The Utah Jazz were a team involved in many, many trade rumors leading up to the NBA’s trade deadline on February 7. Most notably, they were in talks with the Memphis Grizzlies regarding point guard Mike Conley.
Ricky Rubio would have been a part of any trade that netted the Jazz Conley, and I’m sure he knew that. He also probably knows that Utah didn’t acquire Conley because they were adamant about keeping Dante Exum, Rubio’s backup, around.
Understandably, Rubio wasn’t having a fun time yesterday. He took to Twitter with numerous tweets, trying to find humor in his situation, but that didn’t change the fact that he very well could have been traded.