Rudy Fernandez - 2009 NBA Slam Dunk Contest

Round 1
First Dunk (Score: 42): 0:00
Second Dunk (Score: 42): 1:18
February 14, 2009 - For his first dunk of the 2009 NBA Slam Dunk Contest, Trail Blazers rookie Rudy Fernandez humbly paid tribute to Fernando Martin Espina, the first Spanish player to ever play in the NBA. Fernandez would ultimately finish fourth. For more information on Martin, please visit: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando...
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[@nicestuff8755]

Kenny Smith sounds very disrespectful here

[@masterflex2007]

Very 😂

[@masterflex2007]

He's just hating for no absolute reason

[@timboslice8559]

He called the whole nation of Spain amateurs like wtf!?? Spain was like the 2nd best national team behind the USA for awhile

[@rogervillas]

@@timboslice8559 and now is the 1st before USA 😉

[@johnpaul8938]

He’s just an uneducated black

[@futuresailorcr]

Kenny we know damn well you wouldn’t go at a pair of brothers like that. Smh

[@conflicto7575]

Rudy was the best dunker that year

[@jonthesinner]

Kenny smith disrespectful comments in 2024 brought me here

[@migueldevicentemarquez422]

Commentators were just straight up disrespectful to Rudy and to Spain

[@jzz9116]

What you expect from Americans ? They living in there own bubble

[@chosenone182]

@@jzz9116 woah...

[@RD-dd9ol]

It was all in good fun

[@clydecromey6933]

@@jzz9116 the bubble of freedom?

[@lockecole6220]

@@clydecromey6933 the bubble of burn loot murder

[@WallyZamwa]

I feel so sorry for Rudy everytime I'm watching this. Put some respeck on his name!

[@realmrpoopybutthole7587]

Rudy was right to go back to Spain to play for Madrid. He earns a lot of money out there and is well respected. Good for him.

[@ryanb7833]

Dude wtf that is not bad. Better than fucking Nate's hype dunks.

[@AgasiShizzle]

They're making sure that they don't hype up the foreigner. Iguodala literally did the same dunk with two hands and they gave him a 50. Much harder with one hand. So disrespectful!

[@_WESTSIDE_]

Fernandez was nice with it I used to love seeing him play

[@williambuckman8359]

Same here I was an oden fan but loved Rudy doing his thing

[@LeBreezy2324]

Kenny, "know it all", Smith 😂

[@ryanboyd36]

Kenny Smith: It’s not gonna get me out of my seat though. Zach Lavine could do the same dunk today and you would be screaming it’s over. Respect the dunk not the attempts man

[@warnamir7434]

Its a dunk contest, not practice

[@ryanboyd36]

He’s given more props before to a dunk that took the whole time to complete. I get what you mean but he has shown favoritism time and again is what I was pointing to

[@warnamir7434]

I believe that if Rudy would have made the first or second attempt, it would've had a different impact. But after seeing him fail so many times it just doesn't hit the same.

[@warnamir7434]

@@ryanboyd36 Kenny can be a dumbass tho, im not defending him, im defending his reaction to the dunk

[@ryanboyd36]

I feel ya. For me it’s just impressive people can even pull that off at all. And how much different the dunk contest is compared to now.

[@SimplyMAB]

Damn Kenny a hater

[@wavy2k]

Nice dunk Rudy !! I wish I could fly like that

[@chuchuchuchia]

Kenny was hating on Mac in 2023 somebody give this man a reality check

[@Jenbert0526]

He's also legendary action star in Philippines

[@gideonvincentgoudin7762]

Haha Loko

[@lolstfu2950]

lol pinoy humor down bad

[@ER_MAGO11_D_D10S]

Maquina Rudy!!! ❤️💛

[@spindakiwi1127]

First of all if u see some highlight of Pau he is an excellent passer I think he was passing a lot in Europe, having said that the comment was very disrespectful ,telling a whole country amateur because of a fancy pass

[@thatleftyjames2893]

It was clearly a bad decision to do a behind-the-back pass, made the time expire even when a pass wouldn't affect the dunk. On top of which the "amateur" comment was clearly a joke, they were being over the top and sarcastic. Lighten up

[@nicestuff8755]

The year before Paul and Rudy won silver medals in the Olympics giving a hard time to US who gold. Bunch of bitter comentarios disrespecting Spain’s Game.

[@janmichaelmaulit8567]

kenny “ugly ass” smith sounds so bitter. I bet rudy fernandez would beat him any dunk competition

[@ironicutopia99]

このダンク、とにかく凄かった！

[@basketballuniverse1738]

Palagi ko pinapanood pelikula nito noong kabataan ko ehh

[@tae-yunlee7658]

so underated! double standards. smh kenny

[@liquidfox6364]

Wow crazy revisiting this, Kenny would(hopefully) get destroyed for this kind of commentating now.

[@chuchuchuchia]

He just acted the same against Mac this year, dude needs to be called out

[@markosibarra5122]

@@chuchuchuchia can’t let the Whiteys outwork the Brothas, i bet deep inside he’s hoping the Heat would win in the Finals just because Denver’s best player is a white dude 😂 if there’s a perfect example of racial bias in NBA, Kenny Smith & Kendrick Perkins would be the perfect example 😂

[@timboslice8559]

Um maybe because him and Pau played on the Spanish national team dummy Kenny

[@tylerdurden7397]

"hEy kENny" #kiSs #MyAss 😘

[@bodyinlake]

Who’s here from My Team

[@lethalhydra5465]

Me

[@Paul-wu7xd]

"Martin' from the show..."

[@lugamois5424]

el bullying del comentarista asi de free

[@JongjongNarcos]

0:48 kenny was about to joke but decided to pull back 😅😂

[@ryanmchowell]

Bench warmer talking smack to the guy that almost beat the brakes off team USA. If it wasn't for kobe to bail out LeBron on getting his third straight bronze metal . Way to embarrass the guy , karma came back tho kenny the best player in the league today is Luka

[@darrellscottjr2251]

Lmfaoooo Kenny was never a bench warmer, averaged 12 in his career single season best was 17, Rudy never averaged more than 10

[@ryanmchowell]

@@darrellscottjr2251 Kenny was a starter or a role player? It's one or the other. And BTW it's a rhetorical question

[@scootahscoot9389]

“The amateurism of Spain” 😆 when Pao unnecessarily throwing behind back pass off backboard

[@IVnumber]

Obnoxious commentating. They should watch euroleague n could learn a thing or two...

[@Discipleofthelordandjesus]

There’s only a handful of euroleague players that are entertaining to watch .🤣😂 the worst nba team is more entertaining than the best euroleague team there’s level to basketball ☠️

[@paulavery7122]

@@Discipleofthelordandjesus hahah maybe 30 years ago. At the moment there are several euroleague teams that could make the playoffs. Tell me you don’t watch bball without telling me you don’t watch it

[@Discipleofthelordandjesus]

@@paulavery7122 How tf am gonna watch full euroleague games in America? We don’t even have the same tv provider or networks 🤣. Move on keep watching that 3rd world basketball.

[@Discipleofthelordandjesus]

@@paulavery7122 all your euroleague guys are over there for a reason 😳2nd tier talent they’d be in the nba and get paid like the nba if their talent was there😆

[@paulavery7122]

@@Discipleofthelordandjesus 3rd world basketball 🤣?? Where do you think most European and foreign players played and formed before arriving to the nba? Remember the best players rn in the NBA are foreigners. Better fundamentals, defense and tactics by far, NBA is all show. You’ll learn about real stuff when you grow older little grasshopper. And with that name I doubt you’re originally from the states 🤫

[@andreguerreroAG]

3:55 kttwo infinite crowd

[@key-g]

Nate Robinson was a clown of basketball. Don't know why they portrait him as a hidden superstar in video games.

[@sammyjankiss287]

Commentators the biggest haters

[@elok3]

Paul gasol bryan gahol

[@agustinjosegarcia196]

What a collection of non sense and disrespectful comments. Not the best night for Kenny showing how ignorant he was about every single detail of a great and more than worthy performance by Rudy

[@jeyzoh30]

Kinda racist lol

[@DiGrouch]

That Martin comment is so embarrasing

[@scootahscoot9389]

How they scoring something 9 when took eight tries Of course Nat was worse in 2007 w 50 tries in Houston; Iggy true 2007 champ

[@UN_NOTA]

from Spain... embarrassment

[@stanleycallahan4389]

WEAK

[@hyenalaughingmatter8103]

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