Posts Tagged ‘Micheal Gearon’

Micheal Gearon, Jr. owns the Atlanta Hawks. The other night, he took issue with the lack of fouls in the Hawks’ favor and had this to say:

We don’t get any calls, which I know everybody always hears,” Gearon said. “But I’ll give you a stat. Last night, we are playing this old physical team. They are old. I know what happens when you play basketball: Old guys foul. Garnett is the dirtiest guy in the league. We are playing Boston (Tuesday) night and they had two fouls the whole first half. We had five times that and we’re athletic.”

KG took exception to this and went really big tonight in game 6, scoring 28 points and grabbing 14 rebounds to give Atlanta another year to stew on how terrible they are.

Kevin Garnett, never one to mince words, had some knowledge to drop on Mr. Gearon:

We’re not dirty. You have to understand the word ‘dirty’ in this game is very defined. Going under guys, trying to hurt guys, ill intent — that’s not how we play basketball. We play very, very respectable to the opponent, to the city we’re in. We play with a lot of passion and with force. It’s the playoffs. I haven’t been here trying to hurt anybody and neither have my teammates. I found that comment to be a little rude and out of hand, and I wanted to address it…

Just because you got a bunch of money doesn’t mean you can open your mouth…

I don’t want to come off kind of wrong, but I really go with my craft and I take it very seriously…

I guess being 35 — soon to be 36, not 37, (19)76 (birth year), look it up — I put a lot of work into my craft. I take it very seriously. I always have, since ’95, since I’ve been able to come into the league and it’s almost like you guys are shocked. Like this ain’t what I do every day, like this ain’t what I was made for. It does come off disrespectful at times. I put a lot of work and time into this, and there are certain levels I expect from myself. …

I take this very seriously, so you guys calling me old, that number defies. You have no idea what you are doing when you say those ‘old’ comments. I appreciate that. I don’t read your columns, but it gets back to me.

The Celtics will play the Heat in the Eastern Conference semifinals where I hope they will shit upon the faces of D-Wade, Lebron, and that fucking loser Chris Bosh.

Go Celts!