KG KO'd for Knicks game

At some point we knew that Kevin Garnett’s style of play was going to get him in trouble. If you’ve watched all of the chest pounding, teeth-gritting, curse spewing, floor slapping, and baying at the moon that KG does during the game, you know that his energy level is ratcheted up at all times. Do you remember him screaming during the interview after he won the championship? This guy is clearly a loose cannon.

We knew it would come to this one day. So when I heard that the NBA had handed KG a one-game suspension for an incident involving Milwaukee Bucks center Andrew Bogut, I wasn’t shocked. I just always thought that when his on-court psychosis finally caught up to him there would be a bit more bloodshed. I mean, this was a “Manny Ramirez vs. Kevin Youkilis” backhand. Garnett didn’t even follow it up with the “Manny Ramirez vs. Jack McCormick” shove down. In my opinion the suspension was not deserved, but I’m certainly not surprised by it. I’m more shocked that the first time Garnett was suspended there were no hostages involved.

It looks like KG has been taking karate classes with Manny Ramirez. (AP Photo)

Bogut was certainly the instigator in this situation when he brought each hand down in an aggressive manor, landing a blow to the face on KG before catching a no-look swipe from Garnett and acting like Mr. Innocent after receiving his second technical foul and an ejection. It would be one thing if KG was looking at Bogut when he took a swing at him. If you take a look back at the game, Bogut was getting chippy with the Celtics front liners all night. He is a dirty player, just like every other Australian center who looks like he is Amish. Typical.

I have a feeling this is the Association’s way of punishing Kevin Garnett for all of his ferocious antics over the years. You never know. Maybe before Tuesday night’s game David Stern will present Garnett with the “Lifetime Insanity Award.”

There is no question that the suspension will hurt the C’s when they take on Mike D’Antoni and the Knicks at the Garden Tuesday night. The Knicks are scoring a ton of points and Boston couldn’t have picked a worse team to lose their defensive MVP. Even though it may have cost the C’s this time around, I certainly don’t want Kevin Garnett changing his demeanor whatsoever in light of this suspension. As Garnett goes, defensively, the Celtics go as well. I’d rather have the Big Ticket tiptoeing on the edge of insanity every game and being suspended once a year, than have him lumbering sedately up and down the floor with his mouth half open and drooling like the chief in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.” If the Celtics wanted a big man to do that they would have traded Al Jefferson for Eddy Curry.

The bottom line is, I don’t care if the Celtics lose by 40 against the Knicks with KG on the bench, they need to keep that chip on their shoulder if they want to play the kind of physical brand of basketball that led them to a championship last year. I hope when KG returns on Thursday he gets a technical in the first quarter to reset the tone for the team. It's not that I think KG will be a completely different player after a one-game suspension, but you never know. KG losing his edge is a bit far fetched, but remember, ANYTHING THING IS POSSIBLLLLLLEEEE!!!!!!!!!(sorry, I had to).

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