Kevin Garnett lifted his arms and chuckled in a muffled, yet comprehensible display of disgust. A rookie official’s errant whistle again set off one of the NBA’s fastest ticking time bombs, and The Big Ticket did all he could to avoid a verbal explosion. Somehow, he stopped his own detonation and another laced-with-profanity tirade.
His restraint was remarkable, as was the egregious nature of the referee’s mistake. The wimpy chest-to-chest bump that resulted in a tweet would not have been an acceptable foul in a peewee high school division. Yet, Garnett’s reaction was deemed too outrageous for this preseason tilt at Madison Square Garden that turned from a pro basketball tune-up to the worst example of deceitful, shameful sports legislation. He was teed up faster than a ball at a NASCAR charity golf event.
Even this, according to league czar David Stern’s new mandate, crossed the line of what ticket-buying spectators can stomach. The commissioner wants fans to believe that his “respect for the game,” crybaby crackdown appeases those fed up with players’ post-foul call performances. The complaining and dram ...
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