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Yeah someone wanted the rookies to meet KG and he was like "F yo rookies".
Manu punking him was so satisfying.
Yeah someone wanted the rookies to meet KG and he was like "F yo rookies".
Manu punking him was so satisfying.
How does Garnett of all people mock someone for having a bald head is what I want to know...
it's all said in jest. when you're playing a game on the street, you do what what you have to do to win. it's up to the other player to shut the other guy up by his game or by talking trash back, or both. apparently, Villanueva thinks that the best way to retaliate is by posting the dialogue, which actually just makes him look like a pussy.
Garnett is stupid and a coward
is getting heated. haha kg!
KGDaBeast
@George_Hill3 U Still Respect KG Tho right??
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@KGDaBeast no not at all
kg thinks people gonna keep putting up with his bs just cause he's some bball player making millions. haha!
Garnett’s bully act goes too far
By Adrian Wojnarowski, Yahoo! Sports 2 hours, 2 minutes ago
Maurice Lucas had come from a time in the NBA when a man with the act and mouth of Kevin Garnett(notes) had to back it up with his fists. He was paid to take on the biggest, strongest player in the sport, protect the superstars. Lucas never walked onto the floor and eyed the most vulnerable and frightened foe. He picked out the biggest bleeping guy, started on him, and no one ever had reason to doubt his ferocity.
Here was a “cancer patient,” as apparently K.G. likes to call them. Lucas died this week. He was 58 and lost his life to bladder cancer. Apparently, Garnett honored that memory with the mocking of the Detroit Pistons’ bald forward, Charlie Villanueva(notes), on Tuesday night. Garnett’s always gone too far, but never like this. Never this cruel, this twisted.
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Pistons forward Charlie Villanueva says Kevin Garnett called him a "cancer patient."
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“K.G. called me a cancer patient,” Villanueva tweeted on Wednesday morning. “…K.G. talks a lot of crap. He’s [probably] never been in a fight. I would love to get in a ring with him. I will expose him.”
[Photos: More of Charlie Villanueva]
Yahoo! Sports sought a response from the Celtics on the charge, but the organization hasn’t responded. With the way the NBA throws around fines and suspensions, the days when Villanueva could’ve handled the matter on the floor are long gone. This is a truth that’s never been lost on Garnett. Trash talk goes back forever in the NBA, gets deep, personal, and yet this was a different kind of affront. The Pistons are 0-4 and Villanueva has done little to earn the $35 million contract delivered him a year ago. To say Charlie V. should shut up, win a game and stop tweeting, well, that’s a different discussion.
This is about Garnett, as it should’ve been long ago with his bully act. Here’s the thing: There are few more complex characters in the NBA. K.G. is a fantastic teammate, a leader, the hardest-working man in the gymnasium. He cares about winning, cares deeply, and the success his time with the Celtics has brought him has become a precious part of his legacy. He’s so smart, so calculating, that it remains a conundrum why he has always gone to such lengths to be a needlessly vicious bully.
For years, he’s gone after smaller, younger players. He never goes after tough guys. Never. For some reason, he reveled in going out of his way to abuse European players. So many young Euros grew up idolizing him, loved the range of his versatility at 7 feet, only to have images of him shattered with cheap shots and trash talk on the floor. A few days ago, this happened to the Knicks’ Timofey Mozgov(notes). It happens all the time. Pau Gasol(notes). Jose Calderon(notes). The list is long and the act is tired.
So much is said on the floor, but this hits people in a different way. Cancer victim? Villanueva has a condition called alopecia universalis, which results in hair loss. Villanueva’s always taken the time to meet and talk with kids who share the condition, and has listened to their stories of getting teased with those kinds of cutting words. Garnett is too old for this, too smart.
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Nevertheless, it’s stained his legacy. This one promises to chase him into retirement. Beyond that of an MVP and an NBA champion, Garnett has gone to inexplicable lengths to craft a parallel legacy: a vicious bully, a cold and cruel jerk.
For all the instances of Garnett’s bullying available on YouTube, those two words – “cancer patient” – will never go away. This is the one that people will remember, the stain that’ll be hardest to wash away. Garnett’s 34 years old, and shamefully a man too smart – too principled in a lot of ways – to act like this. Only, he’s done it for years, and it’s now a bigger part of his legacy than an old Boston Celtics champion will want to believe.
The NBA lost one of its true tough guys this week, a cancer patient named Maurice Lucas. He came out of a different time in the NBA, and never talked like Kevin Garnett. There was never a need. He had to back it up, the way K.G. never has and never will. The true tough guys never have to tell you about it.
Your point would be a decent one if KG needed to do that in order for the Celtics to beat the Pistons. As it was, what was the purpose of KG making the insults late in the fourth quarter of a 20+ point blowout win? To get in Charlie's head? To get a compe ive advantage? To ensure the Celtics win by 23 points instead of 21 points? There was no compe ion reason. KG is just a bag.
Any chance the NBA suspend him 1-2 games for such a thing?
Would be at least finally an action for such crossing the line
K.G. is a fantastic teammate (no), a leader (no), the hardest-working man in the gymnasium. He cares about winning, cares deeply, and the success his time with the Celtics has brought him has become a precious part of his legacy. He’s so smart ( no), so calculating, that it remains a conundrum why he has always gone to such lengths to be a needlessly vicious bully.
Denver Nuggets coach George Karl, who has battled cancer, responds to alleged cancer-related trash talk by Boston Celtics forward Kevin Garnett, toDetroit Pistons forward Charlie Villanueva. Posted by Ben Golliver.
Denver Nuggets head coach George Karl has been through a lot this year. Karl was diagnosed with throat cancer and underwent grueling treatment for the disease that forced him from the bench during the stretch run and the playoffs.
The details of his treatment, as do ented by ESPN's Rick Reilly, who shadowed Karl for a day, are incredibly difficult to read.
With only three of his torturous six weeks of treatment done, and the inside of his mouth looking like he just took 100 bites out of a lava-hot pizza slice, and his head throbbing and his eyes hollow, Karl looks like a guy who should be on a stretcher, not an NBA bench."George, this is only going to get harder," a nurse tells him. "You're not going to feel like working." Clearly, she's never met George Karl.Suddenly, the huge gray machine whirs like a giant Transformer, turning sideways, first this side, then that, as though it's trying to decide how to eat him. Then it zaps his throat and neck lymph nodes, ravaging them. It gives him a radish-red rash that's covering his face, chest and back. I know. He shows me. He shows me many things I don't want to see. He's doing it because he wants people to know exactly what it's like. Wants to take the fear and mystery out of it for people.While Karl had trouble speaking and watched his Nuggets bomb out in the first round of the playoffs to the Utah Jazz, he maintained his commitment to returning to the bench throughout the summer, and he made it back. His Nuggets currently sit at 2-1 and, while embroiled by Carmelo Anthony's ongoing drama, things could be a lot worse.That brings us to Tuesday night, when Detroit Pistons forward Charlie Villanueva posted a number of messages on Twitter, stating that Boston Celtics forward Kevin Garnett called him a "cancer patient" during Tuesday night's game between the Pistons and the Celtics. Villanueva suffers from a condition called alopecia universalis, which has rendered him hairless. Alopecia is not cancer, so Villanueva's baldness is no more similar to someone who has undergone radiation treatments than it is to someone that simply has male pattern baldness.
Clearly, Garnett's alleged statement was not only medically inaccurate, it was also way over the line of common decency, even by NBA trash talking standards.
You probably wouldn't be surprised at the level of vitriol during heated exchanges on the hardwood -- it's astonishing how many claims are made regarding opponents interacting sexually with other people's mothers -- but there are limits. Racist comments, references to the Holocaust and cancer or other life-threatening disease talk are rightfully still off-limits, even given the compe ive, charged atmosphere of an NBA game.
The NBA existence isn't like everyday "real life," but it's not completely divorced from reality either.
And that goes for the pain of cancer, given that just about everyone has either dealt with the disease personally or through a family member or friend. In that vein, Benjamin Hochman of the Denver Post sought Karl's response to Garnett's taunts today. Here's what Karl had to say.
“My initial response is – it’s disappointing and crossing the line. I don’t know if cancer is an epidemic in our country, but we accept it as a problem and it’s a very dangerous part of life for everybody. Making fun of it, that’s part of (some people’s) sarcastic side of trash talk. … Sometimes, responsibility comes from knowing when to argue when not to – when to cross the line and when not to cross the line. So philosophically, if Kevin and I were close friends, I’d probably call him up and say, ‘I don’t think that’s right (what you said).’ But I also believe that compe ion makes us do things when we don’t have our total mental morality in line. We act like children at times, even coaches.”While a generally accepted code of silence among NBA players (what happens on the court, stays on the court) was broken by Villanueva, his online outburst is understandable. As for Garnett? There's no defending his alleged statements, not as an attempt to gain a compe ive edge, not as "just part of the game."
On this one, Garnett is not pushing the envelope like he has many times during his career, he's way off the ethical cliff. And it shouldn't take a phone call from Karl to help him understand that.
What an insufferable ing asshole. Hopefully this finally puts an end to the ridiculous media love affair with him.
On the other hand, Villanueva tweeting about it makes it a bigger issue than it probably should be and only draws more attention to his condition and those who share it.
When playing in Toronto, Matt Bonner fouled KG hard
I<m sure KG called him a basketball cancer patient
http://espn.go.com/blog/boston/celti...-on-villanueva
Kevin Garnett on Wednesday afternoon responding to allegations by Charlie Villanueva that KG called him a "cancer patient" during last night's game. Here's the statement from Garnett:
“I am aware there was a major miscommunication regarding something I said on the court last night. My comment to Charlie Villanueva was in fact ‘You are cancerous to your team and our league.’ I would never be insensitive to the brave struggle that cancer patients endure. I have lost loved ones to this deadly disease and have a family member currently undergoing treatment. I would never say anything that distasteful. The game of life is far bigger than the game of basketball.”
http://espn.go.com/blog/boston/celti...-on-villanueva
Kevin Garnett on Wednesday afternoon responding to allegations by Charlie Villanueva that KG called him a "cancer patient" during last night's game. Here's the statement from Garnett:
“I am aware there was a major miscommunication regarding something I said on the court last night. My comment to Charlie Villanueva was in fact ‘You are cancerous to your team and our league.’ I would never be insensitive to the brave struggle that cancer patients endure. I have lost loved ones to this deadly disease and have a family member currently undergoing treatment. I would never say anything that distasteful. The game of life is far bigger than the game of basketball.”
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Garnett: "I did not say he has AIDS. I merely told him he aids and abets the creation of negative stereotypes about noble NBA players."
KG: I didn't call him a . I said he's just a fad, as in a short term but passing fancy that won't last. I would never begrudge those of the sexual persuasion. I've lost family members to that dreaded gay disease.
I didn't know they were up by twenty. yeah there's no point in doing what he did
KG: I didn't say his momma likes s! I said his momma rocks!
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