SALT LAKE CITY — Maybe it’s the change of scenery.
Moving from Minneapolis to Salt Lake City, Utah has introduced the league to a different Ricky Rubio: a dual-threat floor general who can score and facilitate.
Rubio logged his fifth career 30-point game in Tuesday’s 117-110 win against the Los Angeles Lakers.
He finished with 31 points, eight assists and six rebounds, leading the seventh-year pro to make a bold claim afterward that this is the best season of his career.
Rubio wasn’t playing, either.
“Yeah, absolutely. Because I feel good, I feel like I can control the tempo of the game without just scoring but in a lot of areas and I feel mature enough to really take over a game,” Rubio said.