This is exactly why I have no interest in getting a guy like Love here, no matter how good a player he might be. Sorry to say, but I'd rather root for a good group guy who work their buts off and play with a modest 'team first' attitude but get knocked out in the first or second round, rather than root for a group of guys who are good enough to contend but act like entitled whiny brats the entire way.
I don't care how many championships a group of guy might win, I can't respect players like this.
Kevin Love should retire and take up a career in Golf, or perhaps Lawn Bowls. He's been a whiny little brat pretty much his entire career and just doesn't seem to have the toughness to make it in a contact sport.
IT's response: "We can say the same thing. We're all men here. We don't need to cry...It is what it is. It's playoff basketball."
Haha love that quote!! Can't give IT a Tommy Point, so you get one for the quote!
Yeah, Love is clearly in the wrong to point out a dirty play that could, theoretically, cost him, and his team, the NBA title. Nobody else in the world would be doing that.
Well, except for pretty much every other human being on the planet.
It's one thing to say that a dirty play is dirty. To say that it was a foul, and that KO was being unnecessarily physical.
It's another thing entirely to claim that a player went out there and intentionally pulled your arm out of it's socket because he WANTED to injure you.
That's a disgraceful thing to say, and is exactly the type of comment I expect from a guy like Love, who has been an absolute whinger his entire career.
When Wade dislocated Rondo's arm, do I believe that he did that on purpose? Absolutely not. I believe that he pulled Rondo down on purpose (he was falling and clearly grabbed Rondo to try to stop his own fall), but do I believe that he was standing there thinking "This guy is frustrating me, I'm going to try and rip his arm out of it's socket"? Of course not. Was it a dirty play? Absolutely. He pulled Rondo down partially to stop his own fall, and probably partially to take one Celtic out of the play to give Miami the advantage - but I don't for a second believe he intended to hurt him.
In fact I think Rondo basically said the same thing. I'm pretty sure he said something along the lines of "it was a dirty play, but I don't think he intended to hurt me" or something.
Guys get hurt in the NBA, it happens...especially in the playoffs. I can't think of the last time I heard a guy say "I think he intended to injure me". That's just a horrible thing for a professional athlete to say about another.