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bballsparkin wrote:

Sohogrand wrote:

SDM wrote:There are no lines in trash talk, there is no definitive "this is too much" moment. It's all in the eye of the beholder.

amen. it seems that a lot of grown men want to fight on the sensitivity battleground.. pro sports is not the place for thin skin, or mentally weak ppl

Why not? It happens in hockey. Football to a degree. KG is free to say whatever he wants. Melo can punch him in the face and deal with the repercussions. What's cool or no big deal to some people is the opposite to others. When people say punk ass comments a punch in the face is a distinct possibility. On the courts or on the streets.

tracey_nice wrote:and if the difference is btwn 'physical'/'emotional' re: what kg does vs what bowen does, u guys need to realize it is that attitude that has stigmatized mental health in this country. #anxietytrooper

J Dilla wrote:You might hate KG for doing what he does, but getting into players heads works really well.

Abba Zabba wrote:Hard Foul.

In every sport there's the rules and there's the "way the game is played": an understanding of what is allowable and not amongst the players. The same applies in every culture and society, there's law and there is honour/ethos. So to SDM telling me that nothing is off limits I don't know how he can expect me to believe he knows the code that exists amongst NBA players that it consists of no code at all. That would be a major break from all human behaviour everywhere on the planet for the last 5 thousand years. A genuinely extraordinary circumstance.

Garnett reminds me of Sean Avery in that he is a pest who steps over the line of acceptable behaviour amongst players but an effective one. The difference is the NHL has changed rules to protect the ethos of the game from Avery when he has gone to far while the NBA has coddled Garnett while extolling his "passion".

I've never understood why you don't see more settling the score type hard fouls in the NBA. The other day Sefalosha threw Jose to the ground and later we let him go straight to the basket instead of using the opportunity to drive the point home.

I believe the NBA, more than any other professional sport keeps a tight lid on this stuff as it fears the bad image of aggressive black youths being streamed into middle america's living room. Not quite racist but a behaviour based on the expected racism of your market. So the policing yourself aspect gets taken out of the game while it is understood as inherent to baseball, hockey, and to a lesser degree football. What do you get? The eye sore that is Garnett's behaviour which the NBA tacitly condones like the over indulgent parents of a spoiled child while coming down hard on any attempt by players to enforce a standard of behaviour amongst themselves.

Danchan wrote:
yea but he didn't. Fake tough guy. either ignore it or retaliate on the spot, or wait till he's alone. Dont do that "hold me back guys I am going to their team bus BS" then cry to the media about how the other guy crossed the line.
Drama queen.

deck wrote:I can't take KG seriously after the whole "Anything is Possible!!!" thing

The guy is a caricature of himself.

Crazy_NBA_Fan wrote:

deck wrote:I can't take KG seriously after the whole "Anything is Possible!!!" thing

The guy is a caricature of himself.

This sounds unfamiliar, care to explain?

kmatrixg wrote:Wouldn't that be a complement? Calling his wife a carmel/honey treat? And saying Happy Mother's Day to TD, isn't that paying respect?

Point is, you can construe everything KG says (outside the supposed 'cancer patient' remark), that's the beauty of his trash talk - it walks the line between being a smart ass and being cruel.

Said Anthony: "Nothing happened for me to be suspended," adding, "I just wanted to know what was being said, where was all that coming from. Whatever was being said on the basketball court, where was it coming from?"

"I just wanted to know - you ****in' my wife?!"

LLJ wrote:

Crazy_NBA_Fan wrote:

deck wrote:I can't take KG seriously after the whole "Anything is Possible!!!" thing

The guy is a caricature of himself.

This sounds unfamiliar, care to explain?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wcz_kDCBTBk[/youtube]

Crazy_NBA_Fan wrote:
LOL the guy just won the Championship. He was just overwhelmed, anything could have come out of that guy's mouth at that moment. People forget this is the same KG who couldn't win on his own in Minnesota in the playoffs except for that 1 season when Cassell and Sprewell helped him.