Innocent Question

If Chris Paul is a dirty player, then yes. If Michael Jordan was dirty, then yes. If Rasheed Wallace is dirty, then yes.

…he has become extremely arrogant and annoying.

He has turned into a “Bowen” type of player although he never was like that in Minnesota. I’ve noticed that he keeps aiming at “easier” targets like international players who are probably not used to trash talking and stuff like that. Some examples:

Belinelli, Belinelli again, Bogut, Pachulia, Atlanta fan, Calderon.

This is beyond the Paul-Jordan-Rasheed competitiveness. This is arrogance. And it’s not only his fault. It’s the whole marketing promotion in favour of the Celtics. Who hasn’t watched more than 100 times (literally) that KG advertisement during all NBA games?

Anyway, that doesn’t mean they didn’t deserve the championship of course. But they also deserve my hate!

Do I care? No.

KG has always been intense. His intensity increased with his skill and his leadership role. He has been the leader of the not good enough TWolves where his voice and intensity were better accepted due to the not quite contender status of his team.

Don’t you all remember the media beat down KG got when he compared the playoff series to a war? Personally, that is one of the reasons I would get TWolves tix when they came to ARCO – are there many more enjoyable things to watch then a player who fights like hell to win? Who the outcome of the game is personal and you know it every second he is on the court? Did you guys hate the arrognace of Alonzo Mourning too? I hated him playing my team but I envied the team he was on – and he has nowhere the skills of a Kevin Garnett. Dwayne Wade is that type of player, LeBron is becoming that type of player. Tim Duncan is the Pete Sampras bottled intensity that is involved in every play.

So, no, Boston isn’t dirty – the young guys are less skilled and rougher (geez, did you expect Big Baby to step aside or finesse his way around the rim?) than the Boston Three Party. Ray Allen is dirty? Eddie House is dirty? NO. No uncontested lay ups is not dirty. It is a philosophy. Perhaps that idea is so foreign to us Kings Fans that we have no other way to explain it than to blink in amazement and claim it unjust. Looks like pre-playoff basketball to me.

And KG’s always been like that, or am I the only one that remembers his cheap shot at Anthony Peeler just before Peeler retaliated and got himself suspended for game 7?

I still remember it well. I remember Peeler elbowed Garnett, and I remember Flip Saunders picking Jabari Smith to shoot some free throws and he made them. I also remember thinking the Kings had a good shot of winning that series, when before the playoffs started I did not think they would make it past Dallas. That was a fun series.

Man, some of cheap shots KG took were just uncalled for. I like the trash talkingbetween him and calderon. Calderon shut his mouth up though. Celtics last year to win the title. The next couple of years they won’t have enough bengay to keep those old bodies going in a seven game series

our beloved C-Webb knocked John Stockton to the floor in his first playoff game as a King. I can’t really fault KG for being arrogant. He’s got a ring. I think we’d be much more forgiving if it were our own team.

We know what it’s like to be a very bad team…we were there not too long ago. So if my team were 13-49, I’d probably think other teams were dirty also…thank god I get to root for the “dirty” Celtics…because you can call us dirty, annoying, arrogant…just as long as you tack on champs to that description. The league feels that we play within the rules that are established, thats why they awarded us the trophy. So all of this just comes off sounding like hating…

P.S. KG does this on purpose by the way…he likes to play the villain. It’s what drives him to be one of the most fierce competitors in the game. It’s all a show, used to drive his intensity directly from his opponents disgust for him…kind of surprised you guys didn’t pick that up.