rynobot

Don't know if you guys read this in the news today. Yesterday during a pick-up game Kevin Garnett punched Rick Reickert in his mouth causing possibly a life threating injury, a chipped tooth and a couple stitches. Occurding to eye witness accounts Reickert was domintaing KG in a one on one game. When KG's friends started mocking KG for getting shown up by the human popsicle stick KG punched Reickert in the mouth after Reickert made his next shoot.


Source: The Washington Post. 9-01-04

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deanwoof

I'm Kevin Garnett, *****!

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cimalee

wow if a blazer had done this , It would be all over Espn

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SilentOneX

I bet.

Cris

i heard this on PTI

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sheefo13

yeah i heard this on pti also. i also agree if this was a blazer it would be he biggest thing this week. The thing is is that none of the blazers won mvp, and rickert(yes it is spelled rickert) is a nobody in the nba. But this is wrong. I also dont think a life threatning injury is a chipped tooth and 7 stitches. I dont know who the eye witnesses were, but i truly doubt that rickert was killing kg, he could barely play against the summer league players.rickert may have blocked kg's shot or something, but i dont think rickert beat kg in a 7-0 scrub.

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deanwoof

it's still big news. people ARE talking about it, just not devoting massive amounts of time covering it. it also just so happens to coincide with the start of football season. most of basketball news has been pushed aside with the exception of the kobe bryant case to make room for nfl and ncaa news

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kaniffmn

all i can say is [edit] happens. it's basketball, i don't know how it's so wrong. basketball is a physical game, and when it's not officiated, 1 on 1, 3 on 3, i don't care, stuff like that happens. i've been in numerous situations such as this playing regular pick-up ball. people get mad, i'm sure everyone out there has experienced something such as this, but not to a degree of where you had a chipped tooth and whatever else. point is, i've had my tooth chipped off, i've been hit in the head before and had stitches, but still there is a game to play and it never stopped me or the person who did it to me, to stop playing that way. this isn't golf, this is basketball there is physical contact if it's accidental or not. deal with it. - No masked cursing - Koko

rainman

i can see getting ticked off at guys on opposing teams but your own teammate when you are the captain of that team to me is bush league, like i've stated if i were the coach or gm i would say thats cool but you just gave up the c on your jersey until you can prove you deserve it. that would take some ***** on flip and mchale's part so i dont expect anything to happen.

Hibachi!

Where the hell do you play basketball, the state penitentary?

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kaniffmn

if you are comparing what garnett did to the state penitentary, save it. i've seen worse and heard of worse than what garnett could've possibly done to rickert. nobody even knows all the facts. stuff like this happens in the nba game...karl malone when he hit isaiah, rudy tomjanovich....the game is life to these players. it hasn't changed, even in practice or whatever. what is taking a guy's C away gonna do? as i recall they were playing 1 on 1, and training camp or none of that is open. the wolves shouldn't do anything about it. it might as well have been on the playground because it sure wasn't team practice.

SilentOneX

What KG have done was less serious than Ron Artest have done a few years ago. I think Artest's was like chronic or something.

KG4MVP2

Wat i heard on KFAN on a show called sludge and lake, was that rickert was making some shots on Garnett and was talking alot of trash to him. Garnett told Rickert to shutup or if he didnt he would punch him, so Rickert kept talking trash then he made another shot and KG punched him. Rickert got wat he deserved, he didnt shutup like KG told him to.

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SilentOneX

From the Star Tribune today, adding something to the story:

The town is buzzing about a punch Kevin Garnett landed on the chin of former Gopher Rick Rickert during a scrimmage at Target Center. Rickert, who won't talk about what happened, needed some stitches to close the wound.

That is not like Garnett to do something like this. He doesn't even do it during the regular season. Rickert must have done something to aggravate Garnett.

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