AbeVigodaLive wrote:Some of the comments in this thread are cringeworthy. Yikes. If we want to play the dangerous game you're playing... I have no choice but to think negatively about who you are as a person by the things you type... even if it passes the grammar police.
A few other notes:
- Tim Duncan was also swindled out of tens of millions of dollars by the same guy as Garnett.
- Such "thugs" as Steve Kerr, Danny Ainge, Larry Bird and many others have been lionized and applauded for fighting... be it opponents or even famous teammates.
- I don't know about the dalliances Garnett had while married... nor do I care. The cheating that goes on in the NBA, entertainment world... real world... disgusts me. The list of thugs who'd make it would take far too long for me to write. So, it's simply a lot easier to judge people in what I do know... their on-court actions... instead of assuming I know what they're like off the court.
- All that being said... I really did hate KG's posse. I'm 99% sure that I shared the story of playing them in a men's league years back. Garnett came to one of the games and was extremely chill. But his buddies... yuck. They were dicks. AND... the best part... they sucked at hoops. They were terrible basketball players. But in a men's league... as they all sped off in KG's Range Rovers, Mercedes and Porsches after losing by 40... while we headed home in our Honda Accords and Ford Tauruses...
Glad to hear you whipped up on the posse. But I'll add that KG's on court actions are what I despised. We don't need to discuss how good he was as it was very evident. But how he went about his business was in some ways distasteful.
Two ways to look at it...
1) one of the game's most dedicated two-players known for his passion and intensity... and unselfishness on the court, well documented by awards, eye test accounts, stories, et al...
2) what you're describing in vague details
Again... I wasn't the biggest Garnett fan on or off the court... I just don't know if I'd use him as the poster boy for the nba thug player
And I wouldn't either...there are certainly plenty more candidates even more worthy for that coveted title. My only point was his personal characteristics are way too erratic for my taste to have him involved in any way with the ownership of the Wolves. Let's just say I was relieved at his latest incomprehensible IG outburst.
Since Tim Duncan was named as another big NBA investment loser, I'll pass on a quick story about him. I have a friend who for a few years in his 20s was a stringer for the Clippers and had free locker room access. I asked him which players he liked best and there were several...not too many surprises. When I asked him who the biggest a-hole he ever met was, I have to admit I was quite surprised when he said Duncan, and that it wasn't even close. I always thought Duncan was one of the NBA good guys, but not according to my friend's personal experience.
Interesting nugget about Duncan.
And yes... Garnett as an owner and player evaluator meddler would be comical at times... but probably disastrous.
The only caveat is that a team that stays in MN with a bad, crazy owner is better than a team that relocates.
AbeVigodaLive wrote:Some of the comments in this thread are cringeworthy. Yikes. If we want to play the dangerous game you're playing... I have no choice but to think negatively about who you are as a person by the things you type... even if it passes the grammar police.
A few other notes:
- Tim Duncan was also swindled out of tens of millions of dollars by the same guy as Garnett.
- Such "thugs" as Steve Kerr, Danny Ainge, Larry Bird and many others have been lionized and applauded for fighting... be it opponents or even famous teammates.
- I don't know about the dalliances Garnett had while married... nor do I care. The cheating that goes on in the NBA, entertainment world... real world... disgusts me. The list of thugs who'd make it would take far too long for me to write. So, it's simply a lot easier to judge people in what I do know... their on-court actions... instead of assuming I know what they're like off the court.
- All that being said... I really did hate KG's posse. I'm 99% sure that I shared the story of playing them in a men's league years back. Garnett came to one of the games and was extremely chill. But his buddies... yuck. They were dicks. AND... the best part... they sucked at hoops. They were terrible basketball players. But in a men's league... as they all sped off in KG's Range Rovers, Mercedes and Porsches after losing by 40... while we headed home in our Honda Accords and Ford Tauruses...
Glad to hear you whipped up on the posse. But I'll add that KG's on court actions are what I despised. We don't need to discuss how good he was as it was very evident. But how he went about his business was in some ways distasteful.
Two ways to look at it...
1) one of the game's most dedicated two-players known for his passion and intensity... and unselfishness on the court, well documented by awards, eye test accounts, stories, et al...
2) what you're describing in vague details
Again... I wasn't the biggest Garnett fan on or off the court... I just don't know if I'd use him as the poster boy for the nba thug player
And I wouldn't either...there are certainly plenty more candidates even more worthy for that coveted title. My only point was his personal characteristics are way too erratic for my taste to have him involved in any way with the ownership of the Wolves. Let's just say I was relieved at his latest incomprehensible IG outburst.
Since Tim Duncan was named as another big NBA investment loser, I'll pass on a quick story about him. I have a friend who for a few years in his 20s was a stringer for the Clippers and had free locker room access. I asked him which players he liked best and there were several...not too many surprises. When I asked him who the biggest a-hole he ever met was, I have to admit I was quite surprised when he said Duncan, and that it wasn't even close. I always thought Duncan was one of the NBA good guys, but not according to my friend's personal experience.
Interesting nugget about Duncan.
And yes... Garnett as an owner and player evaluator meddler would be comical at times... but probably disastrous.
The only caveat is that a team that stays in MN with a bad, crazy owner is better than a team that relocates.
Very few NBA players are true hero's and I get irritated by the lofty pedestal fan boys put these guys on. I use them for entertainment the way they use us for their livelihood. Most don't give a damn about you, and I feel similarly about them. The name on the front of the jersey is what I care about.
I've been thinking about examples of NBA players you could look up to, and it's not easy to come up with names. George Hill? Steph Curry? Pat Connaughton?
CoolBreeze44 wrote:Very few NBA players are true hero's and I get irritated by the lofty pedestal fan boys put these guys on. I use them for entertainment the way they use us for their livelihood. Most don't give a damn about you, and I feel similarly about them. The name on the front of the jersey is what I care about.
I've been thinking about examples of NBA players you could look up to, and it's not easy to come up with names. George Hill? Steph Curry? Pat Connaughton?
No idea. Unless a person has a personal relationship with any of these guys... there's no real way of knowing.
