2010-11 NBA Basketball Season

[Mr Tony]

boy I guess the Wolfies went to Miami to "star view" versus playing a game

 

[pro96]

Dude....Chivas Regal is a blended scotch whiskey....

I dont drink.. hard stuff

 

[BillD1984]

Wednesday's Nationally Televised Games

Milwaukee at Boston- 8:00pm ET (ESPN/ESPN-HD)
LA Lakers at Sacramento- 10:30pm ET (ESPN/ESPN-HD)

 

[salsadancer7]

wow.....I had just heard about this....

...and now, it is definately making the rounds:

I don’t believe Garnett is uncaring or unsympathetic to the plight of cancer victims. Like everyone else, it’s touched his family. Once he had a chance to think about it, of course he wouldn’t want to be associated with the words that Villanueva assigned to him. This statement read a lot more like spin than it did a clarification. Unless Villanueva completely backs down, I think he heard Garnett far more clearly than Garnett wants people to believe.

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. It happens all the time. Pau Gasol. Jose Calderon. 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.

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.

Garnett's bully act goes too far - NBA - Yahoo! Sports

 

[BillD1984]

I heard about this earlier on ATH.

Shame, SHAME on KG for being so insensitive to such a serious thing as cancer!
I'm sure we all know someone who has had this awful illness, and it's not a thing to take lightly.

That being said...............

"He (Maurice Lucas) had to back it up, the way K.G. never has and never will.

Seriously??!!

 

[BillD1984]

NEWSFLASH........Rajon Rondo is human after all.

He has only one assist through the first period tonight.

 

[salsadancer7]

NEWSFLASH........Rajon Rondo is human after all.

He has only one assist through the first period tonight.

Either the Celtics are missing their shots or they are taking the inbound passes and just scoring at will...

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[SabresRule]

NEWSFLASH........Rajon Rondo is human after all.

He has only one assist through the first period tonight.

Bad timing, for I was going to ask you what, percentage-wise, are the chances Rondo leads the NBA in assists per game this year?

 

[AntAltMike]

He wound up with 15 for the game. This is going to be like the Strasburg start where, each game, we check to see what the previous record was for the first five, six, seven games...

And he went 7-10 from the field with EIGHT rebounds and three steals. All in a good night's work.

 

[pro96]

Lakers rollin up by 14

 

[HD MM]

'South Park' Spoofs LeBron's 'What Should I Do' Commercial

What Should I Do? (Season 14, Episode 12) - Video Clips - South Park Studios

 

[SabresRule]

For all the hype about the Magic and Heat, the 5-0 Atlanta Hawks are showing that there's room for another contender in the Southeast Division.

Don't sleep on the ATL.

 

[SandraC]

For all the hype about the Magic and Heat, the 5-0 Atlanta Hawks are showing that there's room for another contender in the Southeast Division.

Don't sleep on the ATL.

This is basically the same cast of characters who folded like a house of cards in the playoffs last year. When the going got tough against Orlando the Hawks played like they didn't even want to be there.

Until they prove otherwise, as far as I'm concerned you can Rip Van Winkle on the ATL.


Sandra

 

[salsadancer7]

This is basically the same cast of characters who folded like a house of cards in the playoffs last year. When the going got tough against Orlando the Hawks played like they didn't even want to be there.

Until they prove otherwise, as far as I'm concerned you can Rip Van Winkle on the ATL.


Sandra

LMAO!:up

 

[pro96]

hehe no comments on the Heat losing to the Hornets @ home? wow

 

[salsadancer7]

hehe no comments on the Heat losing to the Hornets @ home? wow

They lost to the Hornets in the REGULAR SEASON...no big deal. Considering the fact they were 19 down at one point..with horrid shooting due missed wide open shots...they played a much better 2nd half.

Your not gonna make a big deal about every game are you?

And by the way....the game was IN

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[pro96]

They lost to the Hornets in the REGULAR SEASON...no big deal. Considering the fact they were 19 down at one point..with horrid shooting due missed wide open shots...they played a much better 2nd half.

Your not gonna make a big deal about every game are you?

And by the way....the game was IN

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Lol nahh i just thought the lebron haters were gonna be all over this hehe. As for me, I will see ya at the finals at Staples

 

[salsadancer7]

Lol nahh i just thought the lebron haters were gonna be all over this hehe. As for me, I will see ya at the finals at Staples

The Lebron haters at this point hope their teams are relevant enough to even make the playoffs.....

 

[pro96]

The Lebron haters at this point hope their teams are relevant enough to even make the playoffs.....

+1

 

[pro96]

2 teams are still undefeated at 6-0, who will lose first???