Sunday night the NBA featured one of its most exciting matchups of the season. The young Los Angeles Lakers traveled to Minnesota to take on another young squad in the Timberwolves.

Both teams have highly talented young players with great potential, and both teams are future contenders – keyword on future. In this contest, the Timberwolves gave the Lakers all they could handle before handily taking the game 125-99 when the final buzzer sounded.

On one particular play, point guard Ricky Rubio channeled his inner Steve Nash and drew the defense to him like a puppet master.

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Rubio drove around the court pulling the Lakers defense in a circle, before dishing a bounce pass to Cole Aldrich behind him for a tomahawk dunk over Julius Randle.

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Well played, Rubio.