Jamel Irief

WOW! I saw this thread this morning on the topic list, thinking it was too big of a non-issue for anyone to give a damn, now it haas 70 replies?!??!?!

Are we this hungry for news that a player punching someone in practice is a big deal? You guys ever seen a competitive practice? And now it has evolved into gossip about Rickertt being soft, immature a punk and simular Garnett being a punk and violent thug.

I guess we can't wait until the season starts.

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Amareca

Rickert has always come across as someone who is pretty full of himself and cocky.

What does that have to with being soft anyway?

Debt Collector

no matter what rickert said or did, the guy who throws the first blow is at fault,

plus, garnett has a pretty shady 12 months on him - the elson low blow incident, the cheapshots during the kings series, and now this - its not farfetched to say he is one of the dirtiest players in the league

Dragnsmke1

Hes not dirty he just plays angry.

Dirty is when you stretch the rules and evryone knows its " wrong"but its not illigal:
Karl Malone clearing boards
undercutting somebody under the basket
putting your foot under a jump shooter so hell roll hes ankle
sticking your butt out ona pick and roll to get the foul

stuff like that is dirty.

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futuristxen

No kidding. I thought this was a non news item as well.

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nbanoitall

rickert and elson should have lockers next to each other in denver.

adhir

garnett doesnt seem like the kind of person who would,suckerpunch someone, especially his own teammate for no reason, if anything garnett would applaud the skills of fellow players on his team, unless rickert was being a punk about it...garnett would be chearing him on, we all saw that when he got Casell and SPree, on his team how much he said about them.or wally in the 3point challenge. and garnett does bring anger, but its more anger towards himself, for example punching himself for letting rickert go by him...and i cant believe u guys believe something like that article, and we will never no unless we get more details about it.

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Dynasty Raider

I TOTALLY agree with you.

Even moreso when it involves KG because this is so out of character. But then again, do we really know any of these guys?

Dragnsmke1

And Kobe didnt seem like the type to cheat on his wife.
Jordan didnt seem like the type to have a side family.
Bush doesnt seem like the type to be a president
Roy Jones Jr didnt seem like the type to lose a fight unless he was screwed.

point being how can you say he doesnt seem like the type to suckerpunch somebody?

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Snicka

Someone please tell me how a twin cities website could be biased against KG??? I don't buy it that they wouldn't have KG's back if there were questions in this incident. He is their franchise, they love him.

Even if Rickert clowned him a bit KG was wrong to retaliate. Its damn dumb to rough up a scrub when you have so much going for you.

bballlife

Lets look at the facts here.


#1 KG has a history of being a bully. Whether you want to believe it or not, I see all 82 T-wolves games a year here in MN, and he does have tendencies to "bully" and trash talk other players. Not players like Marcus Fizer or Eric Dampier, players like Bobby Sura, Jarron Collins.

Anyone see what he did to Duncan a few years back. He pushed him then got up in his face and cussed him out. A complete idiotic overreaction. Duncan just stood there and looked like a boy accepting his punishment for not doing his chores.

It was ridiculous, KG and Duncan had been on All-Star teams together, known each other for a long time. And KG just explodes on him for no reason.


#2 His history with Wally. Wally is known around MPLS as a super nice guy, really thoughtful, caring, good guy.
KG and him have never gotten along and Its been because of KG imo. And they have had more than 1 altercation.


We can't assume, but if you look at KG's history and see how he has reacted in certain situations, Its not hard to believe that Rickert might have just been another victim.

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KokoTheMonkey

Nice.




Why wouldn't this be a news item? Because it involves Kevin Garnett and a bum? To me, this is definitely newsworthy, because, guess what, stuff like this does make the news. We might not hear about all of the incidents, but I'm sure that if a media member finds out about something like this, they'll blow it up until everyone is tired of the story.

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