Chris Paul to Pau Gasol: I’m Not One of Your Kids

man this would be a great playoff battle

kinda reminds me of the last time my auntie slapped the back of my head for no reason a few years back. I had to gets straight gangsta “Hey I’m a grown ass man now you can’t be slapping me across the head no more, I got a son now” lol

Pau being an well traveled international player should understand that some people get offended by different gestures. There are whole countries where touching someone on the top of the head is the utmost display of disrespect.

cp3 too emotional. it was a post game handshake/man hug/non-verbal congratulary action…

ive seen gasol do this all the time. i always thought it was weird. but cp3 was just upset with the game, and the fact that hes alot smaller than gasol. cp3 is one of the most competitive dudes in the nba today. but also he gets mad quicka and can be a sore loser at times.

@nbk
As far as i know the USA is not one of those places.
Its more middle eastern countries and Muslim countries.
were they dont like it when you touch there heads.
But this has nothing to do with Chris Paul.

Chris was just mad because he can’t reach high enough to do the same to Pau.

Pau knew what he was doing, it was intended to be patronizing but he probably didn’t expect that kind of reaction. It’s not an issue of cultural differences. An intense game, extremely competitive and the tension was high. If you were born before the 90′s then like me you probably loved this. For those claiming this is not a rivalry after last night I think you’ll have to rethink your opinion, this was awesome. I’m balling in Europe at the moment and the “Derby” (teams from the same town) is more common and BIG deal. Seeing as LA is the only city with two teams it’s great that the Clips are finally able to compete.

so the Clippers suddenly have a good team and instantly it’s a rivalry? It’s not a rivalry, the Clippers won one pre season game and one regular game and lost yesterday. Lakers vs. Celtics is a rivalry. This is two teams from one city finally competing against each other after years of Lakers dominance. Let’s be objective here.

CP3 needs that “tough little man” image. Nobody pulled that $hit with Isiah or Iverson.

Pau did this to kinda son him, Chris got every reason to feel disrespected. Gimme a pound and keep it pushing, good game, thats it, all that extracurricular sh!t is uncalled for.

Pau was just being friendly; kind of like a “good game” gesture. He was just amused by CP3′s talking. When Paul hit him back is when Gasol actually got pissed, which he why he started talking trash back, and then gave him a bump and a “go home” point after the buzzer. CP3 is a little b*itch for overreacting.

Guys please, take the time to look up the definition of the word “rivalry”. Surely there can be different degrees. Perhaps it won’t go down as one of the better rivalries of all time but with all due respect to Kobe, it is unquestionably a rivalry. What other two teams have gone at it harder than the what we saw last night so far this season? Well regardless of what you want to call it, I’m glad to see real competitiveness in a league where it’s often hard to come by.

@nbk – “just finally watchable” – jeez, do you like basketball or not?

If it’s a battle for basketball supremacy within a city, its a rivalry.

@OTB – honestly I don’t know. No disrespect but I think that’s a little naive. The tension was running real high and I have serious doubts that Pau was just being friendly. I think CP3 understood it exactly how it was intended and due to being intensely competitive and not as you say “a little b*itch” he reacted the way he did. I wouldn’t want either of them to have done anything differently.

One of the many funny parts of the game was when Pau was scrapping with either Wedgie Evans or Blake and there was a lot of verbal going on, the Lakers announcer goes,” The game is getting really chippy but you know if Pau’s involved, it’s only be verbal. Pau’s not a fighter, he’s a lover!” Love Pau, but he kills me sometimes.

RIVALRY- Noun:
Competition for the same objective or for superiority in the same field.

This is indeed a rivalry on many levels, just because it is now only getting competitive doesnt de-value it. Do you think when Cheryl Miller was beating Reggie consistently that it wasn’t a rivalry? Just because as he got older it became more competetive, didnt make it more of a rivalry.

Typical i believe theyre hyping the lakers clippers feuds.interesting…

@nbk – I respectfully disagree. The number of games isn’t so important when you consider the backdrop. I’ll concede that the media may have to an extent overhyped this somewhat. But when you consider that they share not only the same city but also the same arena, combined with the clippers acquisition of CP3, a player the Lakers tried to get and would love to have. You better believe that there’s a degree of animosity between these two squads, the intensity and physicality of last nights game attests to that. Artest and Pau showed the kind of heart we haven’t seen in quite some time. I saw videos of LA natives adorned in red squared off against those in gold, surely you can concede it’s at least a budding rivalry, can you give me that at least?

Pau found his MoJo last night… Pau was the man. Good to see he’s still got it.

LOL Chris Paul tried to punk Gasol, but no haps….. Take that L young man and sit down!

It’s early days yet, agreed. But you raise an interesting point. Who would be on your list? If you ask me for a real sporting rivalry today I gotta look outside of basketball. ManU vs. Man City, Barca vs Real Madrid
I’m curious what needs to take place before it constitutes as a full fledged rivalry? At what point did lakers vs celtics become a rivalry and when did that stop, or is it still a rivalry?

@nbk – I’m pretty sure it’s just being referred to as a crosstown rivalry. Because it is. No one has yet claimed it is a great sports rivalry or rivalry of dynasties. You’ve rebuked a dictionary definition as arbritrary, but your own concept of the word is entirely singular, and depends on prefaces of ‘great’ or ‘sports’ usw, which no-one is really using. If they do meet in the playoffs, people will talk continually of ‘this developing rivalry’ or this ‘simmering rivalry’ and then you can glory in aggitation.

20 games into a season and you people are talking about a rivalry. Because these games even really matter. You think Kobe Bryant or Chris Paul would call this a “rivalry?” – answer that.

lol idk why they come off as me being mad. I’m not at all, just trying to get the point across how ridiculous calling this a rivalry is. What the f*ck is everyone going to say if one of these teams doesn’t even make the playoffs? Is it really a rivalry if one team is a playoff team while the other is in the lottery? Are the Heat & Knicks still a rivalry even after a decade of the Knicks being horrid? How about the Knicks & Celtics? Is that even a rivalry? They at least played in the playoffs last year. How about the Suns & Lakers, is that still a rivalry? If you wanted to look at semantic things like a trade that didn’t go down for one team but happened for another, then aren’t the Thunder and Bobcats rivals after the Tyson Chandler deal? I’m sure they’ve played a close game or two since then. Players on each team probably even argued with each other. The only legitimate reason this is a budding rivalry is because both teams are similarly talented, and they play in the same city. Other then that, this is in no way a rivalry, or the start of one.