Rudy Tomjanovich | Hall of Fame Enshrinement Speech

[@Andrea-sc7cs]

one of the most underrated coaches of all time. glad he finally got the recognition he deserved

[@Larez121]

Truth.

[@rampantcolt]

Fax 📠

[@TMthe33rd]

And a great player too #4 in Rockets all time points

[@jarredthomas6506]

UNDERRATED PLAYER

[@Amick44]

​@@jarredthomas6506 i wish there were more footage of Rudy and Jerry Sloan as players. Both were very good. Doc Rivers is an underrated player as well.

[@dhinton1]

I'm glad that his contemporaries ... like Pop ... worked tirelessly to get Rudy T in the HOF. he deserved to be.

[@genocide222]

Hakeem looked like he could still drop another 35pts, 10reb, 5ast with 4 blocks and 2 steals

[@magfromrags2873]

I'd give an arm to see him , ray Allen and mJ enter the big 3.

[@luisedwardoane4430]

He can drop those stats retired and fasting.

[@MrEherndon5]

All that but I say 3 steals lol

[@Wurzil78]

He nearly stole the show!

[@tristmas6458]

Straight talk

[@tashrif46]

0:57 the most gifted and best center of all time. Period. And well deserved. Rudy T! Its about damn time!

[@jamesthereaper7]

“I have one thing to say to those non-believers. Don't ever underestimate the heart of a champion.” - Rudy Tomjanovich

[@eboymacapagal7411]

One of the greatest sports quotes of all time

[@dhinton1]

@@eboymacapagal7411 LITERALLY. that speech might outlive basketball itself. that line will NEVER grow old.

[@orestetorres4261]

That's right lets all thank everyone else except the One who truly deserves all the credit and glory the One who gave you ungrateful people your life and your breath, God. What an idolatrous and ungodly wicked world we are truly living in these last days. People worshiping and hailing other people like they are gods. If the real true God is fed up and burns this filthy world one day then I don't blame him. This insanity and foolishness must come to an end sooner or later.

[@orestetorres4261]

@@ihalimohammed4575 How was I even religious stupid. What religious acts or ceremonies have I done dum dum. Besides its a free country where freedom of expression and speech is still honored. Thank God we're in America but if I were you go move to Iran or Communist China where you fit in and belong. I'm sure your comrades will welcome you with open arms with that kind of tyranical thinking you commie. Bravo!

[@orestetorres4261]

@@ihalimohammed4575 You don't want me to shove my views here while you shoved yours back at me right hypocrite. Bravo!

[@siriusblack7714]

Rudy t is a coach straight out of a movie... "dont ever underestimate the HEART of a champion"

[@JuanPerez64215]

We love you Rudy, thank you for helping us bring 2 championship to Houston! 🏆 Congrats Coach Rudy T! 🎊🎉

[@BigHeeboMane]

Wow Rudy T is a REAL one! i almost thought he forgot about good ol Robert Horry but he gave it up for him at the end! he even shouted out his fellow coaches who spoke up for him to get in! that was GREAT Clutch City! Never underestimate the heart of a Champion! Shalom 🦁

[@tristmas6458]

Rudy epitomises the true spirit of basketball. What a lovely man

[@marilynduine3750]

Rockets 1995 championship was the greatest run as a 6 seed. I watched every moment of it and I still watch the highlights to this day! Never be another Hakeem.

[@hectorlopez1069]

Clyde was brilliant as well.

[@McGoogger]

what a class act. to think he got his head cracked open to then going on the be such a prosperous and inspirational figure. truly a role model and a legend

[@JJ-jf1is]

I ran into Hakeem at the airport this past Friday before this! Stoked I got to talk to a basketball legend! Congrats Rudy T!

[@TratUsYT]

He is such a nice guy. I’ve run into him a few times in my life and he’s so humble and always willing to take time out for the fans. One of the greatest ever.

[@shanedawson-xt3wt]

Robert Horry truly does deserve to be in the HOF! Rudy T spoke from the heart! Truly Great speech!

[@hectorlopez1069]

Horry needs to be there really soon.

[@Amick44]

​@@hectorlopez1069as a spectator. Good, not HOFer.

[@nomnom9992]

Nope

[@texasmadd47]

Growing up in the Houston area in the 80/90's was a great time to be alive! Glad Rudy T finally got the recognition he deserves. "Don't ever underestimate the heart of a champion." #Clutch #City 🤘🏼

[@randycooper3428]

😢😭 Its about time. Congrats Rudy T! Same old humble Hakeem. When Rudy credits him for being the main reason for him being there Hakeem reacts all bashful. I love him. I love both, HELL add Murph in there to. Lol

[@Mr_Jish]

Two things: The shoutouts to Sam Cassell and Vernon "Mad Max" Maxwell were incredible and well deserved for those two (as well as for all of the players he gave thanks to). And then there was the pitch for Big Shot Bob. I know a lot of people disagree that he deserves enshrinement, but it was awesome seeing Rudy go to bat for him during his own speech.

[@mattbingham2856]

Robert Horry deserves the Hall Of Fame more than Chris Bosh & Ben Wallace COMBINED!

[@TratUsYT]

Robert horry deserves it for sure. Love that he mentioned mad max. So many great max max memories.

[@bradleybeal7737]

What a underated coach good to see him in the hall of fame

[@Amick44]

Kobe called him his favorite coach.

[@leanaahmed]

He's so humble. He recognizes and thanks everyone that got him there. #houstontx Robert Horry, you're next!

[@muggshotgaming7555]

not a chance in hell.

[@YK-fj5bj]

8:15 Not just a great player, a great coach.... he’s also a fan.

[@dreamsanity34]

"Never underestimate the heart of the champion!"

[@randycooper3428]

Gotta say goodbye to the Legend Bill Worrell also. Longtime Houston Broadcaster. I sure miss the good old days with him and Murphy!

[@blocc316]

Damn he retired

[@alanfortune3092]

Doesn't Murph still call the games?

[@randycooper3428]

@@blocc316 sure did.

[@randycooper3428]

@@alanfortune3092 No. He was "removed" aka FIRED when he was accused of molesting a number of his daughters. He was never charged. I think it was a situation where a few of his kids trying to get money from him. Anyways, he did rejoin the crew a while back but only does pre-game, halftime, and post-game analysis.

[@blocc316]

@@randycooper3428 Gawd damn all this felt like yesterday 😳... Bill Worrell , Calvin , Dream . Goodbye to what was

[@pmurphy140]

Congratulations to one of the most beloved people in Houston sports, this was a well deserved honor for Rudy T.

[@WaddleSZN.]

Rudy is loved by Houston.

[@Nami]

Damn right, he is.

[@redwing1766]

He’s loved universal. He was incredibly as a coach and player.

[@saturdaynightjordan]

Rudy T and the Houston rockets of the 90s are THE MOST underrated coach and champion team of all time.

[@hectorlopez1069]

Rudy T will always be a special man in our hearts in the Houston Rockets organization.

[@bartsimpson3548]

Super underrated player and coach, long overdue he gets in the hall.

[@NeverNotHoopin]

Finally coach T gets the recognition he deserves!

[@kacymah93]

Well deserved 👏👏👏 Rudy T’s speech embodies what a HOF and a champion is all about - TEAM!

[@CoachDarren]

Great speech Rudy T he was a great coach and underrated great player!

[@summeronio9751]

Heart of a Champion

[@back2back379]

bruh, I get hyped just listening to him. You can tell he's one of those great motivational speakers.

[@kathyyoung3779]

Love you always, Rudy. Thank you for being a wonderful coach.

[@bballcreator]

He seemed a good guy and great career after overcoming that incident.

[@jonesorock3759]

@Brayden punched ??

[@BigDetergent]

@@jonesorock3759 yeah look up "kermit washington punches tomjonovich". He almost died from it.

[@Ivander85]

Great speech by Rudy T. Very accomplished and yet humble about it.

[@MichealLee__]

This coach right there love ❤️

[@prz8817]

Thank you Rudy for all that you gave your time in Houston.. It will never be forgotten a true leader of men and love for the game of basketball a 2time Back2Back champion & Hall of Fame coach well done sir Houston Loves ❤ You! 🤘🏽🏆🏆

[@KrayzieRoach]

I wanna thank rudy for thanking everybody

[@thebiscuitrose]

Rudy T. I am so happy to hearof this. .

[@rjpsuh06]

10:15 Rudy T shoutout to Rockets broadcasting, including Bill Worrell who retired yesterday after nearly 40 years of calling Rockets games

[@sagebulls818]

Sending out luv to Rudy T.

[@timramsay95]

God Bless you Coach Thank you

[@bestinthesmokersworld2422]

Mad respect to Rudy T. As a lifelong Bulls fan, nothing was more satisfying than seeing the Rockets take out the Knicks in '94. Top five coach of all-time.

[@blewin2011]

Loved that he advocated for Big Shot Rob to be in the HOF!

[@Nami]

That put a big smile on my face.

[@nr30199]

How does a man with SEVEN rings not get into the hall of fame. His stats may not have jumped off the page on you put he hit some pretty "big shots" in his career. The man played for 4 teams and won championships with 3 of them.

[@vanity9105]

@@nr30199 patrick mccaw 3 time champion. i guess he should be in hall of fame too right ?

[@nr30199]

@@vanity9105 Patrick McCaw played 5 years in the NBA . It's not his fault he was drafted by the Warriors and then ended on the Raptors and they won a championship. Robert Horry hit big shots to help 3 teams win championships to total him winning 7 rings. He played 16 seasons in the NBA, (McCaw is in the G League now.) He is the first player to have 100 steals, 100 blocks and 100 threes in a single season. Before he retired he broke Jordan's record of most 3's in the NBA Finals (some guy name Steph Curry holds it now) There are players in the HOF that have done less. But sure compare him to Patrick McCaw.

[@3411Chad]

Rudy T. is pure class all the way and his hall of fame speech is yet another example. That coaches and players in the NBA had to advocate for him to FINALLY get into the hall is outrageous. This man was a five-time all-star as a player and a two-time, back-to-back champion as a head coach; should have been inducted in his first few years of eligibility with those credentials. Congrats Rudy; well-deserved though egregiously overdue!

[@capitanfuturo594]

Rudy Tonjanovich was a very underrated player and very underrated coach.

[@aliali-ce3yf]

with Bill Worrell retiring yesterday, and now Rudy T in the HOF, it really is the end of an era for the Rockets. It feels like that run from the 80s where the Rockets always had stars, in the playoff/title mix officially over.

[@shaunroland8053]

Yeah they're done...been a great run indeed man, lots of fond memories but their legacy is over..

[@freddyb3380]

It's never over!!!

[@aliali-ce3yf]

@@freddyb3380 i hope they reboot , but any ties/links going back to the 80s is pretty much gone now. you had Moses Malone - > Olajuwon - > Drexler/Barkley/Pippen - > Stevie Franchise - > Ming - > TMac - > Harden/CP3/Russ - > now no one...... new ownership, new play by play, no stars, no big name coaches it really is a total break from that run that began in the 80s

[@freddyb3380]

@@aliali-ce3yf we still got Matt Bullard lol

[@Nami]

@@aliali-ce3yf My dude, the Rockets didn't go right from Yao and T-Mac to Harden. There were a couple of seasons in there of almost playoff teams with no stars. And I think people remember the Steve Francis years more fondly than they deserve. Houston never gets Yao if they're good during that time.

[@Negat1ve0n3]

Big Shot Horry deserves to be in the HOF. He's made so many big shots that really mattered, won series and championships! One of them was against my Sacramento Kings.

[@zerimar26]

Rudy T and the Houston Rockets they were able to shed the label "Choke City" from the city of Houston. Rudy T taught Hakeem to trust his teammates much like Jackson did for Jordan. Congrats Rudy T. Long overdue.

[@Amick44]

True. Don Chaney, before Rudy, tried to emphasize Hakeem to trust his teammates as well.

[@paulcooper1046]

Rudy T. The American Dream...❤

[@esKopi.pakaigula]

Congratulations coach....

[@trollbrochina]

One of the most underrated coaches of all time. Rudy T could lead Yao and Francis to championship if not for the cancer.

[@brucewayne1662]

Not unless he could get China to stop running him into the ground during the offseason.

[@TratUsYT]

And the injury to Yao if not we would have done it.

[@PookieBanton87]

The Robert Horry nod was a nice touch!

[@partylow1]

A class act!

[@edithmoore2023]

Happy That Rudy Made It In!!!🏀🏀

[@hlsby]

Great speech!

[@LeonBundage-t5n]

You Earned It Sir!

[@popcornisanarchism5654]

Kenny sitting on his couch smiling somewhere

[@sujalgautam9761]

kenny is a nobody lmao

[@b.w.8909]

@@sujalgautam9761 says a nobody🤡

[@sujalgautam9761]

@@b.w.8909 youre definitely somebody on the internet right ? oooo tough guy on the comment section

[@bnyc2000]

only on this platform is where you'll see ridiculous comments. Ugh

[@michaelB44750]

He stood up and received a well deserved honor for basketball. However, who he is, what’s he’s done as a leader leading by example goes outside the lines and hits all parts of our lives in life

[@petern326]

ITS ABOUT DAMN TIME

[@bulbangs]

A true legend

[@ifrankg76]

Awesome Speech!

[@yurielcundangan9090]

Tomjanovich: *SPEECHES Everyone: Serious MATTERS

[@ehwilliamz]

Clutch City in the House 🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@aph757]

What a great speech

[@Negat1ve0n3]

One superstar team. Hakeem was surrounded with the right pieces and an excellent coach. Would've loved to have seen them against the MJ Bulls slug it out in the finals.

[@YaBoyFr33ze]

I want to thank Kermit Washington for almost killing me

[@IAmDrewselum]

Hell nah lmaooo

[@louismclean6662]

Nah beauty from hamtramck Michigan bro you got to come better than that bro still went to the Hall of Fame!!!!!

[@YaBoyFr33ze]

@UC-wXshzVuJttZa5Ol-vbxEA 8 years and 2 su s

[@Darknights23]

congratulations coach Rudy T

[@b.w.8909]

Coach T spitting nothing but facts. Get Robert Horry‘s butt in the HOF

[@4realGTFOH]

Hakeem absolutely the best Rocket ever.

[@Batman-ol3xk]

Bro not even a debate Hakeem all day

[@hookemdagawd5607]

@ImDirkTV and Harden and Moses Malone and Elvin Hayes

[@blocc316]

@@hookemdagawd5607 Harden lacks the heart Hakeem had

[@hookemdagawd5607]

@@blocc316 not better than hakeem but one of the greatest rockets nonetheless

[@blocc316]

@@hookemdagawd5607 I agree he put us *Back* on the map

[@yurielcundangan9090]

Tomjanovich: *SPEECHESSS Everyone: Serious MATTERS

[@rasarmusic1]

Yuriel: *COMMENTS Me: Not UNDERSTANDING

[@joshvice4]

Thanks Uncle Joe. 4:34 ALL THE SPORTS

[@mavenfrankeus7287]

Al Pacino will play Rudy in a movie soon.

[@josephbrunner4087]

Humble

[@shinjipascal862]

CONGRATS

[@nuggetluva88]

He got punched in the face but he still kept strong

[@miguelcastro0666]

I thought Rudy wuz gon thank me for a sec

[@brucewayne1662]

In a way he thanked me because I was a big Rockets fan living in Houston, although I wasnt one of the people who waited at the airport in the middle of the night when they flew back from Phoenix

[@johnlewandowski4899]

maybe Matt Bullard, Coach. you miss almost no one, thank you, I love you Rudy T.

[@1969EType]

True story...my car got a flat tire when I was in Houston. After I changed the tire, I wanted to throw the old tire in the trunk and just as I released it, Hakeem came out of nowhere and knocked it out of the way...

[@freddyb3380]

For some reason i believe you lol

[@1969EType]

@@freddyb3380 , that guy is everywhere, man! :)

[@conroexlexx8267]

94-95 was special years for H!

[@edzdaone91]

THE BEST HOUSTON ROCKETS COACH OF ALL TIME!!!!! 🚀 🚀 💍 💍

[@kk-sr1wl]

Robert Horry definitely hall of famer... he help rockets Lakers spurs all win chips

[@BrucknerMotet]

plus he wasn't just an "on the court" guy. He also fought for players and causes off the court, and wasn't afraid of the glare of the camera lights or the heat of the tough questions.

[@romoc0p]

Houston loves you, Rudy.

[@RIDGEMATIC]

Awesome

[@larsmarkannen3396]

the original mask man in the hof!

[@Bodlasona]

For a moment I thought what Brian Ferry from Roxy Music doing in a Basketball hall of Fame

[@mournblade1066]

"As they say, two can play. . . but keep that song away from me."

[@jsoqbwbeks2653]

Ay that's the dude who got absolutely destroyed by that punch in the 70s. Good to see him doing well

[@badbeatbilly8997]

Oh yeah the good ole days

[@dashthehero192]

his entire speech is bigging up every since other human!

[@markjackson6431]

LONG OVERDUE! CLUTCH CITY! BACK TO BACK! WE HAD NON-BELIEVERS ALL ALONG THE WAY. I HAVE ONE THING TO SAY TO THOSE NON-BELIEVERS...”DONT EVER UNDERESTIMATE THE HEART OF A CHAMPION”

[@hectorlopez1069]

That punch in the face was so brutal that it almost killed him.

[@eltonkparkah2769]

Who ever put 👎 down is a real haters god bless them

[@hookemdagawd5607]

Suns fans. Broke their hearts 2 straight yrs

[@markjackson6431]

thanks for gassing Kenny up Coach T. now we will never hear the end of him!

[@karsonberg4770]

Sittin in the hall of fame! If u know that song you an og

[@billykaparang3158]

Robert Horry 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼

[@hectorlopez1069]

Hakeem and Rudy T turned choke city to clutch city.

[@ronharris9829]

Congrats Rudy T, My opinion of the best Players in Houston history (Houston career only) Hakeem MVP, 2 Finals MVPs, 2 DPOY - No one else is close Moses Malone 2 MVPs in Houston, Took team to the Finals James Harden Yao Ralph Sampson Calvin Murphy Clyde Drexler T-Mac Kenny Smith Robert Horry Steve Francis Rudy T Catino Mobley Sam Cassel Elvin Hayes Otis Thorpe Mad Max(Vernon Maxwell) Dwight Howard Chris Paul Robert Reid Mario Eli John Lucas Sleepy Floyd Jim Peterson Luis Scola Charles Barkley Clint Capella I am sure I missed someone!

[@martindigregorioacosta8769]

11:36... GUAU. And he is right.

[@enerparzie6127]

11:34 "Robert Horry Saves the Day"...

[@nr30199]

I honestly thought Rudy T was already in the HOF. So glad he was able to continue with his life and career after that HORRIFIC Kermit Washington incident.❤

[@markjackson6431]

Big Shot Rob/Bob he deserves. hell half the Celtics dynasty is in the hall of fame and all have to their credit is 6 plus rings. really KC Jones is in the HOF AS A PLAYER?!

[@hookemdagawd5607]

Wat u did in college and as a coach also counts

[@markjackson6431]

@@hookemdagawd5607 KC Jones is in the HOF as a coach, as he should. and yeah KC did play with Bill Russell in college. Horry was pretty good in college. two Sweet 16 appearances. Roll Tide. people say he was carried and that’s not really the case. you have to be good to make tough clutch shots. more importantly it says a lot when the likes of KOBE (like KOBE), Shaq, Hakeem, Timmy, and Clyde let you take the last shot... i’m not saying he should 100% be in there. i’m just making his case...