{"id":453926,"date":"2023-08-05T12:22:13","date_gmt":"2023-08-05T16:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=453926"},"modified":"2023-08-05T12:22:13","modified_gmt":"2023-08-05T16:22:13","slug":"ricky-rubio-takes-undisclosed-break-from-basketball","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/ricky-rubio-takes-undisclosed-break-from-basketball\/","title":{"rendered":"Ricky Rubio takes undisclosed break from basketball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ricky Rubio has announced on Saturday that he is taking a break from basketball to look after his mental health.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Cavs guard Ricky Rubio announced he has taken a break from basketball to focus on his mental health <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/r2nxFDBYFZ\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/r2nxFDBYFZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BleacherReport\/status\/1687833432095649792?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 5, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The decision comes right before his Spanish national team prepares to defend the FIBA World Cup, won 4 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Rubio was selected as MVP in that tournament, securing an 8-0 record in the championship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have decided to stop my professional activity to take care of my mental health,\u201d Rubio said in a public statement. \u201cI want to thank all the support I have received from the FEB to understand my decision. Today #LaFamilia makes more sense than ever. Thank you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rubio refused to give any further intel about the reasons behind it and asked for his privacy to be respected.<\/p>\n<p>The veteran point guard is the oldest player in the Cavaliers&#8217; roster and has a long 12-year experience in the NBA, playing for Minnesota, Utah, Phenix and Cleveland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ricky Rubio has announced on Saturday that he is taking a break from basketball to look after his mental health. Cavs guard Ricky [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":453927,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17531],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[18066,20787],"acf":{"announce":"The Cavaliers' point guard has stated as mental health issues as the main reason behind his decision","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/453926"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/453926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453926"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=453926"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=453926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}