Ricky Rubio blasts Rudy Gobert as classless after Spain defeats France

September 17, 2015

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Timberwolves point guard Ricky Rubio is like the benevolent puppy dog of the NBA. He tells teammates to be happy, he inspires marvelously idiosyncratic Christmas gifts, he loves scooters, and he’s fantastic with kids.

Plus, he makes faces like this:

Rubio just seems like the epitome of peace on earth and goodwill towards men. So when he calls you out for being classless, that’s how you know you’re really goofing up.

Rubio’s native Spain defeated France in their 2015 EuroBasket semifinal game on Thursday by the final of 80-75 to qualify for the Olympic Games. The 24-year-old himself was injured and didn’t play, but teammate Pau Gasol went bonkers with 40 points and 11 rebounds. Gasol really frustrated France’s Rudy Gobert, who wound up fouling out after 31 minutes. Gobert wasn’t pleased with what he thought was biased officiating (for what it’s worth, Gasol shot 18 free throws on the day), and vented his frustrations on Twitter afterwards.

Hard to play when somebody can touch you but you can't touch him! Tough loss it is painfull to lose this way but we will bounce back!! ????

— rudy gobert (@rudygobert27) September 17, 2015

Rubio fired back at Gobert with three simple words:

No class act https://t.co/q8uj3t7DP8

— Ricky Rubio (@rickyrubio9) September 17, 2015

What’s even more interesting is that Rubio elected to praise Gobert’s French teammate Nicolas Batum for his own classiness in defeat.

Congrats to the Spanish team and Pau Gasol for tonight's game. Good luck for your next game.

— Nicolas Batum (@nicolas88batum) September 17, 2015

Class act https://t.co/zhwbJ0QBVM

— Ricky Rubio (@rickyrubio9) September 17, 2015

Batum, of course, is no guest of honor in the state of Spain after the events of the 2012 Olympics.

Fortunately, it doesn’t look like Rubio will need to take any further action about Gobert’s lack of class. If the Jazz center doesn’t have any, maybe Rubio’s Timberwolves teammate Andrew Wiggins can teach him some. Again.