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dwightjaynes.com - 9/5/2008

Life in America is going to amaze Rudy Fernandez

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There’s an interview on a Spanish site, Marca.com , with Rudy Fernandez from the NBA rookie orientation program. My Spanish is so rusty at this point of my life that I couldn’t do much with it. Fortunately, there are numerous websites out there that will roughly translate the story. Remember, this is rough, but there’s a certain charm in this translation that I can’t resist: “Here there is ...

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