Timberwolves shut down Ricky Rubio for remainder of the season

Ricky Rubio's season started with a new four-year, $56 million contract extension and the reins to a young Timberwolves roster and will end injured on the bench.

Wolves president of basketball operations and coach Flip Saunders said Saturday that Rubio will sit the remaining six games this season.

"There's no use in him playing," Saunders said. "We thought with what we were doing (in his rehab) that he'd get relief, and he's not getting relief. So we want to make sure that there's nothing else that's happening in there."