Is it Bud-in-jurrr or Bud-in-gerrrr?

Not that it matters by the time u learn it he'll be traded

 

I'm pretty sure that that is originally a German name.

So it should be Boo-ding-er

 

This reminds me of Deron William's rookie season where I kept thinking it's <De-Ron> instead of <Dar-en>.

Somehow I like Budin-Jerr much better..

 

Let's party.

frog 1: Bud ....Bud.... Bud.... Bud

Frog 2: ING

Frog 3: errr

 

Bill, Bull, Kevin, etc pronounce it "ger".

Name butcher-meister Clyde pronounces it "jer". That should be enough said.

 

Yah! Ees Chase Boo-dingerrrr!

I vas nevah a membah of zee Nazi party! We leeved in zee back.

 

Bull asked him how to pronounce it during a postgame, and he clearly stated BU-DING-GER.

 

His parents pronounce it differently too back in his Arizona days.

 

Unfortunately, you might not need to know how to pronounce his last name... I think he's going to get traded if a deal involving tmac happens.

I hope the Rockets keep him..........

 

My understanding (based on my recollection of him pronouncing his own name) is that it's a hard G (as in the words "tiger" or "finger"). It's not the soft G, which sounds more like a J when pronounced (it's not a soft G as in the words "merger" and "manger").

When you think "Budinger" think "tiger" or "finger" (hard G) and you'll always get it right.

 

Yes,he mentioned that in an in interview with JF on Rockets.Com.

 

I also think it's a German name, so I'm with you on the pronunciation.

 

About 4:50 into the video it is made clear that his name is pronounced Bud-ing-ger...emphasis on GRRR.


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I'm pretty sure this is wrong.

 

FWIW, in an article on Budinger in 2006 (focusing on his decision between pursuing basketball or Olympic volleyball), Sports Illustrated made it a point to try and get the pronunciation correct:

"It was such a tough decision," says Budinger (pronounced BUD-ing-grr, with a hard G in the last syllable).

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1114512/index.htm

 

I think back in those days you could get away with not actually going to class but still "passing" your classes. I swear i must roll my eyes at what he says at least 100 times every game he is on.....BRING BACK CALVIN MURPHY!!

 

Ok I think he is jerking us around and laughing about it LOL

I could SWEAR I have heard him in an interview saying it is JER .. and then other people say he has said it is GRR

And you can't go by what the interviewers say when they are talking to him, because he doesn't correct them either way.

This is going to end up being a Hakeem/Akeem thing, eventually he will let us all know definitively...

 

Honestly, I and most people I've heard talk about him switch between Ger and Jerr, at random.


Until I have to interview him or something, I will stick with that.