You can see him actually start sneaking up behind Bayless, then actually go down to his hands and knees. Then the camera cuts away and all you see is him from the back, still down there. By the time it picks up again Bayless is dribbling upcourt and Garnett is vertical again. You can hear the announcers talk about it.

I do not believe he came within 3-4 feet of Bayless. I don’t know if he said or vocalized anything. I do know it’s a cheap, classless move to pull on a rookie from a team you’re beating soundly. I do know it was unusual enough for the commentators to be incredulous. I wish we had better film as well.

In any case, though, the proper move is to shut your yap and get your butt back down the court to defend. As I said in the recap, pull that crap back in the day and you had better be some kind of tough guy.

—Dave

on ESPN, they said something to the effect of “Garnett just crawled up on Bayless. I’ve never seen anything like it.” The other announcer responded with something along the lines of KG having done it to Calderon, to which guy #1 responded that KG seems to have a thing for point guards…

I just heard the words; my mental image was of KG (“crawled up”) using Bayless’ shorts, jersey, limbs to pull himslef up off the floor after falling down. That was just a fleeting image, and a wee bit surreal to boot. I knew that wasn’t what happend, and with your game recap, things made sense.

I remember last year Joel and Martell (?) had a scuffle during practice. It served as a cathartic/motivating moment for the team, and that scuffle helped jump-starte the 13-game win streak.
Sometimes it takes a negative experience to really light a team’s fire. Maybe this game (which, all in all, is not a big deal) will be that kind of experience.
Either way, I completely agree that it’s time four our guys to start standing up for themselves, and for each other. We’re young, and there won’t be any Sunday brunch omlettes until we break an egg or two (speaking figuratively :)

The double standard is terrible. Also, is J-Rex a guy that needs taunting. If anyone was going to tear someones throat out, it’d be Bay.

because I would get banned forever, so I will just say this: Classless. How come, when Sheed used to be passionate about basketball, everybody said he was immature, (well the refs T-ed him up a lot, not so with KG) but Garnett gets away with the most obvious, attention grabbing (It always seems to be about the attention with him), taunts and everybody loves the “fire” he plays with? Bayless should have kicked him in the face.

As much as I’d like to see Garnett kick a swift boot to the face, the second a blazer does that, it makes sportscenter’s top story and suddenly we’re back to being the jailblazers.

but a backup PF who can grab, hack, and lay a hit on someone. A tough guy who doesn’t let the Blazers get bullied.

Could you imagine if he did something like that? Instant T the second he goes on all 4’s. Its BS how the league has double standards. Someone already mentioned that but I just wanted to repeat the thoughts, because I think its so ridiculous! I want to see him pick up Kobe or lebron like that.