Kevin Garnett Gets Angry At Paul Pierce After He Says International Players Run Hoops
there are times when you can tell KG skipped college
Let’s be real he skipped high school too, academically at least
Lowkey the more kids that get put into the pro basketball pipeline from a young age the more we’re gonna get absolute dumbasses of NBA players
And kids looking up to them
We have a young superstar getting absolutely scorched on here every day for ‘pretending’ to be an intellectual.
And all bro was doing was reading books 💀, I guess he shoulda been just using it as a prop like a certain fake intellectual.
Do you want the appearance of being a reader, without the drawbacks of becoming nerd?
Try LeTerature
Wemby reads Sanderson who I very much enjoy(he reads other stuff too I know). But none of us are reading Sanderson to seem like an intellectual lol
He was drawing in a private park with his siblings and they called him performative
Yeah that shit was weird. Like some weirdo sniping pics from behind a Trashcan but Wemby is the odd one?
22 year olds with a career need to be reading academic journals or philosophy texts ONLY or they’re low brow fraudsters ofc
At this point, I’m not 100% sure I blame them. It’s a lottery with the worst of odds, but we’re close to having career bench warmers making $100M+. Superstars are guaranteed billionaires now. Even impact college players with half a brain cell can be financial advisors, insurance salesman, and real estate agents & make a killing off their local brand.
Worse is a lot of them play for “diploma mill” schools that are, in essence, athletic development centers.
I always think that at this point college is legit a professional sport in its own right.
It’s absolutely an amateur feeder league, now.
Remember when NBA players had actual intelligence and eloquence like Kareem or Mutombo.
It’s always been that way. There’s a reason “dumb jock” is the stereotype
When Timmy and KG were on the court against each other, it was clear who had the education in psychology. “Almost…”
Last week when Amare came out and sputtered his stupid shit I couldn’t comment on it because of yet another ban on my account, but I wanted to type out, “This is exactly what’d I’d expect to hear from a guy who went to 6 high schools in four years, and also thought bathing in wine helped his knees.”
If you can’t get a 15 on your SAT to be eligible for college, that’s on more than just the education system. ESPECIALLY if you’re a top athlete, you know you need that 15 to get your ticket to college. Both of them got lucky that they were able to go pro right away. I feel that’s why a lot of these kids end up at that bullshit Overtime Elite league, or all that shit Lamelo did when he was younger. They just quit trying at all in school and nobody holds them accountable.
“Name an NFL kh#wli*f for each NBA player”
Man I still remember this lmao
“kwiviliff”
To be fair he has dyslexia
of the mouth?
Yes, the diagnosis refers to reading but you can in fact mess up speaking too.
TIL more about a learning disability, from /nba of all places. Or is that apt?
I have dyslexia and mispronounce words at times.
However I don’t think that was the case with this one 😅
The man skipped out on an education around 13 let’s be serious
Times?? Like 24/7/365. He skipped college due to his low SAT. Also all this fake tough guy stuff is pathetic.
And aside from basketball, didn’t intellectually or emotionally progress.
Really? Bro sounds like my professor at Harvard
Yeah this aint 2 of those times. Hes right. TOP 5 players might be international, but as a whole, international players aren’t better. Someone other than the U.S.A would win the Olympics
Paul Pierce has that “I guess bro” look on his face
Outside of the top 6 best players in the NBA right now,
WHO DO THEY HAVE?
I think that heavily diminishes your argument, KG
Still a lot of really good international players outside the top 6 like Siakam, OG, Hartenstein, Markanen and Wagner.
Assuming Giannis is in the top 6, on top of your guys, you’ve also got Embiid, Gobert (Frenchman), Avdija, Sengun.
It’s definitely not a 50-50 split between American vs international players yet, but KG still perpetuating the “non-Americans are soft” stereotype.
The same thing he said about Pau, back in the day and Pau got his revenge in 2010 and had 19-18-4 on KG in game 7.
Embiid
Kind of funny that Embiid played for the US at the Olympics
It has been America’s strength for 250 years. We’ll take your best and brightest. If they want to work hard and contribute, we’ll make them Americans.
Yes and I hope that will be the case again. Because right now it seems we don’t want them anymore. But immigrants are our greatest strength.
America still gets and wants immigrants lol. America also wants stronger borders to actually know who’s coming in. Y’all are so weird with narratives. It’s like y’alls biggest enemy is logic. What’s there to gain for always making assumptions that are so incredibly wrong?
Specifically it’s been the strength of the university system post WW2… but we’ve completely thrown that away know. Just in the last 2 years we’ve seen dramatic drops at the grad school level
Not saying I disagree with your overall point, but I don’t think I’d include OG on that list. I know he was born in England and has a strong connection there, but he’s lived in the US since he was like 4 years old.
Hukporti
Huk tuah
I think KG coming at it from a country vs country perspective (e.g. Slovenia and France he mentioned). So he’s right, no country can stack up to USA still. However to as the Truth says, those “exceptions” are adding up now and they’re the top players overall.
Also a lot of the American players are not playing in the hood and likely wouldn’t want to since many of them don’t come from that life anymore. I’ve heard that’s part of the reason they’ve gotten worse as they don’t play outside anymore and learn how to go against random bullshit and learn from it.
Pierce has said some stupid shit lately. KGs take makes those sound tame.
That’s that “You got it bro” reaction
The blazededest.
Definitely one o those cases u start off tryna have a harmless convo then it just turns into “alright bruh, I don’t even care enough at this point, u doin too much” lol
He’s funny to watch as a character but I absolutely could not spend any fucking amount of time around KG
When he was on Inside the NBA, they literally kept him in another room separated from the main guys.
Pacing around his cage like a lion, ready to bite anyone who comes to close to the bars.
Never forget this moment.
“I gotta get this”
lmaooooo
This was a weird thing to watch first thing in the morning
KG added to that moment with the adlibs lmao
omg, wtf is this. 😂
Don’t let him anywhere near your opals either
Why would you show me this if I couldn’t have it???!
Both KG and Pierce have become difficult to listen to since they retired. KG was probably someone you had to mentally prepare to be around even before he retired
“Someone you had to mentally prepare to be around”
Yeah we all know someone like that don’t we.
And if we’re honest with ourselves we recognize sometimes it may be other people having to mentally prepare to be around us. :-)
It’s funny when they’re together. Especially if pierce isn’t sober
Not many people remember this but on Realgm KG gained a rep for hating Euros back in the 2000’s. Watch him go after Calderon here.
https://youtu.be/rgPXrDq82Rs?is=fkqBDImJpPbrQYCb
Specifically, Euros that were quite a bit smaller than him. I’m pretty sure that if he’d tried that sort of shit on someone like Nikola Pekovic, he would have died.
Not the first time I’ve heard it implied or outright stated that KG is fake tough
Well yeah, Pek is a literal gangster lol
His story about tim duncan’s trash talk is so damn funny tho
I thought he was funny af in Uncut Gems but I get the sense there was really no emoting needed for the role.
He’s got a point cuz I don’t know any decent hooper from Sylvania neither.
Mikal Bridges is from PennSylvania
It sounds like Transylvania and that’s cool
What’s a word that starts with Pork
- UPINE!
My 2nd favorite Sylvanian hooper Goran Dragic
he’s going to get boned over here
check out these guys they’re animals
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Small .They got hops tho
It’s the neighboring country to Lativia
Look at Tingis Pingis man, so inspirational.
I thought he was shortening Pennsylvania to ‘sylvania as in “think of all the great players out of Pennsylvania alone!” And then I thought “huh, there must be a bunch of pro’s who came out of there, I don’t know that.” Then I read this
I guarantee someone in a Sylvania factory can hoop
Yeah but I really need them to pay attention to making my replacement headlight bulbs instead.
Vlad’s pretty good, although I don’t know if he’ll go to the NBA without Isabella
Vlad von carstein is like 3500 years old, the Sylvanians can’t expect this old blood to keep putting the team on his back. Some of these new bloodline vamps gotta step up so he can load manage with Izzy
Can’t rely on Manfred. Dudes a team cancer. The GM needs to trade him for an alliance with the high elves asap.
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Fr even Bron wasn’t expected to carry that load, and he’s only 41 smh
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How the hell we supposed to win this shit. It’s me and 4 goddamn skeletons. I’m controlling them too. We got a mf giant bat as the 6th man. We’re fuckin cooked.
After W invented Czechoslavia, Sylvania dosen’t sound that bad.
“Put one of em in any hood they gonna get boned”
Dawg even Jonas Valanciunas would bone anybody on any non-NBA court short of pulling out a switch
I wouldn’t fuck with any of those boys from Montenegro or Serbia tbh. Some of these mf grew up in a literal war zone.
It’s not just the war. Slavs are hardy fucking people in general.
Valanciunas is from Lithuania tho.
Wrong. He is from Sylvania. All of them are, didn’t you listen?
Baltics and Balkans although different, share a lot of traits. Being hardy unrelenting and strong being a few of them
The USSR and first 10-15 years afterwards were incredibly rough, so it makes sense
But like these dudes from Serbia, like where there was a gnarly ass war going on in the 90s when they were growing up, are also not as fucking soft as KG makes them out to be. Yes, we understand life is hard in the hood, but dudes like Jokic have pure ice water in their veins man. Jonas valanciunas, Steven Adam’s (not Europe but still international), it’s not like these guys are just soft as fuck or something.
Yea fr them Europeans don’t play. The difference is that they don’t disrespect people for no reason or have a fragile ego.
If people like Adams or Valanciunas had Dillon Brooks/Draymond Green tendencies, we might actually see someone get carted off the court
Theres an old african saying. Barking dogs seldom bite 👊
That’s a common saying pretty much everywhere
uhhh, we do, thugs are thugs, no matter the part of the world tbh
There’s strength, then there’s big man euro strength
The only one soft here is KG let’s be honest.
Depends. Is someone pointing a Glock at him or not?
What is KG’s problem lol
He is traumatized since he bullied Gasol in his first games and then Gasol put him on his place
Don’t forget Dirk torturing him for years in head to head matchups including sweeping him in the playoffs
HE SAID IT IN GERMAN
Not even Jose Calderon respected KG lmao
He wants Shai to hoop in the hood against his cousins
Do they have refs in the hood cause if not then what are we doing
can’t fall on an asphalt court too
He’s a Xenophobe, can we not just call it exactly what it is
Can we not act like being a Team USA homer is being xenophobic? Dude has praised Jokic and Wemby all season. Like he’s delusional about International depth, but you’re entitled to think people are trash even if they are not. The pearl clutching is crazy
but you’re entitled to think people are trash even if they are not
If you genuinely think people outside your country “are trash even if theyre not” and its not xenophobia, then Im not sure what is lol
Dude he’s not, what the fuck? He talks that same way about literally everything, and Wemby is like his favorite player in the league who he has spent time with coaching and shit.
He’s very stupid. Legitimately.
Wimby and Shea dominating the league
He could have just went to the everybody is better than JB until it’s time to be better than JB route
why do some nba players get so sensitive towards europeans(Draymond, Garnett, Dickerson) it ain’t that deep bro just dont be xenophobic
This is how KG talks about everything. Ignore the tone
lol I can’t yo, his intensity Kills me everytime. Still my fav clip is when they had some young contortionists dancing during a sports segment and he’s just vibing like ‘ayyy, ayy, whaaat, whaat’ 🤣
A lot of americans believe the sport belongs to them. They see europeans as guys that take spots that should go to americans. And when the top 5 players are all foreigners it might make it a little bit more sensative.
I think this is less of an American thing and more of a black American thing with Kevin. Black Americans have dominated basketball and football for decades in a way that was relevant to the advancement of black Americans in society throughout American history. Even prior to integration of major sports leagues, it was held closely by the black community that sports were closer to fair competitions than it was possible to get anywhere else (that had white people). Pro sports were some of the only spaces for wealthy black men period for multiple generations. Think back to the 80’s when one of the bad boy pistons said Larry bird would just be another hooper if he was black. We know Larry was nice, but the attitude that the NBA is “for us because they can’t deny us” has been there for generations. Definitely doesn’t help that most owners were/are racist white guys. Even now it’s become a community where these NBA players can understand eachother on a different level because of the common backgrounds. That’s come downhill to manifest as xenophobia as basketball has become global. Which sucks.
Barkley and Shaq also had very xrbopjobix tendencies though those have definitely calmed down as the big man renaissance they were praying for was brought to them by Jokic, Embiid, et al
Could argue that’s why the dream team was so good tho. There was a whole reason they think this way - and when they won the gold it was expected.
The USA all stars nearly lost to one Jokic and one Wemby
Racism
He’s right tho. International game might be top heavy but USA overall has the most talent.
Who tf is Dickerson
kd
getoffmydickerson
Is this how he reacted after Dirk swept him
Never heard of Silvania before.
I’m gonna ask who’s the goat player from Sylvania the next time I argue with 12 year olds on IG that they don’t have elite ball knowledge
Best hooper out of Sylvania is probably Vlad Von Carstein.
shame Mannfred’s bitch ass wasn’t half the baller he was
I heard that right on the eve of Vlad’s biggest game against Altdorf, Manfred was leaking his secret plays to the enemy. Vlad should never have let that team cancer onto the team.
Isabella would carry the wnba ngl
🧛🩸 - he only played the night games
It’s a headlight company
This kind of response is what happens when you hit someone in their soft spot.
Like the soft spot on a babies head?
Yep
Georgios Papagiannis walked so Michael Jordan could run
Dirk is rent free in KG’s head.
KG be doing too much
Somebody get him out of cold Boston and give that Mf a pina colada on a beach or something
KG you gotta chill my guy it ain’t that serious
KG has become a caricature of himself.
yeah, hes giving off massive “angry old man yelling at the sky” energy here lmao
Just one of those guys who unfortunately can’t turn off that switch, he’s almost always too intense like this
Like bro calm down and talk normally, Pierce can’t even get his point across
When he was like this when he was 26 years old and 19 years old too He’s just an incredibly angry dude.
Why is KG so close to the damn screen
Old heads be doing that, they think they gotta get closer to the phone/computer camera to be heard lol
My dad does that shit too
KG is a lunatic. Always has been. He’s lucky he was good at basketball.
These dudes would not be friends if they didn’t win a ring together lol
Is this what white people were like when black folks entered the league?
No, they broke into Bill Russel’s home and took a shit on his bed.
Don’t be giving KG any ideas now
If yugoslavia was still a country they’d have a team on par with the US.
And also, kind of to KGs point, not remotely soft at all. Growing up in that area in the 90s or 80s or whatever is AT LEAST as tough as any hood in the US. AT LEAST.
If USA went through a literal war full of mass bombings, genocide and other crimes against humanity and someone was trying to claim a slum somewhere in the first world is worse to live in they would fucking lose it
Paul Pierce looks exhausted with KG
What getting swept by a German does to a man
I don’t even have the Audio on and I see that he’s tweaking over this topic. Idk what’s wrong with him
He’s legitimately stupid. Plus he’s the kind of person who sees no problem with being aggressively stupid. It’s not a good combination.
It’s the truth and you can tell by AAU ball. The love of the game is gone because of the internet and money. International players play the game the right way from a young age.
After Bron, Steph, KG, Harden are gone, the USA is in for a reality check given how badly these new kids lack fundamentals and don’t know how to play winning team basketball
He’s always hated the Euro players.
He’s right though. We’re supposed to lose the olympics because Wemby is great, but who are his teammates going to be? We can say that about every other country. Our tenth best player will be better than almost everyone else’s second best players.
I tend to agree with you, the top tier international players are better since they have dominated the top 5/top 10 rankings the last 6+ years (Jokic, Giannis, SGA, Luka, Wemby, Embiid until recently playing for USA)
But outside of the top tier “#1 option guy”, Americans still dominate the regular stars and role-players.
Luka doesn’t have a team that scares you in terms of Slovenia, same with Giannis and Greece or Wemby and France, or even SGA and Canada (they may be the exception since they have second and third tier star caliber players).
Yeah like let’s be honest the perspective of the discussion is so warped by USA dominance. We’re comparing a single country to the entire world because no other country comes close in terms of talent
Can you get CTE from basketball? 🤔
Only if you aggressively headbutt the backboard stanchion as a pregame ritual, but who would do that?
KG is missing Pierce’s point, he’s just saying at the top tier / #1 option level, Americans should still be better but they aren’t (guys like Wemby, Jokic, SGA, Giannis, Luka, etc dominate the top 5 rankings lately)
Obviously with second and third tier stars, Americans are still better than international second and third tier stars
Nothing like sports to bring out some good ole civic nationalism 🇺🇸
Dude has the maturity of a five-year-old.
My first time courtside the Timberwolves were visiting and KG made a nasty dunk, turned around, and yelled directly at me. I was like 10 and it scared the shit out of me.
SAME TEAM GUYS! I buy both of their arguments. KG: “Per capita the US is better at BBall” PP: “International has some of the best top end players”. Both correct.
I mean USA is still top dog when it comes to basketball. I hate when people say “and it’s not even close,” but in this instance it really isn’t close.
You don’t think the average NBA player is cooking people on any court in any hood?
Can KG go 3 seconds without saying the N word?
I mean except Shai,Luka,Giannis,Jokic and wemby
Where do you guys thinking the next best foreigner is in the list of best players currently?
Edit: Hmm ok guys, I didn’t realise but even the tier below the superstar level is quite stacked when it comes to foreign talent
But what if you move a level below that.
Technically KAT (yes I’m aware he’s very American, but he plays for the Dominican Republic, hence the ‘technically’) who’s inside the top-20. Otherwise Murray, OG, Deni, Siakam all float around 20-25
Embid for the 30 games a year he is healthy
Most well paid part time employee in the league.
That’s 5 of the top 7 players in the league though.
After them there is a gap, true. Jamal Murray probably, OG, siakam, Deni Avdija, Sengun, the ghost of Joel Embiid
I think there needs to be a distinction between foreign born players who were brought up in foreign systems (Giannis, Jokic, Luka etc.) and ones who were still brought up in the American system (Shai, Embiid, OG etc).
Embiid moved to the US at 16, same with SGA, I think you’re reaching there. OG, I see your point.
Didn’t Shai move to the US at 14 specifically to get better at basketball?
I’m not saying KG is right here, just bringing up that it’s a little different with SGA.
Kg making s fool of himself again.
Can’t name another French player than Wemby? Dudes never heard of Gobert? This dude is paid to comment on basketball?
Also, what does playing on a neighborhood court have to do with NBA players?
Garnett is ridiculous and wrong. The best players in the NBA now are all foreign born.
KG ain’t know for his intellect.
They call him Rage Kage for a reason dawg
Just for the record, I noticed this yesterday. Despite all the recent sturm and drang about the alleged international takeover, ESPN’s current mock has only 7-ish internationals selected in 60 picks.
By way of comparison, the 2000 draft had more.
Why’s he dropping so many n-words?
He right. These countries got one guy that can hoop during the Olympics.
BONED!!!! 😂😂😂😂
PP: 😳