Intro:

Ricky Rubio spoke to the media on Tuesday (10th April) for the first time since tearing the ACL and LCL ligaments in his left knee in March in a game against the Los Angeles Lakers.

He underwent successful knee surgery on March 21 and has begun the road to recovery that lies ahead of him.

Script:

SOUNDBITE: (English) Ricky Rubio

"Surgery went well so I'm happy about that. Now it's a slow process but it's been so far so good. It's been.....the things are going good we just have to wait until I can do more things. It was Dr Steadman at Vale, Colorado and he was nice. It was nice being with one of the best doctors. He gave me confidence from the first time that I saw him and he explained to me all the things and he was good."

SOUNDBITE: (English) Ricky Rubio

"The first two weeks I could do nothing else but bending the knee and some squat sets and as far as I could do in the first two weeks was 90 degrees. After those two weeks I could bend it a little bit more, just pushing as hard as I can do and it hurts a little bit but it's been good."