{"id":464588,"date":"2025-10-15T09:42:36","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T07:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=464588"},"modified":"2025-10-15T09:42:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T07:42:36","slug":"rudy-fernandez-in-2015-they-told-me-i-had-two-or-three-years-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/rudy-fernandez-in-2015-they-told-me-i-had-two-or-three-years-left\/","title":{"rendered":"Rudy Fern\u00e1ndez: In 2015 they told me I had two or three years left"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1036\" data-end=\"1205\">The Spanish icon enters the <strong data-start=\"1064\" data-end=\"1080\">Hall of Fame<\/strong> one year after retirement: <strong data-start=\"1108\" data-end=\"1124\">six Olympics<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"1126\" data-end=\"1139\">11 medals<\/strong>, central to Spain\u2019s golden age and <strong data-start=\"1175\" data-end=\"1192\">Real Madrid\u2019s<\/strong> dominance.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1207\" data-end=\"1530\">At 40, <strong data-start=\"1214\" data-end=\"1232\">Rudy Fern\u00e1ndez<\/strong> reflects on <strong data-start=\"1245\" data-end=\"1263\">20 ACB seasons<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1268\" data-end=\"1284\">4 in the NBA<\/strong>: \u201cBack surgeries in <strong data-start=\"1305\" data-end=\"1313\">2015<\/strong> were a turning point\u2014<strong data-start=\"1335\" data-end=\"1362\">two or three years left<\/strong>, they said. I rebuilt my game, diet and mindset.\u201d First male player at <strong data-start=\"1434\" data-end=\"1450\">six Olympics<\/strong> (two silvers, one bronze), <strong data-start=\"1478\" data-end=\"1496\">two World Cups<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1501\" data-end=\"1520\">four EuroBasket<\/strong> titles.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1532\" data-end=\"1797\">From <strong data-start=\"1537\" data-end=\"1549\">Joventut<\/strong> to glory with <strong data-start=\"1564\" data-end=\"1579\">Real Madrid<\/strong>: \u201cEarly <strong data-start=\"1588\" data-end=\"1602\">EuroLeague<\/strong> finals taught us how to win.\u201d On teammates: \u201cThe best I\u2019ve shared a locker room with? <strong data-start=\"1689\" data-end=\"1704\">Luka Don\u010di\u0107<\/strong>.\u201d His legacy: \u201cIt\u2019s about the <strong data-start=\"1735\" data-end=\"1743\">team<\/strong>\u2014build it <strong data-start=\"1753\" data-end=\"1771\">brick by brick<\/strong> until the wall stands.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1799\" data-end=\"1854\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/as.com\/baloncesto\/mas_baloncesto\/rudy-en-2015-me-dijeron-que-me-quedaban-dos-o-tres-anos-de-carrera-f202510-n\/\"><em data-start=\"1799\" data-end=\"1811\">Source: AS<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Spanish icon enters the Hall of Fame one year after retirement<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":400881,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[305,199,303],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-464588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acb","category-euroleague","category-spain"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/08\/ND_RUDY_1257037993_1.webp","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464588"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=464588"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=464588"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=464588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}