie Jackson.

The Wolves are only 15-28, however, they are 9-10 since a 6-18 begin. Still, obviously they have a great deal of enhancing to do to become a factor in the Western Conference, and Rubio has all the earmarks of being one of only a handful couple of benefits they will part with that could bring a good player consequently.

ESPN revealed that the Wolves and Detroit Pistons had dialogs about a Rubio-for-Reggie Jackson exchange, yet Pistons coach and team president Stan Van Gundy shot that down on Saturday. Likewise, Van Gundy told columnists in Detroit that he messaged Jackson to let him know saying, "this is the insane season. We're not exchanging you for Ricky Rubio."

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