competitive sports are cruel. In a arena like NBA, where the winner is the king, players will inevitably have disputes or fights due to emotional and physical provocations. The way to compete for the championship seems to have to be full of flesh and blood to be happy. Whether we want to admit it or not, they are part of the competition and audiences are happy about it.
However, everything has a bottom line. When small complaints turn into serious conflicts, they often no longer have to do with basketball; when players feel hatred, they will naturally become thorns in the other party's eyes. In NBA history, many similar cases have appeared. We have selected ten pairs of close friends who are well-known to the audience. Let’s take a look.
1. Zach Randolph and Kendrick Perkins (Kendrick Perkins)
The feud between Randolph and Perkins has been around for a long time. As early as 2011, Randolph said that he believed the latter was "too slow" on the court, and this remark also aroused Perkins' dissatisfaction. In the subsequent bloody battle between Grizzlies and Thunder , the two were both expelled from the referee due to a verbal conflict. After the game, Randolph, who was furious, did not give up, but continued to provoke his opponent outside the locker room. In the end, the league fined him $25,000, and the two became enemies since then. In addition, Randolph also said in an interview that he was a good fighter, and if both sides really started, he would not be worried. It seems that the relationship between the two is indeed very bad.
2. Kevin Garnett and Charlie Villanueva (Charlie Villanueva)
Garnett is a famous tough guy in the NBA arena. His unrestrained and bloody style can undoubtedly greatly help the team on the field, but in real life, his unrestrained personality has also brought him a lot of trouble.
Garnett had an argument with the opponent in a game against the Pistons (hidden hair loss caused by hair loss in his whole body) during a game against the Pistons. After the game, Vilanueva said that he was very angry because Garnett made a vicious personal attack on him and even called him a "cancer patient". Vilanueva believed that the latter's remarks were extremely inappropriate. "There are many people who have lost their lives because of cancer, and he regards this as a joke." Although Garnett later explained that the other party misunderstood him, he just wanted to express that Vilanueva "is a cancer to the team and the entire league." In any case, such words are inappropriate.
3. Kevin Durant (Kevin Durant) and Dwight Howard (Dwight Howard)
Durant's calm and gentle temperament is very rare in the fierce NBA. He rarely clashes with others on the field, but focuses more on the game and speaks with strength. During Durant's time for the Thunder, he met the Rockets led by Howard, while Durant was on the verge of injury. Just when the score between the two sides was in a stalemate, Howard, the Rockets' center forward, performed very poorly, and he kept talking with Durant, who was sitting on the bench. Faced with the other party's provocation, the Du Shao, who could not bear it, finally retorted and called him a complete "soft otter".
4. Kevin Garnett and Camelon ·Anthony (Carmelo Anthony)
That's right, Garnett and his violent temper are in trouble again, but this time it's Cameron Anthony who is eager to protect his wife. At that time, Garnett was still the center of the Celtics. He had an argument with Anthony in the game against Knicks . After the game, Anthony even ran to the Celtics bus to ask the former for an explanation.
It is said that during the game that night, Garnett humiliated Anthony's wife Lara Vasquez while squirting trash talk, saying that it "tastes like a donut". It was this sentence that completely angered Anthony, which led to a series of subsequent conflicts. Yes, this time Garnett was indeed a bit too much.
5. Kobe ·Bryant and Smash Parker (Smush Parker)
In fact, there is no personal grudge between Kobe and Smash Parker, but Kobe is very dissatisfied with the latter's ability and said that he is very bad and is not worthy of playing in the NBA at all (it turns out that the black Mamba is so cruel). Of course, Smarsh didn't have any good feelings for Kobe, so the relationship between the two has been relatively tense.
6. Charles Oakley (Charles Oakley) and Charles Barkley (Charles Barkley)
The NBA arena in the past is much tougher now, and the referee whistles are not that frequent. Oakley and Barkley's beams formed at that time. Whenever the two meet on the court, they always look like they want to kill each other. To this day, Oakley often expresses his dislike for Barkley on social platforms, but Barkley doesn't seem to take him seriously: "He is not that important to me, so I don't care at all." In fact, this is not bad. It's better to talk to him than to actually do something.
7. Gilbert Arenas and Galvalis Crittenton (Javaris Crittenton)
Arenas and Crittenton were both players of Washington Wizards. The two sides had a dispute over playing cards and claimed to teach each other a lesson on the training ground. What's more terrifying is that both admitted that they "have a gun."
Former Wizards player Caron Butler (Caron Butler) once mentioned this "dressing room gun" incident in his autobiography. He described the incident in detail from a first-person perspective, which should be regarded as the best example of hatred escalation into violence.
8. Tony Parker and Brent Barry (Brent Barry)
Parker and Barry once played for Spurs and swept the Cavaliers with the team in 2007 to win the NBA championship. However, just after the media revealed that Parker had an affair with Barry's wife Erin Barry, the relationship between the two officially broke down.
Although Parker denied that he had physical contact with Erin, he was unable to refute the long-standing text-flirting behavior between the two. In the end, the scandal not only caused the shattering of the two marriages, but also caused the friendship between teammates to collapse.
9. The relationship between Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O’Neal (Shaquille O’Neal)
OK has always been a topic of relish among the media and fans. The two have worked together to create their Purple Gold Dynasty, but they still cannot coexist due to various reasons. In the end, Angel City chose Kobe, and O'Neal had to be forced to go away from Miami.
Although the two have lost the grudges that have been deposited for a long time after many years, the script can no longer be changed. They could have brought more glory to Los Angeles, but in the end they had no choice but to part ways, which is really sad.
10. Michael Jordan and Isiah Thomas
At the 1992 Olympics, the " Dream Team " led by Jordan and Magic Johnson amazed the world. Everyone also witnessed the friendship between these two greatest basketball players in history. However, careful audiences found that there was no Isiah Thomas in this team. Why is this?
In fact, the grudge between Jordan and Thomas can be traced back to the All-Star Game in 1985. It is said that Thomas disliked the fledgling Jordan back then, so he deliberately joined forces with other stars to not pass the ball to him (Thomas himself denied this), which led to Jordan always resentment about the "freeze incident" in his subsequent career. Finally, he waited for his chance to revenge. With Jordan's insistence, Thomas was unable to enter the Olympics with the Dream Team. In his Hall of Fame speech, Jordan also said that he would never forget those who once disrespected him. This thing tells us: The God of Basketball, you can't afford to offend me.
Note: The information in the article comes from ESPN and NBA
(Translation: Yang Yalan)
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