Pre-Olympic linky goodness

Group A:

Team USA – Ricky Rubio skillz from his first year. The reason? Kevin Love. I don’t need much of a reason to shoehorn a guy like Rubio into a link.

Argentina – Manu Ginobili’s mum FTW with her nice motherly story: Manu is a guard. Like Rubio.

France – Go to Youtube and type in ‘Ronny Turiaf dancing’. You’re welcome.
Ronny Turiaf thus far shot 0% from 3 for his career, so you could say ‘Ronny Turiaf’ bricks. Conveniently, the word ‘RICKY RUBIO’ can be made from that sentence. You’re double-y welcome.

Lithuania – The 1992 Lithuanian National Team basically admit they got high during the Olympics.
Easiest shoehorn yet: Rubio played against Lithuania.

Nigeria – Ike Diogu plays for Capitanes de Arecibo in Puerto Rico. In March 2010, Capitanes de Arecibo were expelled from the Premier Basketball League for alleged wrongdoing. Capitanes de Arecibo fought that decision in court and won. Then they won the league. Four months after being expelled. IN YOUR FACE PBL! – Forward Koko Archibong’s starsign is Libra. Guess who else is a Libra. Correct.

Tunisia – Radhouane Slimane – remember the name.
Tunisia has warm weather. So does Spain. That’s right, Ricky. You tell ’em.

GROUP B

Austrailia – The Austraila men’s National Team are called the ‘Boomers’. Awesome. A guide to the Australian SLANGuage. Do you see what I’ve done there? Word play is the bestest.
Aussie guard, Patty Mills, during his time in the NBA, has played solely in the Western Conference. Rubio says SNAP.

Brazil – Leandro Barbosa plays for Brazil and…well…. Okay? Barbosa also played in Toronto with Jose Calderon. Jose is in Toronto – at least for now. He is also Rubio’s National team-mate.

China – Remember 2010 when China and Brazil had an exhibition game and it resulted in this? Bob Donewald is apparently still the coach so chances are, when the teams meet in London, there is the potential for more cray-cray. Also, the appropriately (and excellently) named CHINASMACK has more pictures. – ‘China’ has five letters in it’s name. So does ‘Spain’. And ‘Ricky’ and ‘Rubio’. Perfect.

Great Britain – No funnies. Just business.

First things first: This is a link to everything Team GB Basketball related.

Here is the Men’s upcoming schedule and Team GB Men’s roster.

Keep moving. No Rubio stuff to see here.

Spain – Okay, it was 2008 and I’m sure they’d like to forget it, but this happened. Wrongwrongwrong. China’s got grounds for some genuine beef this Olympics.
I think Rubio has some connection with Spain. If you know what it is, tell me in the comments.

Russia – Three words: Kirilenko. Yearly. Allowance.

No justification this time. This is just Rubio doing ‘Rubio’ stuff.