Kevin Garnett's Inferiority Complex

So on my way from work to school in between the two Oakton "campuses" (if you could really call them that), I turned on ESPN 1000 on Wednesday and heard a pretty good interview by Waddle and Silvy (the second best Chicago sports radio team after the Saloon of course) with both Derrick Rose and Joakim Noah. The interview's podcast itself is on their homepage and I would recommend any Bulls and hoops fans in general to check it out on their homepage, http://sports.espn.go.com/chicago/radio/story?page=lwal_archive

The most interesting part of the interview was when Noah made it clear that he does not like KG at all. It's not at all too surprising considering how intense both of them are and the sheer madness that took place between the Celtics and the Bulls back in the 2009 playoffs.

But what did surprise me (well, only a little bit quite frankly) was when in the interview, Noah mentioned that KG, a master of mind games and trash talking, really seems to go after the "young guys and the Euros."

I honestly don't understand why I'm so surprised at hearing this from Joakim Noah. I guess maybe it's just the fact that one of my suspicions has been confirmed. Just look at the way he went after LaMarcus Aldridge and Jerred Bayless, two rookies with Portland. Or how about his brush-ups with Jose Calderon, Zaza Pachulia, and Danilo Galinari (the latter one btw was Galinari's fault for not paying attention), all of whom if you couldn't tell by their names are foreign players.

It also reminded me of a recent incident when KG apparently called another NBA player, Charlie Villanueva, a "cancer patient." If you don't know, Villanueva suffers from alopecia, which stunts hair growth.

It says a lot about a guy like KG, a player who viciously smack talks the rookies and the foreign players, a guy who thought it was all right to call a player "a cancer patient." Let's not forget, this is the same guy who went after Anthony Peeler, a guy who was ten inches shorter than him. Peeler nearly took KG's head off.

It's obvious that when KG was on Minnesota, he was suffering from some sort of a complex. His peers like Kobe and Tim Duncan were winning titles like nobody's business while Garnett and the T-Wolves were going nowhere, choking away title runs like they were the NBA's version of the Cubs (It pains me to type that btw).

Now that KG is on Boston, it seems like his antics are just getting worse. Since he won the title (yeah ONE title compared to Kobe's five and MJ's six) and is on a consistent championship contender with the Beantown boys, he got all uppity and thinks he owns the league now. He's like some bald, ugly, carcass-eating vulture, preying on the ones he knows he can pick on.

Or maybe, as the Peeler fight showed, he's always just been a punk.

Cheers,

DC