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This created further opportunity to showcase his talents for game day entertainment at professional sporting events around the nation.

During that performance, he had a better shooting percentage than three of the starting players of the opposing Clippers team. īuddy displayed his skills at the NBA when he appeared during halftime at a Laker game on Christmas Day in 1991. Buddy appeared three times on Late Night and David Letterman's next show, Late Show with David Letterman. He then gained further fame bouncing a basketball off his muzzle and into a basketball hoop on the 'Stupid Pet Tricks' segment of Late Night with David Letterman. His first appearance was on America's Funniest Home Videos. Di Cicco revealed that Buddy tried to bite the ball, but its slipperiness, enhanced by saliva or more efficiently by olive oil, would propel it from his mouth. Buddy's most eagerly awaited sport was basketball. Di Cicco adopted the disheveled Golden Retriever and brought him home to San Diego, California, where he trained the dog in the sports of basketball, baseball, football, soccer, and hockey. He was best known for playing the title role in the film Air Bud.īuddy was found by Kevin Kevin di Cicco as a stray dog in the Sierra Nevada in the summer of 1989.

Buddy (Ma– February 10, 1998) was a Golden Retriever dog actor.

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