In the broader NBA world, this surely seems like just another footnote in a long list of trades made during and around the 2020 NBA Draft. Jrue Holliday was traded to the Bucks! Who cares about a deal that mostly involved picks and a point guard who just was traded, like, three or four days ago?
To understand why Rubio is so important to this franchise, you have to go back to when he was drafted back in 2009, a draft that can be summed up with one simple video clip:
Anyways, Jonny Flynn, yadda yadda yadda.