Ricky Rubio is one of two significant point guards on a Minnesota Timberwolves team that is just one game above .500. He is shooting a miserable 35 percent from the floor, his Player Efficiency Rating is at 15 (which is exactly average), and he coughs up a turnover on 22 percent of the possessions he uses up -- a terrible rate, especially for a point guard. And when he went down with a torn ACL against the Lakers on Friday night , the NBA's collective heart broke. Not only was the rookie one of the game's most engaging watches, but his willingness to take chances and help turn around a moribund Timberwolves franchise won the hearts and minds of even his most dubious and sensible critics within the first week of his first NBA season. The league will miss Rubio, badly. And the league's players immediately took to Twitter to share in the frustration and (let's face it) legitimate sadness. Starting with LeBron James:
