Injured point guard Ricky Rubio aimed toward making his preseason debut Sunday at Memphis. He participated in Sunday’s light workout in Toronto and interim coach Sam Mitchell hopes he can practice fully in live contact Friday and Saturday after the team returns from a three-game Canadian trip that ends Wednesday in Ottawa.
He’s not expected to play Monday in Toronto or Wednesday, also against the Raptors, because of a quad strain that kept him out of the team’s first two preseason games. “If he’s not going to practice, it wouldn’t make sense to play him,” Mitchell said.