Cin the main auditorium of the Pompidou Center in Malaga crowded, Rudy Fernández He began to reap the harvest of glory, the immense gratitude that basketball fans expressed to him wherever he went. It was 20 years of career that he reviewed in one of the most notable events of the luminous MARCA Sports Weekend. The former player took stock of his career since he was a child, he remembered the figure of his father as the promoter of the great feat that was his career and it was in a theater, where those fans who ‘loved’ him so much sent him, where he opened his heart to start a new path: “Now I want to be a family man, not that I wasn’t before, but now my priority is at home.”
The best players I’ve faced are Kobe, LeBron and Durant. LeBron is indefensible
Rudy, relaxed, smiling, satisfied with this chain of tributes that followed after he announced his retirement after more than 20 years of career, spoke about his beginnings and warned young people to “play to enjoythat they help their companion, that they lift up the one who falls and that they live day by day, that everything comes. And let them go full force. Because if you do something, you have to do it with all the consequences.”
He Balearic Islands received the M for BRAND as a unique player, the basketball record holder with six appearances in the Olympic Games. He talked about his time in the NBA as a time “where I felt important for being a rookie, although somewhat pigeonholed because I broke the record for triples for a rookie and they already saw me as a triple shooter.” Rudy chose Kobe Bryant, LeBron and Durant as the best players he has faced. “LeBron was indefensible. In one of the Olympic finals I hit him hard but he didn’t even flinch and made the layup. It’s amazing. He took great care of himself and now he can play with his son.”
“I am very satisfied with my career, now I suffer from not playing, but I am happy with what I have experienced and what I have left to live.”
The Balearic Islands got involved in the best Spanish athlete in history, although with nuances. “I have to choose two, Rafa Nadal because his is an individual sport and Pau because he was always a reference for usbut basketball is a team sport. Without him, I wouldn’t have the track record that I have, but without us Pau wouldn’t have the track record that you have either.”
Rudy, who will take advantage of his stay in Malaga for the MSW to watch the match between Unicaja and Lleida, admitted that he suffers without playing “especially in the Super Cup, when we were watching the match in the pavilion.” He admitted that before signing for Madrid, he could have done “with Barça, Valencia, Baskonia, CSKA Moscow.” He trusts that the white team will not miss him too much and He valued the growth of Unicaja. “They’ve been doing things right for a long time.they have a great team and right now they are in a position to fight for the supremacy of Spanish basketball.”
