![]() ![]() “CP rubs people the wrong way,” said an East player, who spent most of his career playing in the West. In Chris Paul’s case, the veteran point guard is renowned for being an incessant talker with referees. “It was fun listening to him talk to himself and talk to the basket before games, getting in guys faces and saying I don’t know what,” said another West player. But I do remember his telling me my defense stinks, my whole game stinks.” “Right now, he doesn’t have any substance behind him. “He’s got no bite now,” an older West player said about Garnett, who is 39 and playing on a not-so-good Timberwolves team. Garnett, a 15-time All-Star, made the list based on his past glory days when he was known to talk so much trash on the court. “He does that to younger guys or guys he doesn’t respect.” You can’t hit that,’” an East player said. “Sometimes during a game and was guarding someone, he’d turn his back and said, ‘Go ahead and shoot that ball. “I’m thinking, ‘Yo, the game hasn’t even started yet.’” “When was in Boston and it was my rookie year, he walked over to me while I was stretching before the game and was like, ‘You’re about to get this work done on you, young fella,’” a West player said. Pierce’s verbal jab referred to Faried’s contract extension from the Nuggets. “When Paul played for the Wizards and they were up by one point and Kenneth Faried had two free throws to win, Paul yelled, ’60 million dollars! I don’t see it with this guy,’” said an Eastern Conference player. ![]() When Pierce was asked during his postgame interview whether he had called bank on his jumper that hit the backboard and went in for the Wizards’ victory over the Hawks, he uttered his famous “game” line and walked away without answering any other questions. To me, the effective trash-talkers are the ones who can talk people out of their game and Draymond does it all the time.” Draymond even talks trash in practice to his teammates.”Īn assistant coach on a West team said: “I feel like trash-talking is a dying tactic in the NBA, but Draymond is one of the best. “And then it wasn’t three minutes after that when Steph had that move on the baseline where he put CP in the ‘Matrix,’ had Chris falling all over the place on the court. He’s busting your ass every time we see you.’ “He said, ‘Steph used to be intimidated by you. “Last year, he was talking a gang of trash to Chris Paul,” a Western Conference head coach said. ![]()
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