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• Eboy Posted: Jan.14 at 2:22 pm
  You’ve got to be fu*king kidding me, right? There’s not enough words to describe how incredibly fu*king ghey and asinine this is. Oh wait…….this was funny somehow, right?
  Imagine if Lebron did this…… Oh f*ck Mr. Menudo and his girlish figure. Good work, Lang.

• Eboy Posted: Jan.14 at 2:26 pm
  If he was that accurate with his jumpshot….he might actually be worth a top 10 pick.

• Tarzan Cooper Posted: Jan.14 at 2:29 pm
  that was just awful, and he better quit eating at mcobese if he wants to have an impact in the nba.

• Anton Posted: Jan.14 at 2:31 pm
  white guys chest bumping doesn’t work. ask Vujacic

• Jackie Moon Posted: Jan.14 at 2:35 pm
  I thought the headline meant something completely different.

• hamberguesa Posted: Jan.14 at 2:36 pm
  Increible! Stupendo! Ricky Rubio! Jajajaja! Uh, no.

• Lang Whitaker Posted: Jan.14 at 2:38 pm
  @Eboy: I looked for the Chris Quinn viral video but couldn’t find it…

• TADOne Posted: Jan.14 at 2:38 pm
  Ummmm………yeah.

• Eboy Posted: Jan.14 at 2:39 pm
  Cute, fuc*er.

• Ryne Nelson Posted: Jan.14 at 2:43 pm
  You all shouldn’t talk. Let me know when Bron makes a commercial doing behind the back passes and flip dunks while at church…oh wait.

• Eboy Posted: Jan.14 at 2:45 pm
  Don’t you have some game notes from Myles to post, Rynocerous?

• Tom Posted: Jan.14 at 2:46 pm
  I wonder if this is camera tricks like that lebron powerade commercial

• Eboy Posted: Jan.14 at 2:48 pm
  Lang’s just jealous. http://orangehoops.files.wordpress.com/2006/12/chris-quinn-hobbit.jpg

• Saami Posted: Jan.14 at 2:51 pm
  At the start there it kinda looks like hes holding a jonnie if your reading the todays latest sidebar as it loads…

• underdog Posted: Jan.14 at 3:02 pm
  Pathetic. But I’m sure Ricky earned a good amount of money with this ad. So I understand the financial reasons, but c’mon. This sh- looks bad. (I don’t speak Spanish at all, so maybe for Spanish speakers this ad is funny or entertaining, but for some reason I don’t think so.)

• Justin Adler Posted: Jan.14 at 3:32 pm
  este es el video mas increible que he visto en todo mi vida. f**k an aston martin.

• Krishan Posted: Jan.14 at 3:43 pm
  Ahahaha this was so godd*amn awful

• Cordeazy Posted: Jan.14 at 4:22 pm
  So horrible its amazing! how did this happen? who told him this was cool? why are his friends so easily amazed?

• JoeMaMa Posted: Jan.14 at 4:41 pm
  He’s a kid.
  I thought it was silly. But the way everyone else is talking, I feel like he killed all your families.
  And this is coming from an AdBusters reading, vegan.
  Let him and his hermanos enjoy some McDonalidos.

• overtime Posted: Jan.14 at 4:53 pm
  If thats real its absolutely amazing, cant wait for this guy to get to the league.
  And all you guys saying this is pathetic…wow an 18 year old having fun with his m8s, that really is pathetic…cynics

• vmcb Posted: Jan.14 at 4:57 pm
  Eboy’s just jealous because has hasn’t had that much fun since 2006.

• toney blare Posted: Jan.14 at 5:01 pm
  is this realllly Spanish? where’s all the racist chants and slant eye jokes?

• Allenp Posted: Jan.14 at 5:14 pm
  Wait, that was a McDonald’s commercial? Interesting. This kid must be huge over there if he’s advertising for McDonalds. Strangely, I don’t see any college folks complaining that his life has been shortchanged because he won’t have the American college experience.
  Anyway, if I didn’t already know Rubio was a ballplayer, I would never guess it by looking at him. He looks very ordinary.

• Allenp Posted: Jan.14 at 5:18 pm
  And Toney Blare is funny.

• that dude Posted: Jan.14 at 5:21 pm
  High School Musical 4?

• RayRayJr Posted: Jan.14 at 5:23 pm
  Yeah he’s just a kid having fun in this. Everyone calm down. Very young but is gonna b sick someday. Very looooong McDs commercial though

• RV Posted: Jan.14 at 6:00 pm
  i don’t understand the hate towrds the video, it’s a different culture, what’s amusing, funny, or interesting to them may not be the same for Americans. Also, it’s a commercial basically saying u can buy a burger for that much, so i guess they needed a gimmick involving the coin….

• RV Posted: Jan.14 at 6:02 pm
  one thing i don’t get, it sounds like they’re saying “Coño” at times, which i believe is vulgar even in Spain..so it would be weird hearing that in a commercial unless they’re open about profanity in Spain, any spaniards that can clear this up?

• Joel O's Posted: Jan.14 at 6:21 pm
  Hmmmmph. The video was pretty funny. But I was expecting something remotely related to basketball. Great vid if he was trying to intern for David Blaine or Criss Angel, but yeah, was expecting some basketball-related sleight of hand.

• Joel O's Posted: Jan.14 at 6:22 pm
  I mean they coulda gone and done something like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oACRt-Qp-s between him and Rudy Fernandez. Wouldn’t have been thaat original but hey, it would at least be more relevant.

• Coconut Posted: Jan.14 at 6:35 pm
  Everyone in Europe is open about profanity :p no beeped out words on television… EVER! gotta love that. About the video, I like that he looks like a regular kid/young man having fun with his friends. The hype doesn’t seem to have gone to his head. I think some guys here are hating for no real reason.

• Marcel Mutoni Posted: Jan.14 at 7:57 pm
  wait, when did ricky become ‘our guy’? i didn’t sign up for this.

• hamberguesa Posted: Jan.14 at 8:01 pm
  Actually, I think we’re hating because it’s a really dorky commercial.

• Dacre Posted: Jan.14 at 8:35 pm
  As a side point I know the guy that did work on the digital production on this commercial, like with the coin through the net looking up and such.
  I felt like a cross between Moose and nbk bragging about crappness.

• Moose Posted: Jan.14 at 8:49 pm
  Dacre, I’m not offended and won’t be by anything you’ll say . . . but I don’t understand the reference . . . may you explain, please?

• Will Lee Posted: Jan.14 at 9:03 pm
  ong 9 ads

• rob stewart Posted: Jan.15 at 12:11 am
  So now I can add Rubio along with Jordan and Dwight Howard to a list of guys who are supposed to make me think they actually eat at Mcdonald’s as premiere athletes. Yeah right

• Kevin Posted: Jan.15 at 12:54 am
  let a guy make his money.. i don’t give a flyin f*ck how corny this is if he can ball, and neither should you. so let’s just see if he can play before you start talking sh*t

• jrp14 Posted: Jan.15 at 12:54 am
  Jordan use to say he ate McDonalds religiously as a rookie

• 007 Posted: Jan.15 at 2:05 am
  d world does not revolve around 1 country.

• KA Posted: Jan.15 at 4:22 am
  not american. not spanish. dont need to be either to know that was hella lame. nice ball player tho but stuff like this for some reason is convincing me that rudy > ricky.

• Alan Posted: Jan.15 at 4:49 am
  I hope he never makes the NBA, so I can enjoy him here. U yankees think ur sh*t doesn’t smell. It’s OK with me. Keep on saying bad things about players u haven’t even seen in your life and I’ll keep suporting (good) Spanish players. BTW is great to have Navarro back. Just because he ain’t black he didn’t had a real chance to be the real leader he is in the NBA. World Camps baby. Cheers

• Coconut Posted: Jan.15 at 6:07 am
  Couple of years ago, first European to go nr 1 in the draft. Then first European MVP. And Spain is still the world champion and played well against the redeem team in the olympic finals… Can’t denie that we’re catching up. Go Ricky!

• Z Posted: Jan.15 at 9:00 am
  Some of you guys got that player hater syndrome. The ad is lame, this has nothing to do with his game or his projection as an NBA player. ”If I don’t like, then I don’t like it, that don’t mean that I’m hating” — Common

• jon Posted: Jan.15 at 9:23 am
  Ya’ll are trippin. The commercial is OBVIOUSLY inspired by these two HUGE viral vids. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-prfAENSh2k
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pShf2VuAu_Q

• SLAM ONLINE | Posted: Jan.15 at 9:24 am
  [...] Rubio Goes Viral [...]

• Jake Posted: Jan.15 at 9:33 am
  I’d put money on the fact that everyone sayin how much this sucks has done something far more lame than this and laughed hysterically. Have some fun kids.

• Allenp Posted: Jan.15 at 11:04 am
  Did anybody catch Alan’s comment that Navarro failed because he wasn’t black?
  Wow.
  I thought it was because he played absolutely no defense and couldn’t take most quality guards off the dribble.
  But, now I know it was that damn bias towards black men.

• jay Posted: Jan.15 at 11:26 am
  @ Eboy: Stop hating on Ricky, you’ll get a chance to do that soon enough!

• toney blare Posted: Jan.15 at 12:29 pm
  alan–i caught it. actually, i predicted it!

• Jackie Moon Posted: Jan.15 at 12:40 pm
  Allenp - I don’t like your reasoning. That implies that the NBA discriminates based on your skills.

• magictrickz Posted: Jan.15 at 1:45 pm
  i thought it was impressive,and the chest bumping may be in a humorous way

• Mendel Posted: Jan.15 at 3:11 pm
  This rocked!!!

• Harlem_World Posted: Jan.15 at 3:15 pm
  There are a lot of racists in Spain. There are a lot of racists in America. There are a lot of racists in Germany. There are a lot of racists in Italy. There are a lot of racists in…and in other news, it was just reported the world is actually not flat.

• Ben Osborne Posted: Jan.15 at 3:23 pm
  Lang is to Ricky as Ryan is to LeBron.

• David Posted: Jan.15 at 7:12 pm
  I bet Lang’s working on an article right now where he subtly tells McDonalds that he knew about Ricky years before and that they’re not as original as they think they are.

• KobeWearsAPurpleThong Posted: Jan.15 at 8:28 pm
  Mucho talento..NOT

• what Posted: Jan.15 at 8:56 pm
  Euros who think their league is comparable to the NBA are funny. Pathetic, but funny.

• t2c.wah Posted: Jan.16 at 7:41 am
  Don’t hate, you, “yankee de m***da” (Hugo Chavez speech)!
  This kid will soon be paid in US$ & you’ll enjoy his game & personality on a daily basis.

• Coconut Posted: Jan.16 at 10:53 am
  @ what
  If you’re referring to my comment earlier, I wouldn’t dare to even suggest that European leagues are at the same level as the nba that’s why I follow the NBA instead of European basketball. I’m just cheering on European players in the NBA because they’re underdogs coming in.

• Josh D Posted: Jan.16 at 1:37 pm
  That was sick!Guess that shows how good at ball handling he is, guess it is somehow funny in spanish, what he doing advertising McDonalds though, when he’s a proffesional athlete?
  He’ll go 1 or 2 on draft night

• Josh D Posted: Jan.16 at 1:41 pm
  errr…AllenP you spelt Tony Blair wrong

• Allenp Posted: Jan.17 at 9:06 pm
  Josh
  No I didn’t.

• MemphisTIGER Posted: Jan.18 at 8:59 am
  Man I love seeing my Grizzlies future PG!

• phildo Posted: Jan.18 at 3:34 pm
  @Lang, off Topic but there are news about one of your other favorite “athletes”:
  http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/blog/the_dagger/post/Finally-an-answer-to-Whatever-happened-to-Kevi?urn=ncaab,134910

• Gerard Himself Posted: Jan.18 at 4:51 pm
  terrible video, and man oh man does Ricky look young. I don’t know what I mean by that, but he’s such a kid. Stay in Spain for another year Ricky.

• Tanman Posted: Jan.19 at 2:53 pm
  Ricky is the man, and I highly rate him as a baller. But this ad is really weak. Not so much a reflection on him…more on the agency and producers who came up with it and made it.

• the rod Posted: Jan.19 at 3:04 pm
  De Puta Madre!

• Mo Charlo Posted: Jan.20 at 5:50 pm
  Marcel made me laugh out loud.

• randy thompson Posted: Feb.3 at 7:59 am
  Kids being kids………..wonderful !!!!

• O'Rion Posted: Feb.7 at 9:31 am
  I really love watching Ricky Rubio play basketball, but that was really lame even if he actually really did those things without the use of digital retouching.

• CHE Posted: Feb.16 at 2:04 pm
  Yea this commercial is weak but that nucca got game. I don’t care what any of yall say Rubio got game.

• Weekly Assists (01/16/2009) – The No-Look Pass Posted: Aug.11 at 11:23 pm
  [...] *Ricky Rubio Goes Viral: Lang Whitaker of SLAM posts the Spanish baller doing a little viral advertising through YouTube. I thought it was… interesting. [...]