Can Rudy Wear a "Rudy" jersey...

Max Powerr · Post #1 » by **Max Powerr** » Wed Jul 9, 2008 6:24 pm

Or does it have to say Fernandez on the back?

shock103 · Post #2 » by **shock103** » Wed Jul 9, 2008 6:29 pm

either way he will still be raw.... what number do you think him and bayless will go with?

Max Powerr · Post #3 » by **Max Powerr** » Wed Jul 9, 2008 6:33 pm

Rudy will be #5 still, and Bayless will be 0. I always dig players who wear 0, except Arenas.

shock103 · Post #4 » by **shock103** » Wed Jul 9, 2008 6:34 pm

if bayless wears 0 i fear the legacy of taurean green will be tarnished

sketchturntable · Post #5 » by **sketchturntable** » Wed Jul 9, 2008 7:17 pm

i hope not...since i just bought a red Fernandez jersey.

they are pimping his "Fernandez" jersey on blazers.com so he wont wear a "Rudy" jersey

Red Robot · Post #6 » by **Red Robot** » Wed Jul 9, 2008 7:34 pm

Not unless he's playing in the XFL.

Post #7 » by **Billy** » Wed Jul 9, 2008 7:35 pm

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Malapropism · Post #8 » by **Malapropism** » Wed Jul 9, 2008 7:42 pm

Bayless will wear 4 right?

jeffhardyfan52 · Post #9 » by **jeffhardyfan52** » Wed Jul 9, 2008 7:57 pm

Why would he have "Rudy" on the back of his jersey? as any one had there first name on there jersey int he nba?

Bucky O'Hare · Post #10 » by **Bucky O'Hare** » Wed Jul 9, 2008 8:00 pm

I thought this was about Rudy Gay not wanting the word "Gay" on the back of his jersey. I forgot what forum I was at. :oops:

jbl75 · Post #11 » by **jbl75** » Wed Jul 9, 2008 8:26 pm

Yao and Yi, but thats because they are chinese. Chinese have their last names first and their first names last i believe.

Yadadimean · Post #12 » by **Yadadimean** » Wed Jul 9, 2008 8:34 pm

jeffhardyfan52 wrote:Why would he have "Rudy" on the back of his jersey? as any one had there first name on there jersey int he nba?

Isaiah Thomas had his whole name on the back of his jersey one year.

kinch · Post #13 » by **kinch** » Wed Jul 9, 2008 8:40 pm

jeffhardyfan52 wrote:Why would he have "Rudy" on the back of his jersey? as any one had there first name on there jersey int he nba?

It's a semi-common thing for Spanish, Portugese or Latin American soccer players to go by their first name, probably because many players share the same surname. It has the effect of making the athlete resemble a child, which I think is part of their relationship to the athlete, that the athlete is a prodigious child. Think of Pele.

haschel cedricson · Post #14 » by **haschel cedricson** » Wed Jul 9, 2008 9:17 pm

I thought that was just Brazilians.

Clipsz 4 Life · Post #15 » by **Tim Lehrbach** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 8:55 am

Yadadimean wrote:
jeffhardyfan52 wrote:Why would he have "Rudy" on the back of his jersey? as any one had there first name on there jersey int he nba?

Isaiah Thomas had his whole name on the back of his jersey one year.

I had forgotten about that. The back of his jersey looked like a big mess. Hilarious.

Post #16 » by **mojomarc** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 2:55 pm

jbl75 wrote:Yao and Yi, but thats because they are chinese. Chinese have their last names first and their first names last i believe.

Depends on where they're from, but in general it's true that the surname comes first in Chinese. Yao's given name is "Ming," not "Yao." Yi's given name is "Jianlian," not "Yi." Ha's given name was "Seung-jin," not "Ha," so it applies frequently to Koreans as well. The big exception in pro sports is Ichiro Suzuki, where in Japan he goes by Suzuki Ichiro.

jhern87 · Post #17 » by **jhern87** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 4:14 pm

I see what you're getting at. Tho, in Spain Rudy wore Rudy on the back of his jersey? I wonder what he would prefer?

The Emcee · Post #18 » by **The Emcee** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 7:21 pm

Nene (Hilario) has just his first name, but I think he may have dropped his last name altogether.

frangs · Post #19 » by **frangs** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 9:14 pm

The point, at least in Spain, is this: Fernández on a jersey sounds ridiculous.
Fernández is like Smith in USA. And calling someone Fernández, Pérez, García, etc.. (all very common surnames) sounds like how office workers used to call each other 30 years ago in the office. Sounds like a joke.
That's why, for example, Raúl González (famous soccer player for Real Madrid) has Raúl on his jersey.
When the surname is not common, like for example, Gasol, you can use it and it doesnt sound weird like Fernandez, Perez. etc...

Now I was thinking of Raül López who played like two or three years for Utah and he had López on his jersey (López is even more common than Fernández).

jhern87 · Post #20 » by **jhern87** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 9:43 pm

frangs wrote:The point, at least in Spain, is this: Fernández on a jersey sounds ridiculous.
Fernández is like Smith in USA. And calling someone Fernández, Pérez, García, etc.. (all very common surnames) sounds like how office workers used to call each other 30 years ago in the office. Sounds like a joke.
That's why, for example, Raúl González (famous soccer player for Real Madrid) has Raúl on his jersey.
When the surname is not common, like for example, Gasol, you can use it and it doesnt sound weird like Fernandez, Perez. etc...

Now I was thinking of Raül López who played like two or three years for Utah and he had López on his jersey (López is even more common than Fernández).

How common a name is isn't very important tho. How common is Suing Jin? or Jian Lian? I think it's honestly about player prefference. If they insist on their first names then I doubt a team would deny them the request. That all being said, I think he wears Fernandez. He wants to embrace the NBA game and last name on the jersey id s part of it.