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Rudy turned down big money?

http://www.elmundodeportivo.es/web/gen/20080325/noticia_53448375778.html

This article seems to say Rudy turned down 20 million Euros for three years from CSKA Moscow with a view on the horizon to play in the NBA.

I'm a little rusty on my espanol. Anyone care to translate (wink, wink to our friend in Spain)?

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BTW ...
I never realized his official name was Rodolfo. That name is sweet! From here on I will only refer to the young Spaniard as Rodolfo.

by bfan on Mar 25, 2008 1:19 PM PDT   0 recs

you're basically right
CSKA Moscow offered him a big contract to stay in Europe but he turned it down.  Of course, everyone is speculating that he's heading to the Blazers.  However, his agent declined to comment as Rudy is still focused on winning for his current team.  At the end they even quoted Pritchard and Mike Barrett singing his praises and how Rudy's return will coincide with the return of Oden, etc.
Overall this is a very good sign for Blazers fans!

by kickbrass on Mar 25, 2008 1:29 PM PDT   0 recs

good ol' google translator
Running it through the translator also gets you this gem (towards the end):

With the recovery of pivot Greg Oden, a number of the latest draft, and Rudy strengthening a perimeter already very powerful, the goal of the Blazers is to pursue everything.

Forget "Rise With Us" -- our new slogan should be "Pursue Everything!"

by kickbrass on Mar 25, 2008 1:35 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I also like this one:
"In the end, DKV took the cat to water."

I have no idea what this means! Though it looks more like an expression rather than a weird translation, because "el gato al agua" is pretty close to that. Any Spaniards around want to explain this expression to us Americanites?

by bfan on Mar 25, 2008 1:39 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

It is a saying to express when someone
obtain something that some more people is trying to obtain. Cats don´t like water, so the guy who achieve to carry the cat with him to the water is the guy who reach his goal against others. It can be aplied to a game, for example: The Blazers "se llevaron el gato al agua" in a game means they won the game.
A gatherins of sheperds, and one dead sheep.

by amlmart1 on Mar 25, 2008 2:04 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Muchas gracias.
Maybe that's a common expression here also, but I've never heard it before ...

by bfan on Mar 25, 2008 2:20 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I believe you are thinking of the following:
"You can take a cat to water but you can't make him drown"

by 92wastheyear on Mar 25, 2008 2:51 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

nope... sorry.... tried it
didn't die.

just kidding.....it did die!

just kidding for real

by 92wastheyear on Mar 25, 2008 3:45 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Of course, there's more than 1 way to drown a cat.
Way less fun than shooting fish in a barrel full of monkeys!
Did you really put stuff on top of the eggs? Like, for real? He put . . . HE PUT THE LIGHT BULBS ON THE BOTTOM!

by QualityPie on Mar 26, 2008 12:04 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Hey Bud!
Good to see ya postin' again.

I didn't want you to be a flowser, no way.

"The Team with Caricature!"

by Lizzy Lowblow on Mar 25, 2008 7:12 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Nice!
I'm going to make that my Signature.
Don't Forget about Oden

by hightide on Mar 25, 2008 2:11 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Nope
Too long...
Don't Forget about Oden

by hightide on Mar 25, 2008 2:11 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Pursue Everything
Perfect.  We should win every game.

Greg isn't going to play in summer league, and I don't know if Rudy will, with the Olympics this summer.

But after that, we pursue everything.  Everything.

We should not lose anything after Summer League until Summer League the following year.  That year, since we won't have that many draft picks, and since even our bench players will be all stars, we'll have a hard time fielding a team.

But we'll have an all-world team stashed in Europe, players so anxious to be associated with us that they'll personally buy out their European contracts just to play on our Summer League team.  All the best players in Europe will come over and win all the Summer League games.

Then, we will form a Trailblazers Euro team to play in Alfredo's home town, and they will rule Europe.

I haven't yet figured out how we are going to win the Eastern Conference as well as the West, but when we do, the Finals will be a matchup between our first and second string (since our bench will be better than everyone else's starters).  We are Pursuing Everything.

I'm frequently right, but always certain

by jscot on Mar 26, 2008 1:14 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Most of the second units in NBA
could be the best teams in Europe and they would win against all Europe teams, once they develope and adapt to European competition (no more than one or two years). Only very few European teams can survive to that test and even that few are not very sure.
A gatherins of sheperds, and one dead sheep.

by amlmart1 on Mar 26, 2008 3:05 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

No, no, no
(I'm learning, that's bilingual, right?)

Our second unit will be the best in the >Eastern Conference<.  Our third unit will comprise two human victory cigars and three Development League all-stars.

But since we can only have 15 on our roster, we will have a FOURTH unit, and THEY will rule Europe.

Remember:  Pursue Everything.

I'm frequently right, but always certain

by jscot on Mar 26, 2008 6:27 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Yes, that's bilingual,
Or better multilingual, as in French and Italian is "no" too.
A gatherins of sheperds, and one dead sheep.

by amlmart1 on Mar 27, 2008 12:55 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Great! I know French, now, too!
My prior French knowledge consisted of "Sprechen Sie Deutsch?"
I'm frequently right, but always certain

by jscot on Mar 27, 2008 2:13 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Your are wrong for first time.
That words, "Sprechen Sie Deutsch?", are a cookney derivation of an old English saying: "Spread germ sift dog´s itch". You Know what I mean.
A gatherins of sheperds, and one dead sheep.

by amlmart1 on Mar 27, 2008 6:58 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I promise
it won't happen again.  Being wrong, I mean.
I'm frequently right, but always certain

by jscot on Mar 27, 2008 7:42 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Rudy Fernandez was defeated
by Marc Gasol and Joventut lost 87-80 against AKASVAYU GIRONA: 32:29 min., 18 points, 2 rebounds, 3 assists, 2 steals, 1 TO, 4 foul, 4 fouled. Shooting p. 4/8, 2/7, 4/5; efficiency 13. All players stats. Highlights.
Great game by Pau´s brother.
A gatherins of sheperds, and one dead sheep.

by amlmart1 on Mar 25, 2008 2:22 PM PDT   0 recs

Thanks. It´s nice to return here
to share with you. Paris is beautiful, but last week there was too much cold weather for my Spanish skin. And I missed you.
A gatherins of sheperds, and one dead sheep.

by amlmart1 on Mar 25, 2008 2:40 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I missed you too
I spend the weekend looking at my caricature, while I was in the fetal position, mumbling your name.
The square on the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares on the other two sides.

by tominhawaii on Mar 25, 2008 3:16 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I dreamed with gutters
and the sound of thousand flutes.
A gatherins of sheperds, and one dead sheep.

by amlmart1 on Mar 25, 2008 4:37 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

O/D
When Rudy has the ball, we shout "Rodolf-O!!!"

When Rudy is guarding the ball, "Rud-D!!!"

Maybe not.  Anyone know much about Rudy's D? (Thankfully, "The Matador" is already taken.)

'77

by LaoTzu on Mar 25, 2008 3:44 PM PDT   0 recs

How bout
"RU-D-FENCE RU-D-FENCE!!!"

by 92wastheyear on Mar 25, 2008 3:46 PM PDT   0 recs

If I were Rudy...
......................... I'd pocket 20 million Euros for 3 years and learn Russian...
"You don't live by the jumpshot, you die by the jumpshot." ---Charles Barkley, 2/7/08

by timbo on Mar 26, 2008 9:26 AM PDT   0 recs

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