After suffering a 109-86 beatdown by the Boston Celtics Tuesday night, Pistons forward Charlie Villanueva tweeted his displeasure with Kevin Garnett's trash talk during the game. He accused Garnett of calling him a "cancer patient".
Villanueva has alopecia universalis which is a condition that leaves him with no body hair including eyebrows and eyelashes. Villanueva said he was "pissed" because he knows people who have died from cancer and that Garnett shouldn't joke about it.
I appreciate Villanueva's concern for cancer patients. I've suffered significant and devastating loss in my family due to the cruelty of cancer. Perhaps Kevin Garnett was out of line for making jokes about a serious and often fatal illness.
However, Charlie Villanueva should man up and shut up. Tattling about what somebody said to you on the court is as soft as it gets. Imagine Dennis Rodman saying, "Charles Barkley called me a faggot and that's not nice." Not even Shawn Bradley would ever have said, "Gary Payton called me the albino saltine and that's mean to albinos."
Fans don't need to know if Garnett talked about Villanueva's mama, if he said his girl is ugly or that he plays like a palsy patient on the court. If he didn't like what Garnett said, he should've done more in his 33 minutes to keep Garnett from scoring a game high 22 points.
Villanueva finished with only one foul. He easily could've used a foul to bang Garnett and tell him "That was for cancer patients you chemo breath motherfucker." The game was a blowout and the Pistons are 0-4. A good hard flagrant foul might have sent a message that at least one player besides Ben Wallace is ready to go to war for Detroit.
Villanueva also tweeted, "KG talks alot of crap, he's prob never been in a fight, I would love to get in a ring with him, I will expose him." He had his chance to swing on KG and didn't do a damn thing. He waited until he got home and tweeted about it.
Tonight the Pistons play the Atlanta Hawks. I hope Villanueva isn't up all night tweeting, "Josh Smith said I cry like a bitch and dammit, dogs have feelings too."
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