Tuesday, January 8th, 2013 at 9:00 am  |  147 responses

Carmelo Anthony Tried to Confront Kevin Garnett Following Loss (VIDEO)

The short-handed Boston Celtics eked out a tough win in New York last night, taking down the Knicks 102-96 in an emotional affair.

Kevin Garnett and Carmelo Anthony jawed at one another repeatedly throughout the matchup, each earning a technical foul in the process.

The tension remained high after the game, as Anthony attempted to confront KG in the locker room and near the C’s team bus. With police officers, security personnel and Knicks head coach Mike Woodson intervening, eventually, cooler heads would prevail.

From CSNNE:

Celtics coach Doc Rivers had little to say when asked about Anthony approaching his team’s locker room after the Celtics win which extended Boston’s winning streak to three in a row. “I’m going to let y’all figure that one out. I’m going to stay out of that. If it was the playoffs I’d tell on him,” quipped Rivers. “But since it’s not I’m just going to be quiet.”

Garnett chalked it up to just a couple of players trying to do what they can to help their respective teams be successful in a tightly contested game. “Heat of battle, guys go back and fourth,” Garnett said. “He’s trying to get his team to go, I’m trying to get my team to go. Both teams are colliding; not to mention it’s the Knicks and the Celtics. That’s just what it is.”

Carmelo Anthony had himself a horrific night, shooting 6 of 26 from the field, and clearly got taken out of his game by Kevin Garnett’s words and antics. To make matters worse, he will likely face punishment from the NBA for escalating things after the final whistle.

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  • danpowers

    im not speaking about most men, im talking about greatness. in this case greatness in terms of character. its really hard to stay focused then, but who said being great is easy?

    i wasted many years of my life by being a violent piece of s***t. somebody disrespected people close to me and i wouldnt even argue back and beat the living sh*t out of anybody. with the experience and insight that this just makes things worse for anyone and doesnt even comfort the one’s for who you think you are fighting for. this is just about own pride.

    somebody pulling melos wife into such a thing like a hard fought game when things get serious is of such low character, that he couldnt even hurt her pride / grace from down there one bit. melo couldve also seen it that way. just saying i wish he had that grace coz as a fan im more concerned about his well being. now i kinda feel like i sound as if i was his mum lol

  • http://twitter.com/sooperfadeaway nbk

    LOL – greatness of character is purely subjective. you realize that right? like i said, my opinion of Melo is not affected in anyway but how he did, or if he did not react to what KG said. Personal stuff, like family, is personal. None of my business to judge him.

  • The Philosopher

    What if Anthony had said something to Garnett, first? They were both mouthing off to each other, no?
    Anyways, Garnett was wrong to reference what a man’s wife may taste like. Anthony was incorrect in his reaction.
    But… it is fair game. In my opinion.
    If I am Carmelo Anthony, I am asking my wife some questions.

  • The Philosopher

    And isn’t that why Kobe Bryant attempted to assault Reggie Miller during a game?
    Didn’t Reggie Miller reference what Vanessa Laine Bryant may taste like, as well?
    That is what I had heard, at least.

  • GentlemanBandit

    I’m pretty sure Tim Duncan also hates Garnett’s guts, so now we have two NBA stars who don’t even pretend to like Garnett. Garnett certainly respects the game, I just don’t think he respects anyone on the other team. I’ve only watched him 5 or so times and that’s painfully obvious. The man’s a jerk, I have a lot of respect for the players who can go a full game without giving him a Karl Malone-style elbow “accident.”

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=509819249 Gaurav P.

    When it happens to Kobe though, its hilarious.

    /SLAM board mentality

  • http://twitter.com/sooperfadeaway nbk

    idk where my comment went, so if this is like a double post i apologize.

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    “The concept of trash talking is not a part of Target (or any corporate) culture; however, It is a known and accepted part of basketball culture from the playground and up.”

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    i hate to break it to you, but the concept of trash talking is the same concept as “giving someone sh*t” or any other form of banter. it is not just a product of basketball, that’s naive. and i also hate to break it to you, but coworkers at companies, like target as you are so focused on, do “talk trash” to each other. They are just not doing it while also competing with one another.

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    Now, onto you and this playground stuff.
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    The playground is more irrelevant than a work place, given the context of how the players should and typically do, treat one another.
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    - you show up to play basketball (playground + NBA)
    - you show up to do an activity for a sum of money – (work + NBA)
    - your ultimate goal is to win (playground + NBA)
    - you are performing your activity with the chief purpose of pleasing your customers (work + NBA)
    - you are expected to act professionally (work + NBA)
    - you are expected to respect your fellow employee/union member (work + NBA)
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    that leaves – Playground with 3 major similarities to the NBA and work with 4. whose point seems more relevant?

  • http://twitter.com/sooperfadeaway nbk

    and let’s also note, on a playground, as the result of trash talk, i have seen people get knocked out, and i have even seen a gun pulled. So i assume, we should not only accept, but expect this in the NBA then?
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    that should do it. but i assume it won’t.

  • davidR

    trash talking on a basketball court is another way of being competitive. in a work environment — target, you’re supposed to work as a team. there is no competition. i’m not seeing how target == nba

  • http://twitter.com/sooperfadeaway nbk

    PLEASE, read the WHOLE conversation if you are going to try and correct me.

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    “(You work at Target or whatever. Another Target Employee from a different state tells you, infront of everyone (but quietly) at some Target sales by state competition, that your wife’s vagina taste’s like sushi.)”

  • davidR

    i would’ve flipped it on him. said thanks, then “cuz yours tastes like isht”

  • davidR

    so what if another employee says that while we’re at the workplace? i would know he’s just talking isht, and wouldn’t mean any harm in it. now, if the employee were to say that to me personally outside of the work place, then it’s a different story.

    i do however have a problem with kg talking about duncan’s mom. that was ufcked up

  • http://twitter.com/sooperfadeaway nbk

    it’s the guys wife. as i said, i don’t blame him for reacting. i don’t think he should have, i think he should have done what he did after the game. but that’s not reason enough to accept KG’s actions just because Melo shouldn’t have got mad.
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    Family is across the line to me.
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    That will never change.

  • davidR

    oh no doubt, me personally i don’t necessarily think what KG said this time was that bad, but he didn’t have to go that route. and i don’t blame melo for reacting, although i don’t think he shouldn’t have taken it personally

    like KG said, heat of the battle

  • Allenp

    Garnett said something about another man’s wife. That is out of bounds, I don’t care what anyone says.

  • Allenp

    I don’t think people’s spouses are regular conversation topics. These are all grown men with pride after all.

  • Allenp

    People who are all cavalier about comments about their wife either don’t really care about their wives or don’t have one.

  • http://www.facebook.com/rainman1991 Saleem Rainman

    “ur wifes vagina tastes like sushi” HAAAhaha

  • zogs19994

    WHY DID YOU COPY MY COMMENT YOU DlCK

  • pposse

    If Carmello did exhibit great character then the story of what KG said would have never leaked. No one on here would know what was said, and there wouldnt be 1,000,000 pictures/websites created of LaLa and KG as a honeybee.

  • http://twitter.com/sooperfadeaway nbk

    Or don’t have any life experience around married men at all

  • The Mauve Avenger (Roll Tide)

    “Woah. Just take it easy man.” -Drake Parker

  • retloc

    I’ve definitely worked at places with production bonuses too, where there is direct competition between employees. The trash talking would get pretty intense back and forth between everybody. Anytime someone crossed the line and started talking wife mother etc it quickly escalated. You can say a dude bones down male prostitutes, but you can’t say the same thing about his old lady. That’s life.

  • http://twitter.com/sooperfadeaway nbk

    Thank you. I just had an argument with some jackass on twitter who could not understand the idea of coworkers being competitive. Lol

  • retloc

    It most definitely is, I’ve beat up my best friend before because he kept insisting on calling my fiancee at the time a c***. She’s now my wife and he’s never said anything remotely disparaging towards her since{at least not in my presence or that I’ve heard},he’s actually thanked me numerous times for helping him pull his head out of his ass. And im talking laid the boots asswhipping, not some shoving bs. Ahh to be 19 and drunk again.

  • Chukaz

    I personally think it’s okay to talk trash. It’s part of the game. You do it in the playground, in HS, College, and the Pros. It’s part of the game. It’s like a jump shot, or a crossover. With that said, if you talk about someone’s family, you might get the crap beat out of you. That happens everywhere. From the playground to the pros. My only problem is that KG didn’t man up and faced Melo. I’ve been losing respect for KG for years now. When he was one of the top 3 players in the league, i understood his behavior. Now, there’s no place for his tough guy routine. When he was one of the best, he could back up his talk with his play. Now that he can’t back it up with his play I expect him to man up and get in a fight if he provokes one. All those f-bombs and fake intensity for no reason. There are disney kids that are tougher than KG at this point.

  • Mr_Beans_o_o

    Melo and KG both confirmed that it wasn’t family related

  • http://twitter.com/_DFrance DFrance

    I respect you opinion, I just personally wouldn’t allow myself to get THAT worked up over something that simply isn’t true. I’m married, I play ball. If some dude trash talked me about my wife during the game, I’d probably just cuss him out and keep it moving. I just can’t let a stranger that doesn’t know me or my wife to affect me like that. I don’t think that means I don’t care about my wife, but thats just me.

  • http://twitter.com/sooperfadeaway nbk

    Melo said it was something you don’t say to a man.

  • http://twitter.com/_DFrance DFrance

    I just never understand you guys that say KG should get into a fight with anyone. How many fights do we see in the NBA yearly? There are a billion games played, guys talk trash to each other presumably every night. NO ONE goes around punching trash talking opponents in the face. I would call Karl Malone a pretty tough guy. Dennis Rodman used to use every tactic in the book to get under his skin. Can’t remember one time where they got into an actual fight on the court.

  • http://twitter.com/Jzakoni Sanchez

    not the wifey or kids…

  • http://twitter.com/Jzakoni Sanchez

    disgusting

  • Redd

    For the record, whoever thinks what KG said was ok with what he said, is an idiot.

  • Dutch Rich

    Just out of curiosity, did he say her punany tasted like Cereal? Or did he mean that she had Cereal smell on her breath when he might have pecked her last or was he referring to her overall body smell. Not that it makes a difference……OR DOES IT!!!! Because if he really said that her punny smelled like Cheerios they would have had to stop that game, and furthermore last time I checked eating out another dudes pum pum is not something median afro-centric men brag about. But then again we’re talking about a Nutcase in Garnett.

  • Dutch Rich

    General Mills rubbing hands. btw

  • Hursty

    Jalen Rose said in the Grantland podcast that he knew KG and Melo had spoken over the phone after this all occured, and they were ok now (to summarise).

  • http://twitter.com/stepfdelaghetto Stepfan Raiford

    Have yall seen this?

  • danpowers

    then call it discipline. or take the common sense about the definition of greatness based on medieval ideas of knightliness, blah. you know what i meant anyway.

    leave that whole kg issue aside anyway, melo gets too carried away and complains too much as soon as things dont go his way. thats just a little thing of concern, besides that he has a great season and even though the knicks struggle a little bit lately, its still a joy to be in the knicks camp with melo being a big reason for that.

  • http://twitter.com/sooperfadeaway nbk

    like 2 months ago you were in here complaining about how Melo doesn’t get superstar calls…..now he complains too much?

  • danpowers

    one thing is how smbdy gets treated, the other thing is how he responds to it.
    edit: and by the way, it somehow looks to me as if he gets these calls now.

  • http://twitter.com/sooperfadeaway nbk

    i just don’t understand why you think you should be able to complain about how Melo is treated, but Melo himself shouldn’t.

  • danpowers

    let me put it like that – i wouldnt mind if he complained about how players get treated in games he doesnt play in. like “hell no, i cant believe how the refs aint giving zach randolph any calls”. absolutely no problem with that. but when you play yourself, its all about attitude and leading by example. when i play i wont let my teammates go out there and emberass themselves by acting like b*tches. if they wanna complain and whine about calls they should go n play soccer

  • http://twitter.com/sooperfadeaway nbk

    that makes sense. as much as i don’t agree.

  • Roger Obianyo

    Havent you ever watched DWade stop and argue with the refs when he should be running back to play D? Its not the way forward…

  • http://twitter.com/sooperfadeaway nbk

    i didn’t say i support player’s b*tching. i said i don’t agree with the idea that you should be able to complain about someone else’s situation and not your own.
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    i would rather people didn’t complain about the refs at all. because to me, it is a total, and complete cop-out.
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    i live in Phoenix, and feel this way.

  • Chukaz

    When Melo was going after KG, KG kept walking away. If he wants to do his tough guy routine, the least he can do is stand his ground. I’ve seen plenty of NBA players stand their ground and back up their words. We all know NBA players don’t know how to fight, doesn’t change the fact that KG’s like a lil chihuahua dog. He’s all bark, no fight.

  • jeff r

    kg is a straight up coward..always has been

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