socco

There's no point in condemning it either. You obviously arent a very physical or competitive person. There are many times where you can justify punching osmebody in the face. It's not like KG stabbed the guy, come on now. Rickert could've been cheap shotting him, and trash talkin him. Who knows what it was. But to say there's little justification for punching somebody and using that as your excuse is just, well, it's just stupid.

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Actually, there are very few times punching someone in the face is justifiable. Saying that there are "many" times just makes you seem violent.

kflo

i'm both physical, and competitive. again, i said there were situations where it's justified - often times it's not. there haven't been any reports that garnett was actually physically provoked. which of course reduces the situations where punching someone could be justified.

i don't know what happened. i havne't judged garnett here. i'm saying that sucker-punching someone in the face usually isn't cool. that shouldn't be very controversial. you can't even bring yourself to agree with that?

Hibachi!

Other than Rickert wanting to fight KG, I can't think of one thing in which punching someone in the face is justified... Can someone please explain what Rickert could have possibly done to make it ok for KG to punch him in the face? This guy was trying to make the team, he wasn't some superstar. I highly doubt his plan to try to get on the team was to provoke KG to punch him in the face...

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The problem is that nobody has said ANYTHING. There are no reports period. Rickert hasn't said anything, KG hasn't said anything, other peopel that were there haven't said anything. I have no problem if you say, "If there wasn't a good reason for this, KG is just a punk" or something like that. But there are many times where punching somebody is ok. Sucker punching somebody usually isn't cool,
but it's also not cool to judge a guy without knowing anything. Usually in this type of argument, one side judges teh guy, and the other side says that you shouldn't judge until you know more. But in this case you don't know anything, yet you're still judging him. And by you, I dont' mean you personally, just people who come out and straight up say that KG was wrong no matter what.
OK. Rickert slept hith KG's wife. Rickert slept with any member of KG's family. Rickert made fun of KG for the size of his, um, "manhood". Rickert has elbowing KG the whole game. Rickert was trash talking him, not just "you suck", but some really, REALLY, harsh stuff. Rickert tried to stab KG in the locker room. Rickert made a move on KG in the shower. Rickert poked KG in the eye as he was going for a rebound. Rickert tried to kiss KG as he was running by. Rickert kept grabbing KG's *** the whole game. Rickert punched KG in the face before, but nobody saw it. There are many, MANY mroe excuses too. There are also MANY explanations were it would not be OK for KG to do that. The thing is though that WE HAVE NO CLUE WHAT HAPPENED!!!! We jsut don't know. We have absolutely 0 clue as to what led up to this. And considering nothing else has been said, and it's beeen a month or so now, it's probably not that big of a deal. KG and Rickert are both over it, so why not you?

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Hibachi!

Once again... I highly highly doubt Rickerts master strategy to get onto the Timberwolves was to trash talk to him really harshly, sleep with his wife, or any of those other ridiculous things...

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hehe...

Nice try...

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ROFL!

Snicka

I bet McHale promised Rickert a spot on the team if he never mentioned this incident again.

To those who said Rickert should come out and say something, he wants a job and is probably willing to keep this in house to not blow is chance.

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Check it out: http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/4999670.html

socco

Trent Tucker, what an objective voice on Rick Rickert there. lmao. Sorry for not jumping to conclusions when I know absolutely nothing. Foolish me huh?

Why does everything have to be some strategy that somebody was trying to do. **** happens man. I get the point, you hate Garnett, so when you get even the slitest chance to bash him, you'll jump all over it. But is it that hard for you to believe that peopel get in fights while playing professional sports. I'm serious man, that has happened a couple times before. People have actually punched other people. And you know what, that doesn't make them the ****ing devil.

It appears that you guys just don't want to be objective about this. KG punched him, nobody's denying that. But nobody knows why he punched him. Im not saying he had a good reason for it, I'm just saying that we don't know his reason. And until we know at least something, I'm nto gonna be stupid enough to say he was either OK or not OK to do it. Apparently though alot of you guys are going to be stupid enough to rush to judgements.

What the **** are you talking about? We have no clue what happened you dumb ****. Try responding using your head next time, it might help.

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so again, since noone seems to talk about it, how about KG putting a fist into someone's nads. personally i think its fun and classy, and he should remain the crowned prince of the NBA. lol im just b